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Richard Hargreaves is affiliated with Harvard Medical School in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on medicine, with particular attention to subfields including cognitive neuroscience, physiology, and pharmacology.

The main topics addressed in their work encompass pain management and the placebo effect, pain mechanisms and treatments, as well as musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation.

Recent publications by Richard Hargreaves include the following papers:

  • Enhancing Choice and Outcomes for Therapeutic Trials in Chronic Pain: N-of-1 + Imaging (+ i), 2020, published in Trends in Pharmacological Sciences
  • Saving the Quality, 2020, published in Yale University Press eBooks

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Richard Hargreaves are:

  • David Borsook
  • Jaymin Upadhyay
  • Tor D. Wager

Publication venues where their work has appeared include:

  • Trends in Pharmacological Sciences
  • Yale University Press eBooks

Best Publications

  • Distinct Mechanism for Antidepressant Activity by Blockade of Central Substance P Receptors

    Mark S. Kramer;Neal Cutler;John Feighner;Ram Shrivastava

  • Thalamic sensitization transforms localized pain into widespread allodynia.

    Rami Burstein;Rami Burstein;Moshe Jakubowski;Esther Garcia-Nicas;B A Vanessa Kainz

  • [18F]MK-9470, a positron emission tomography (PET) tracer for in vivo human PET brain imaging of the cannabinoid-1 receptor

    H. Donald Burns;Koen Van Laere;Sandra Sanabria-Bohórquez;Terence G. Hamill

  • Lack of Efficacy of the Substance P (Neurokinin1 Receptor) Antagonist Aprepitant in the Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder

    Martin Keller;Stuart Montgomery;William Ball;Mary Morrison

  • Differential involvement of neurotransmitters through the time course of cisplatin-induced emesis as revealed by therapy with specific receptor antagonists

    P.J. Hesketh;S. Van Belle;M. Aapro;F.D. Tattersall

  • Neurogenic inflammation in the context of migraine.

    David J. Williamson;Richard J. Hargreaves

  • Intravital Microscope Studies on the Effects of Neurokinin Agonists and Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide on Dural Vessel Diameter in the Anaesthetized Rat:

    DJ Williamson;RJ Hargreaves;RG Hill;SL Shepheard

  • A role for fMRI in optimizing CNS drug development

    David Borsook;Lino Becerra;Richard Hargreaves

  • Painful Heat Reveals Hyperexcitability of the Temporal Pole in Interictal and Ictal Migraine States

    E. A. Moulton;L. Becerra;N. Maleki;G. Pendse

  • Structural Optimization Affording 2-(R)-(1-(R)-3,5-Bis(trifluoromethyl)phenylethoxy)-3-(S)-(4-fluoro)phenyl-4- (3-oxo-1,2,4-triazol-5-yl)methylmorpholine, a Potent, Orally Active, Long-Acting Morpholine Acetal Human NK-1 Receptor Antagonist

    J. J. Hale;S. G. Mills;M. Maccoss;P. E. Finke

  • Sumatriptan inhibits neurogenic vasodilation of dural blood vessels in the anaesthetized rat--intravital microscope studies.

    DJ Williamson;RJ Hargreaves;RG Hill;SL Shepheard

  • The acyclic CB1R inverse agonist taranabant mediates weight loss by increasing energy expenditure and decreasing caloric intake.

    Carol Addy;Hamish Wright;Koen Van Laere;Ira Gantz

  • Tachykinin NK1 receptor antagonists act centrally to inhibit emesis induced by the chemotherapeutic agent cisplatin in ferrets.

    F.D. Tattersall;W. Rycroft;B. Francis;D. Pearce

  • Interictal dysfunction of a brainstem descending modulatory center in migraine patients.

    Eric A. Moulton;Rami Burstein;Shannon Tully;Richard Hargreaves

  • Comparison of the effects of sumatriptan and the NK1 antagonist CP-99,994 on plasma extravasation in dura mater and c-fos mRNA expression in trigeminal nucleus caudalis of rats

    S. L. Shepheard;D. J. Williamson;John Williams;R. G. Hill

  • Human positron emission tomography studies of brain neurokinin 1 receptor occupancy by aprepitant.

    Mats Bergström;Richard J Hargreaves;H.Donald Burns;Michael R Goldberg

  • Imaging substance P receptors (NK1) in the living human brain using positron emission tomography.

    Richard Hargreaves

  • The novel anti-migraine agent rizatriptan inhibits neurogenic dural vasodilation and extravasation.

    David J. Williamson;Sara L. Shepheard;Raymond G. Hill;Richard J. Hargreaves

  • Neuropeptide Y5 receptor antagonism does not induce clinically meaningful weight loss in overweight and obese adults.

    Ngozi Erondu;Ira Gantz;Bret Musser;Shailaja Suryawanshi

  • Synthesis, characterization, and first successful monkey imaging studies of metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 5 (mGluR5) PET radiotracers

    Terence G. Hamill;Stephen Krause;Christine Ryan;Celine Bonnefous

  • Rizatriptan has central antinociceptive effects against durally evoked responses.

    Michael J Cumberbatch;Raymond G Hill;Richard J Hargreaves

Frequent Co-Authors

David Borsook
David Borsook Boston Children's Hospital
Lino Becerra
Lino Becerra Harvard Medical School
Smriti Iyengar
Smriti Iyengar Eli Lilly (United States)
John J. Renger
John J. Renger MSD (United States)

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