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Serge Marchand is affiliated with Université de Sherbrooke in Canada and has an extensive publication record primarily in the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience. Their research contributions cover a broad spectrum within these fields, notably including subfields such as Physiology, Pharmacology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.

The scientist's research focuses on several main topics related to pain and its management. These include Pain Mechanisms and Treatments, Musculoskeletal Pain and Rehabilitation, Pain Management and Placebo Effect, Pediatric Pain Management Techniques, Pain Management and Treatment, Pain Management and Opioid Use, and Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders.

Serge Marchand has published in a variety of academic venues, with a notable frequency in Frontiers in Pain Research, where they have at least nine publications. Other frequent publication venues include the Canadian Journal of Pain, Journal of Pain Research, PAIN Reports, and Journal of Pain.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Marchand include:

  • Optimizing and Accelerating the Development of Precision Pain Treatments for Chronic Pain: IMMPACT Review and Recommendations (2022, Journal of Pain)
  • Glial and neuroimmune cell choreography in sexually dimorphic pain signaling (2021, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews)
  • Pain Reduction With an Immersive Digital Therapeutic Tool in Women Living With Endometriosis-Related Pelvic Pain: Randomized Controlled Trial (2022, Journal of Medical Internet Research)
  • Mechanisms Challenges of the Pain Phenomenon (2021, Frontiers in Pain Research)
  • Virtual Reality and the Mediation of Acute and Chronic Pain in Adult and Pediatric Populations: Research Developments (2022, Frontiers in Pain Research)

In addition to journal articles, Serge Marchand has contributed to book publications, including a title published by Frontiers Media: "Pain education research: Advances, innovations, and challenges" (2024).

Collaboration forms a significant part of Marchand's research activity. Frequent co-authors include Guillaume Léonard, Matthieu Vincenot, Stéphane Potvin, Louis Gendron, and Alexia Coulombe-Lévêque.

Best Publications

  • Widespread pain in fibromyalgia is related to a deficit of endogenous pain inhibition

    Nancy Julien;Philippe Goffaux;Pierre Arsenault;Serge Marchand;Serge Marchand

  • Recommendations on terminology and practice of psychophysical DNIC testing.

    David Yarnitsky;David Yarnitsky;Lars Arendt-Nielsen;Didier Bouhassira;Robert R. Edwards

  • Recommendations on practice of conditioned pain modulation (CPM) testing.

    D. Yarnitsky;D. Bouhassira;A.M. Drewes;R.B. Fillingim

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

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

  • Is TENS purely a placebo effect? A controlled study on chronic low back pain *

    Serge Marchand;Jacques Charest;Jinxue Li;Jean-René Chenard

  • Thermotherapy for treatment of osteoarthritis.

    Lucie Brosseau;KA Yonge;Vivian Welch;S Marchand

  • Changes in pain perception and descending inhibitory controls start at middle age in healthy adults.

    Marianne Larivière;Philippe Goffaux;Serge Marchand;Nancy Julien

  • The role of sex hormones on formalin-induced nociceptive responses.

    Isabelle Gaumond;Pierre Arsenault;Serge Marchand;Serge Marchand

  • What Makes Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation Work? Making Sense of the Mixed Results in the Clinical Literature

    Kathleen A. Sluka;Jan M. Bjordal;Serge Marchand;Barbara A. Rakel

  • An experimental model to measure excitatory and inhibitory pain mechanisms in humans.

    Yannick Tousignant-Laflamme;Stéphanie Pagé;Philippe Goffaux;Serge Marchand

  • Establishing a link between heart rate and pain in healthy subjects: a gender effect

    Yannick Tousignant-Laflamme;Pierre Rainville;Serge Marchand

  • Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis in the hand

    Lucie Brosseau;KA Yonge;Vivian Welch;S Marchand

  • Pain facilitation and pain inhibition during conditioned pain modulation in fibromyalgia and in healthy controls.

    Stéphane Potvin;Serge Marchand

  • Efficacy of the transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation for the treatment of chronic low back pain: a meta-analysis.

    Lucie Brosseau;Sarah Milne;Vivian Robinson;Serge Marchand

  • Specificity of female and male sex hormones on excitatory and inhibitory phases of formalin-induced nociceptive responses.

    Isabelle Gaumond;Pierre Arsenault;Serge Marchand;Serge Marchand

  • The Physiology of Pain Mechanisms: From the Periphery to the Brain

    Serge Marchand

  • Human evidence of a supra-spinal modulating role of dopamine on pain perception.

    Stéphane Potvin;Sylvain Grignon;Serge Marchand

  • Excitatory and inhibitory pain mechanisms during the menstrual cycle in healthy women.

    Yannick Tousignant-Laflamme;Serge Marchand

  • Stimulation of human thalamus for pain relief: possible modulatory circuits revealed by positron emission tomography.

    G H Duncan;R C Kupers;S Marchand;J G Villemure

  • The Deficit of Pain Inhibition in Fibromyalgia Is More Pronounced in Patients With Comorbid Depressive Symptoms

    Juliana Barcellos de Souza;Stéphane Potvin;Philippe Goffaux;Jacques Charest

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary H. Duncan
Gary H. Duncan University of Montreal
Pierre Rainville
Pierre Rainville University of Montreal
M. Catherine Bushnell
M. Catherine Bushnell National Institutes of Health
Philippe Sarret
Philippe Sarret Université de Sherbrooke
Per Hansson
Per Hansson Karolinska Institute
David Yarnitsky
David Yarnitsky Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Julie Carrier
Julie Carrier University of Montreal
Philip L. Jackson
Philip L. Jackson Université Laval
Alain Ptito
Alain Ptito McGill University
Anna Maria Aloisi
Anna Maria Aloisi University of Siena

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