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Robert C. Coghill publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Robert C. Coghill sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 166 publications — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Robert C. Coghill D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Robert C. Coghill sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 58 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Robert C. Coghill is affiliated with Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in the United States. Their research largely focuses on the mechanisms and treatment of pain, with extensive work in neuroscience and medicine.

The primary fields of study for Coghill include Medicine, with 104 publications, and Neuroscience, with 37 publications. Subfields central to their research are Cognitive Neuroscience, Physiology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Pharmacology, and Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health.

Key topics addressed in Coghill's research encompass Pain Mechanisms and Treatments, Pain Management and Placebo Effect, Musculoskeletal Pain and Rehabilitation, Pediatric Pain Management Techniques, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research, Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control, and Migraine and Headache Studies.

Frequent collaborators include Christopher D. King, Hadas Nahman-Averbuch, James Peugh, Marina López-Solà, and Susmita Kashikar-Zuck.

Robert C. Coghill has published frequently in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Pain, Pain, Headache The Journal of Head and Face Pain, and Nature Communications.

Recent significant papers include:

  • The Distributed Nociceptive System: A Framework for Understanding Pain, 2020, Trends in Neurosciences
  • Alterations in Brain Function After Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Migraine in Children and Adolescents, 2020, Headache The Journal of Head and Face Pain
  • Dissociation between individual differences in self-reported pain intensity and underlying fMRI brain activation, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Effect of percutaneous electrical nerve field stimulation on mechanosensitivity, sleep, and psychological comorbidities in adolescents with functional abdominal pain disorders, 2022, Neurogastroenterology & Motility
  • The Endogenous Analgesia Signature in the Resting Brain of Healthy Adults and Migraineurs, 2020, Journal of Pain

Best Publications

  • PAIN INTENSITY PROCESSING WITHIN THE HUMAN BRAIN : A BILATERAL, DISTRIBUTED MECHANISM

    Robert C. Coghill;Christine N. Sang;Jose Ma. Maisog;Michael J. Iadarola

  • Distributed processing of pain and vibration by the human brain.

    RC Coghill;JD Talbot;AC Evans;E Meyer

  • The subjective experience of pain: Where expectations become reality

    Tetsuo Koyama;John G. McHaffie;Paul J. Laurienti;Robert C. Coghill

  • Brain Mechanisms Supporting the Modulation of Pain by Mindfulness Meditation

    Fadel Zeidan;Katherine T. Martucci;Robert A. Kraft;Nakia S. Gordon

  • Neural correlates of interindividual differences in the subjective experience of pain

    Robert C. Coghill;John G. McHaffie;Ye-Fen Yen

  • Mindfulness Meditation-Based Pain Relief Employs Different Neural Mechanisms Than Placebo and Sham Mindfulness Meditation-Induced Analgesia.

    Fadel Zeidan;Nichole M. Emerson;Suzan R. Farris;Jenna N. Ray

  • Unilateral decrease in thalamic activity observed with positron emission tomography in patients with chronic neuropathic pain.

    Michael J. Iadarola;Mitchell B. Max;Karen Faith Berman;Michael G. Byas-Smith

  • Mindfulness meditation-related pain relief: evidence for unique brain mechanisms in the regulation of pain.

    F. Zeidan;Joshua Grant;C. A. Brown;J. G. McHaffie

  • Multifactorial preoperative predictors for postcesarean section pain and analgesic requirement.

    Peter H. Pan;Robert Coghill;Timothy T. Houle;Melvin H. Seid

  • Hemispheric Lateralization of Somatosensory Processing

    Robert C. Coghill;Ian Gilron;Michael J. Iadarola

  • Roles of the Insular Cortex in the Modulation of Pain: Insights from Brain Lesions

    Christopher J. Starr;Lumy Sawaki;George F. Wittenberg;Jonathan H. Burdette

  • Reproducibility of pain measurement and pain perception.

    Elisa M. Rosier;Michael J. Iadarola;Robert C. Coghill

  • Neural Correlates of Mindfulness Meditation-Related Anxiety Relief

    Fadel Zeidan;Katherine T. Martucci;Robert A. Kraft;John G. McHaffie

  • Individual Differences in the Subjective Experience of Pain: New Insights Into Mechanisms and Models

    Robert C. Coghill

  • A tale of two itches. Common features and notable differences in brain activation evoked by cowhage and histamine induced itch.

    Alexandru D.P. Papoiu;Robert C. Coghill;Robert C. Coghill;Robert A. Kraft;Hui Wang;Hui Wang

  • Pain in the ACC

    Tor D. Wager;Lauren Y. Atlas;Matthew M. Botvinick;Luke J. Chang

  • Distinct patterns of brain activity evoked by histamine-induced itch reveal an association with itch intensity and disease severity in atopic dermatitis.

    Y. Ishiuji;R. C. Coghill;Tejesh Patel;Y. Oshiro

  • Transient Analgesia Evoked by Noxious Stimulus Offset

    Joshua D. Grill;Robert C. Coghill

  • Wide dynamic range but not nociceptive-specific neurons encode multidimensional features of prolonged repetitive heat pain

    R. C. Coghill;D. J. Mayer;D. D. Price

  • The contribution of the putamen to sensory aspects of pain: insights from structural connectivity and brain lesions

    Christopher J. Starr;Lumy Sawaki;George F. Wittenberg;George F. Wittenberg;Jonathan H. Burdette

Frequent Co-Authors

John G. McHaffie
John G. McHaffie Wake Forest University
David Yarnitsky
David Yarnitsky Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Gil Yosipovitch
Gil Yosipovitch University of Miami
Scott W. Powers
Scott W. Powers Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
David J. Mayer
David J. Mayer Virginia Commonwealth University
James C. Eisenach
James C. Eisenach Wake Forest University
Ole Kæseler Andersen
Ole Kæseler Andersen Aalborg University
Michael J. Iadarola
Michael J. Iadarola National Institutes of Health
Donald D. Price
Donald D. Price University of Florida
Ronald L. Hayes
Ronald L. Hayes The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

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