2026 Roland Peyron: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	40	7968	7361	367	337	172	11958

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Overview

Roland Peyron is affiliated with Jean Monnet University in France, focusing research primarily in the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience. Their work spans several subfields, including Physiology, Neurology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Pharmacology.

Their research delves into multiple main topics, notably:

Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders
Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
Infant Health and Development

Among recent publications, notable papers include:

"Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for neuropathic pain: a randomized multicentre sham-controlled trial" (2021), published in Brain
"Dissecting central post-stroke pain: a controlled symptom-psychophysical characterization" (2022), published in Brain Communications
"Network Effects of Brain Lesions Causing Central Poststroke Pain" (2022), published in Annals of Neurology
"Dissecting neuropathic from poststroke pain: the white matter within" (2021), published in Pain
"The Modular Organization of Pain Brain Networks: An fMRI Graph Analysis Informed by Intracranial EEG" (2020), published in Cerebral Cortex Communications

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Roland Peyron include:

Camille Fauchon
Luis García-Larrea
Charles Quesada
Nadine Attal
Siloé Corvin

Their work has appeared consistently in scientific journals such as:

European Journal of Pain
Brain Communications
Pain
Otology & Neurotology
Brain

Best Publications

Functional imaging of brain responses to pain. A review and meta-analysis (2000).

R. Peyron;B. Laurent;L. García-Larrea

2753
Citations
Haemodynamic brain responses to acute pain in humans: sensory and attentional networks.

Roland Peyron;Luis García-Larrea;Marie-Claude Grégoire;Nicolas Costes

730
Citations
Electrical stimulation of motor cortex for pain control: a combined PET-scan and electrophysiological study☆

L Garcı́a-Larrea;R Peyron;P Mertens;M.C Gregoire

641
Citations
Pain matrices and neuropathic pain matrices: A review

Luis Garcia-Larrea;Roland Peyron

579
Citations
Association and dissociation between laser-evoked potentials and pain perception.

García-Larrea L;Peyron R;Laurent B;Mauguière F

405
Citations
Electrical stimulation of precentral cortical area in the treatment of central pain: electrophysiological and PET study

R. Peyron;L. Garcia-Larrea;M. P. Deiber;L. Cinotti

321
Citations
Motor cortex stimulation for pain control induces changes in the endogenous opioid system.

J. Maarrawi;R. Peyron;P. Mertens;N. Costes

315
Citations
Transcranial magnetic stimulation for pain control. Double-blind study of different frequencies against placebo, and correlation with motor cortex stimulation efficacy.

Nathalie André-Obadia;Roland Peyron;Patrick Mertens;François Mauguière

308
Citations
Motor cortex stimulation in neuropathic pain. Correlations between analgesic effect and hemodynamic changes in the brain. A PET study

Roland Peyron;Isabelle Faillenot;Patrick Mertens;Bernard Laurent

299
Citations
Motor cortex stimulation for neuropathic pain: From phenomenology to mechanisms.

Luis Garcia-Larrea;Roland Peyron

289
Citations
Can we share a pain we never felt? Neural correlates of empathy in patients with congenital insensitivity to pain.

Nicolas Danziger;Isabelle Faillenot;Isabelle Faillenot;Roland Peyron

286
Citations
Stimulation of the human cortex and the experience of pain: Wilder Penfield's observations revisited

Laure Mazzola;Jean Isnard;Jean Isnard;Roland Peyron;Roland Peyron;François Mauguière;François Mauguière

281
Citations
Somatotopic organization of pain responses to direct electrical stimulation of the human insular cortex.

L. Mazzola;J. Isnard;R. Peyron;M. Guénot

269
Citations
Motor cortex stimulation for refractory neuropathic pain: four year outcome and predictors of efficacy.

Christophe Nuti;Roland Peyron;Luis Garcia-Larrea;Jacques Brunon

263
Citations
Allodynia after lateral-medullary (Wallenberg) infarct. A PET study.

R Peyron;L García-Larrea;M C Grégoire;P Convers

243
Citations
Role of operculoinsular cortices in human pain processing: converging evidence from PET, fMRI, dipole modeling, and intracerebral recordings of evoked potentials.

Roland Peyron;M. Frot;F. Schneider;Luis Garcia-Larrea

240
Citations
Laser-evoked potential abnormalities in central pain patients: the influence of spontaneous and provoked pain.

Luis Garcia-Larrea;Philippe Convers;Michel Magnin;Nathalie André-Obadia

235
Citations
An fMRI study of cortical representation of mechanical allodynia in patients with neuropathic pain.

R. Peyron;F. Schneider;I. Faillenot;P. Convers

226
Citations
Operculo-insular pain (parasylvian pain): a distinct central pain syndrome

Luis Garcia-Larrea;Caroline Perchet;Christelle Creac'h;Philippe Convers

189
Citations
Differential brain opioid receptor availability in central and peripheral neuropathic pain.

Joseph Maarrawi;Roland Peyron;Patrick Mertens;Patrick Mertens;Patrick Mertens;Nicolas Costes

186
Citations