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Richard E. Harris is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with a notable concentration in subfields such as Pharmacology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Genetics.

Harris has contributed extensively to topics including Musculoskeletal Pain and Rehabilitation, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research, Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders, Acupuncture Treatment Research Studies, Pain Management and Placebo Effect, Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research, and Pelvic Floor Disorders Treatments.

The scientist has published frequently in several prominent venues, especially:

  • Pain
  • Journal of Pain
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Blood
  • Pain Medicine

Recent published papers by Richard E. Harris cover a range of topics related to pain and neuroscience:

  • Chronic nociplastic pain affecting the musculoskeletal system: clinical criteria and grading system (2021, Pain)
  • Predicting chronic postsurgical pain: current evidence and a novel program to develop predictive biomarker signatures (2023, Pain)
  • Greater Somatosensory Afference With Acupuncture Increases Primary Somatosensory Connectivity and Alleviates Fibromyalgia Pain via Insular γ-Aminobutyric Acid: A Randomized Neuroimaging Trial (2020, Arthritis & Rheumatology)
  • Classical and non-classical psychedelic drugs induce common network changes in human cortex (2023, NeuroImage)
  • Neural Correlates of the Shamanic State of Consciousness (2021, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience)

Among frequent co-authors in their research, Harris collaborates with:

  • Steven E. Harte
  • Daniel J. Clauw
  • Andrew Schrepf
  • Eric Ichesco
  • David A. Williams

Best Publications

  • Intrinsic Brain Connectivity in Fibromyalgia is Associated with Chronic Pain Intensity

    Vitaly J. Napadow;Lauren LaCount;Kyungmo Park;Sawsan As-Sanie

  • Decreased Central μ-Opioid Receptor Availability in Fibromyalgia

    Richard E. Harris;Daniel J. Clauw;David J. Scott;Samuel A. McLean

  • Subgrouping of fibromyalgia patients on the basis of pressure-pain thresholds and psychological factors.

    Thorsten Giesecke;David A. Williams;Richard E. Harris;Thomas R. Cupps

  • Chronic nociplastic pain affecting the musculoskeletal system: clinical criteria and grading system.

    Eva Kosek;Eva Kosek;Daniel Clauw;Jo Nijs;Jo Nijs;Ralf Baron

  • Traditional Chinese Acupuncture and Placebo (Sham) Acupuncture Are Differentiated by Their Effects on μ-Opioid Receptors (MORs)

    Richard E. Harris;Jon Kar Zubieta;David J. Scott;Vitaly Napadow

  • Elevated insular glutamate in fibromyalgia is associated with experimental pain.

    Richard E. Harris;Pia C. Sundgren;A. D. Craig;Eric Kirshenbaum

  • Decreased intrinsic brain connectivity is associated with reduced clinical pain in fibromyalgia.

    Vitaly J. Napadow;Jieun Kim;Daniel J. Clauw;Richard E. Harris

  • The neurobiology of central sensitization

    Steven E. Harte;Richard E. Harris;Daniel J. Clauw

  • Paradoxes in Acupuncture Research: Strategies for Moving Forward

    Helene M Langevin;Peter Michael Wayne;Hugh MacPherson;Rosa Schnyer

  • Changes in regional gray matter volume in women with chronic pelvic pain: a voxel-based morphometry study.

    Sawsan As-Sanie;Richard E. Harris;Vitaly J. Napadow;Jieun Kim

  • Pregabalin rectifies aberrant brain chemistry, connectivity, and functional response in chronic pain patients.

    Richard E. Harris;Vitaly Napadow;John P. Huggins;Lynne Pauer

  • Fibromyalgia: An Afferent Processing Disorder Leading to a Complex Pain Generalized Syndrome

    Howard S. Smith;Richard Harris;Daniel Clauw

  • Dynamic levels of glutamate within the insula are associated with improvements in multiple pain domains in fibromyalgia.

    Richard E. Harris;Pia C. Sundgren;Yuxi Pang;Michael Hsu

  • Momentary relationship between cortisol secretion and symptoms in patients with fibromyalgia

    Samuel A. McLean;David A. Williams;Richard E. Harris;Willem J. Kop

  • Reduced Insular γ-Aminobutyric Acid in Fibromyalgia

    Bradley R. Foerster;Myria Petrou;Richard A. E. Edden;Pia C. Sundgren

  • Functional Connectivity Is Associated With Altered Brain Chemistry in Women With Endometriosis-Associated Chronic Pelvic Pain

    Sawsan As-Sanie;Jieun Kim;Tobias Schmidt-Wilcke;Pia C. Sundgren

  • The Status and Future of Acupuncture Mechanism Research

    Vitaly Napadow;Andrew Ahn;John Longhurst;Lixing Lao

  • Disrupted Brain Circuitry for Pain‐Related Reward/Punishment in Fibromyalgia

    Marco Luciano Loggia;Chantal Berna;Jieun Kim;Christine M. Cahalan

  • Grasshopper, a long terminal repeat (LTR) retroelement in the phytopathogenic fungus Magnaporthe grisea

    K F Dobinson;R E Harris;J E Hamer

  • Treatment of fibromyalgia with formula acupuncture: investigation of needle placement, needle stimulation, and treatment frequency.

    Richard E. Harris;Xiaoming Tian;David A. Williams;Thomas X. Tian

  • Traditional Chinese acupuncture and placebo (sham) acupuncture are differentiated by their effects on μ-opioid receptors (MORs)

    Johannes Fleckenstein;R.E. Harris;J.K. Zubieta;D.J. Scott

Frequent Co-Authors

Vitaly Napadow
Vitaly Napadow Harvard University
Tobias Schmidt-Wilcke
Tobias Schmidt-Wilcke Ruhr University Bochum
Sean Mackey
Sean Mackey Stanford University
A. Vania Apkarian
A. Vania Apkarian Northwestern University
Jennifer S. Labus
Jennifer S. Labus University of California, Los Angeles
Scott Peltier
Scott Peltier University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jieun Kim
Jieun Kim Stanford University
Richard Anthony Edward Edden
Richard Anthony Edward Edden Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Robert C. Welsh
Robert C. Welsh University of Utah
Marco L. Loggia
Marco L. Loggia Harvard University

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