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Pierre Rainville

Pierre Rainville

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Neuroscience

D-Index
58
Citations
19213
World Ranking
4096
National Ranking
238

Overview

Pierre Rainville is affiliated with the University of Montreal in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with a significant focus on related subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Physiology, Pharmacology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Social Psychology.

Their work covers multiple main topics, with an emphasis on Pain Management and Placebo Effect, Musculoskeletal Pain and Rehabilitation, and Pain Mechanisms and Treatments. Additional topics of research include Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions, Music Therapy and Health, Pediatric Pain Management Techniques, and Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments.

Frequent publication venues for Pierre Rainville's work are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Pain Research
  • Pain
  • American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis
  • Scientific Reports

Recent papers by Pierre Rainville include:

  • Expected value and sensitivity to punishment modulate insular cortex activity during risky decision making, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Mindfulness induction and cognition: A systematic review and meta-analysis, 2020, Consciousness and Cognition
  • Hypnosis to manage musculoskeletal and neuropathic chronic pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis, 2022, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Pharmacological Blockade of Muscle Afferents and Perception of Effort: A Systematic Review with Meta-analysis, 2022, Sports Medicine
  • Immersive virtual reality vs. non-immersive distraction for pain management of children during bone pins and sutures removal: A randomized clinical trial protocol, 2020, Journal of Advanced Nursing

Frequent co-authors working with Pierre Rainville include:

  • David Ogez
  • Mathieu Roy
  • Mathieu Landry
  • Jen-I Chen
  • Étienne Vachon-Presseau

Best Publications

  • Pain affect encoded in human anterior cingulate but not somatosensory cortex.

    Pierre Rainville;Gary H. Duncan;Donald D. Price;Benoı̂t Carrier

  • Brain mechanisms of pain affect and pain modulation.

    Pierre Rainville

  • Cortical Representation of the Sensory Dimension of Pain

    Robert K. Hofbauer;Robert K. Hofbauer;Pierre Rainville;Gary H. Duncan;M. Catherine Bushnell

  • Basic emotions are associated with distinct patterns of cardiorespiratory activity.

    Pierre Rainville;Antoine Bechara;Nasir Naqvi;Antonio R. Damasio

  • Dissociation of sensory and affective dimensions of pain using hypnotic modulation.

    Pierre Rainville;Benoı̂t Carrier;Robert K Hofbauer;M.Catherine Bushnell;M.Catherine Bushnell

  • Cerebral Mechanisms of Hypnotic Induction and Suggestion

    Pierre Rainville;Robert K. Hofbauer;Tomáš Paus;Gary H. Duncan

  • A biopsychosocial formulation of pain communication

    Thomas Hadjistavropoulos;Kenneth D. Craig;Steve Duck;Annmarie Cano

  • Cortical Thickness and Pain Sensitivity in Zen Meditators

    Joshua A. Grant;Jérôme Courtemanche;Emma G. Duerden;Gary H. Duncan

  • Hypnosis Modulates Activity in Brain Structures Involved in the Regulation of Consciousness

    Pierre Rainville;Robert K. Hofbauer;M. Catherine Bushnell;Gary H. Duncan

  • To what extent do we share the pain of others? Insight from the neural bases of pain empathy.

    Philip L. Jackson;Pierre Rainville;Jean Decety

  • A Psychophysical Comparison of Sensory and Affective Responses to Four Modalities of Experimental Pain

    Pierre Rainville;Jocelyne S. Feine;M. Catherine Bushnell;Gary H. Duncan

  • Descending analgesia – When the spine echoes what the brain expects

    Philippe Goffaux;William John Redmond;Pierre Rainville;Serge Marchand

  • Pain-related emotions modulate experimental pain perception and autonomic responses.

    Pierre Rainville;Quoc Viet Huynh Bao;Pablo Chrétien

  • A non-elaborative mental stance and decoupling of executive and pain-related cortices predicts low pain sensitivity in Zen meditators.

    Joshua A. Grant;Jérôme Courtemanche;Pierre Rainville

  • Emotional valence contributes to music-induced analgesia.

    Mathieu Roy;Isabelle Peretz;Pierre Rainville

  • Cerebral and spinal modulation of pain by emotions.

    Mathieu Roy;Mathieu Piché;Jen-I. Chen;Isabelle Peretz

  • Recognition and discrimination of prototypical dynamic expressions of pain and emotions.

    Daniela Simon;Kenneth D. Craig;Frederic Gosselin;Pascal Belin

  • The Corticocortical Structural Connectivity of the Human Insula

    Jimmy Ghaziri;Alan Tucholka;Gabriel Girard;Jean-Christophe Houde

  • The Stress Model of Chronic Pain: Evidence from Basal Cortisol and Hippocampal Structure and Function in Humans.

    Etienne Vachon-Presseau;Mathieu Roy;Marc-Olivier Martel;Etienne Caron

  • Pain Sensitivity and Analgesic Effects of Mindful States in Zen Meditators : A Cross-Sectional Study

    Joshua A. Grant;Pierre Rainville

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary H. Duncan
Gary H. Duncan University of Montreal
Philip L. Jackson
Philip L. Jackson Université Laval
M. Catherine Bushnell
M. Catherine Bushnell National Institutes of Health
Julien Cohen-Adad
Julien Cohen-Adad Polytechnique Montréal
Donald D. Price
Donald D. Price University of Florida
Serge Marchand
Serge Marchand Université de Sherbrooke
Julien Doyon
Julien Doyon Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Franco Lepore
Franco Lepore University of Montreal
Frédéric Gosselin
Frédéric Gosselin University of Montreal
Habib Benali
Habib Benali Concordia University

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