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Pedro Montoya is affiliated with the University of the Balearic Islands in Spain and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and neuroscience. Their research primarily intersects areas such as cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, pharmacology, pediatrics, perinatology, child health, and physiology.

The scientist's main topics of work include:

  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Pain mechanisms and treatments
  • Pain management and placebo effect
  • Cerebral palsy and movement disorders
  • Heart rate variability and autonomic control
  • Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome research
  • Pediatric pain management techniques

Pedro Montoya has published in several frequent venues, illustrating their research focus and collaborations. These venues include:

  • Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Children
  • Research in Developmental Disabilities
  • Brain Imaging and Stimulation

Selected recent papers by Pedro Montoya reflect an emphasis on pain perception, cognitive mechanisms in pain, and chronic pain management. Representative publications include:

  • "Age-Related Changes in Pain Perception Are Associated With Altered Functional Connectivity During Resting State," 2020, Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
  • "Distraction from pain: The role of selective attention and pain catastrophizing," 2020, European Journal of Pain
  • "Self-Regulation of SMR Power Led to an Enhancement of Functional Connectivity of Somatomotor Cortices in Fibromyalgia Patients," 2020, Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • "Chronic Pain Diagnosis Using Machine Learning, Questionnaires, and QST: A Sensitivity Experiment," 2020, Diagnostics
  • "An Educational and Exercise Mobile Phone-Based Intervention to Elicit Electrophysiological Changes and to Improve Psychological Functioning in Adults With Nonspecific Chronic Low Back Pain (BackFit App): Nonrandomized Clinical Trial," 2022, JMIR mhealth and uhealth

Collaborations play a significant role in Pedro Montoya's research output. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Inmaculada Riquelme
  • Álvaro Sabater-Gárriz
  • Ana María González-Roldán
  • Juan L. Terrasa
  • Marian van der Meulen

Best Publications

  • Activation of Cortical and Cerebellar Motor Areas during Executed and Imagined Hand Movements: An fMRI Study

    Martin Lotze;Pedro Montoya;Michael Erb;Ernst Hülsmann

  • Effects of Regional Anesthesia on Phantom Limb Pain Are Mirrored in Changes in Cortical Reorganization

    Niels Birbaumer;Werner Lutzenberger;Pedro Montoya;Wolfgang Larbig

  • Heartbeat evoked potentials (HEP): topography and influence of cardiac awareness and focus of attention ☆

    Pedro Montoya;Rainer Schandry;Achim Müller

  • Electroencephalographic Patterns in Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review of the Literature

    Eulália Silva dos Santos Pinheiro;Fernanda Costa de Queirós;Pedro Montoya;Cleber Luz Santos

  • Disrupted functional connectivity of the pain network in fibromyalgia.

    Ignacio Cifre;Carolina Sitges;Daniel Fraiman;Miguel Ángel Muñoz

  • Influence of social support and emotional context on pain processing and magnetic brain responses in fibromyalgia.

    Pedro Montoya;Wolfgang Larbig;Christoph Braun;Hubert Preissl

  • Neurofeedback and brain-computer interface clinical applications.

    Niels Birbaumer;Ander Ramos Murguialday;Cornelia Weber;Pedro Montoya

  • Event-related brain potentials and the processing of cardiac activity

    Rainer Schandry;Pedro Montoya

  • On the relation between cardiodynamics and heartbeat perception.

    Rainer Schandry;Michael Bestler;Pedro Montoya

  • The cortical somatotopic map and phantom phenomena in subjects with congenital limb atrophy and traumatic amputees with phantom limb pain

    Pedro Montoya;Karin Ritter;Ellena Huse;Wolfgang Larbig

  • Abnormal Pressure Pain, Touch Sensitivity, Proprioception, and Manual Dexterity in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

    Inmaculada Riquelme;Samar M. Hatem;Pedro Montoya

  • Pain sensitivity in fibromyalgia is associated with catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) gene

    M. Martínez-Jauand;C. Sitges;V. Rodríguez;A. Picornell

  • Behavioral and neurophysiological evidence for altered processing of anxiety-related words in panic disorder

    P. Pauli;W. Dengler;G. Wiedemann;P. Montoya

  • The relationship of phantom limb pain to other phantom limb phenomena in upper extremity amputees.

    Pedro Montoya;Wolfgang Larbig;Norbert Grulke;Herta Flor

  • Abnormal affective modulation of somatosensory brain processing among patients with fibromyalgia.

    Pedro Montoya;Carolina Sitges;Manuel García-Herrera;Raúl Izquierdo

  • Reduced brain habituation to somatosensory stimulation in patients with fibromyalgia

    Pedro Montoya;Carolina Sitges;Manuel García-Herrera;Alfonso Rodríguez-Cotes

  • Altered associative learning and emotional decision making in fibromyalgia

    César Walteros;Juan P. Sánchez-Navarro;Miguel A. Muñoz;Jose M. Martínez-Selva

  • Developmental changes in somatosensory processing in cerebral palsy and healthy individuals.

    Inmaculada Riquelme;Pedro Montoya

  • Altered processing of pain-related information in patients with fibromyalgia.

    Pedro Montoya;Paul Pauli;Anil Batra;Georg Wiedemann

  • Cortical correlates of semantic classical conditioning.

    Pedro Montoya;Wolfgang Larbig;Friedemann Pulvermüller;Herta Flor

Frequent Co-Authors

Niels Birbaumer
Niels Birbaumer University of Tübingen
Herta Flor
Herta Flor Heidelberg University
Rainer Schandry
Rainer Schandry Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Paul Pauli
Paul Pauli University of Würzburg
Werner Lutzenberger
Werner Lutzenberger University of Tübingen
Enzo Tagliazucchi
Enzo Tagliazucchi University of Buenos Aires
Miquel A. Fullana
Miquel A. Fullana Clínic Barcelona
Stefan Duschek
Stefan Duschek UMIT Tirol - Private University for Health Sciences and Health Technology
Christoph Braun
Christoph Braun University of Tübingen
Wolfgang Grodd
Wolfgang Grodd Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics

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