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Overview

Tor D. Wager is affiliated with Dartmouth College in the United States and has a significant publication record primarily in medicine and neuroscience. Their research spans a variety of subfields including cognitive neuroscience, physiology, experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry, mental health, and pharmacology.

Wager's recent papers reflect an emphasis on pain research and its neurological underpinnings. Notable papers include:

  • Discovery and validation of biomarkers to aid the development of safe and effective pain therapeutics: challenges and opportunities (2020), published in Nature Reviews Neurology
  • Gender Biases in Estimation of Others' Pain (2021), published in Journal of Pain
  • Effect of Pain Reprocessing Therapy vs Placebo and Usual Care for Patients With Chronic Back Pain (2021), published in JAMA Psychiatry
  • The self in context: brain systems linking mental and physical health (2021), published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience
  • A neuroimaging biomarker for sustained experimental and clinical pain (2021), published in Nature Medicine

The topics covered in Wager's research are diverse but largely focus on pain and brain function. These include:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Pain Management and Placebo Effect
  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control

They have frequently collaborated with several researchers, prominently including:

  • Martin A. Lindquist
  • Philip A. Kragel
  • Yoni K. Ashar
  • Choong-Wan Woo
  • Leonie Koban

Wager's work has been published extensively across several venues, especially those focusing on neuroscience and pain research. The most frequent publication platforms include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Pain
  • Pain
  • NeuroImage
  • Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • The unity and diversity of executive functions and their contributions to complex "Frontal Lobe" tasks: a latent variable analysis.

    Akira Miyake;Naomi P. Friedman;Michael J. Emerson;Alexander H. Witzki

  • Functional neuroanatomy of emotion: a meta-analysis of emotion activation studies in PET and fMRI.

    K. Luan Phan;Tor D. Wager;Stephan F. Taylor;Israel Liberzon

  • Functional Neuroimaging of Anxiety: A Meta-Analysis of Emotional Processing in PTSD, Social Anxiety Disorder, and Specific Phobia

    Amit Etkin;Tor D. Wager

  • Large-scale automated synthesis of human functional neuroimaging data

    Tal Yarkoni;Russell A Poldrack;Thomas E Nichols;David C Van Essen

  • A meta-analysis of heart rate variability and neuroimaging studies: implications for heart rate variability as a marker of stress and health.

    Julian F. Thayer;Julian F. Thayer;Fredrik Åhs;Mats Fredrikson;John J. Sollers

  • The brain basis of emotion: A meta-analytic review

    Kristen A. Lindquist;Tor D. Wager;Hedy Kober;Eliza Bliss-Moreau

  • Neuroimaging studies of working memory: a meta-analysis.

    Tor D. Wager;Edward E. Smith

  • Placebo-induced changes in FMRI in the anticipation and experience of pain.

    Tor D. Wager;James K. Rilling;Edward E. Smith;Alex Sokolik

  • The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study: Imaging acquisition across 21 sites.

    B.J. Casey;B.J. Casey;Tariq Cannonier;May I. Conley;May I. Conley;Alexandra O. Cohen

  • Large-Scale Network Dysfunction in Major Depressive Disorder: A Meta-analysis of Resting-State Functional Connectivity.

    Roselinde H. Kaiser;Jessica R. Andrews-Hanna;Tor D. Wager;Diego A. Pizzagalli

  • Valid conjunction inference with the minimum statistic.

    Thomas E. Nichols;Matthew Brett;Jesper L. R. Andersson;Tor D. Wager

  • Cognitive Reappraisal of Emotion: A Meta-Analysis of Human Neuroimaging Studies

    Jason T. Buhle;Jennifer A. Silvers;Tor D. Wager;Richard Lopez

  • Prefrontal-subcortical pathways mediating successful emotion regulation.

    Tor D. Wager;Matthew L. Davidson;Brent L. Hughes;Martin A. Lindquist

  • Fmri-based neurologic signature of physical pain

    Tor Wager;Martin Lindquist

  • Valence, gender, and lateralization of functional brain anatomy in emotion: a meta-analysis of findings from neuroimaging.

    Tor D Wager;K.Luan Phan;Israel Liberzon;Stephan F Taylor

  • Functional grouping and cortical-subcortical interactions in emotion: a meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies.

    Hedy Kober;Lisa Feldman Barrett;Lisa Feldman Barrett;Joshua W. Joseph;Eliza Bliss-Moreau

  • Cluster-extent based thresholding in fMRI analyses: Pitfalls and recommendations

    Choong-Wan Woo;Anjali Krishnan;Tor D. Wager

  • Neurobiological Mechanisms of the Placebo Effect

    Fabrizio Benedetti;Helen S. Mayberg;Tor D. Wager;Christian S. Stohler

  • Building better biomarkers: brain models in translational neuroimaging

    Choong Wan Woo;Luke J. Chang;Martin A. Lindquist;Tor D. Wager

  • Interference resolution: Insights from a meta-analysis of neuroimaging tasks

    Derek Evan Nee;Tor D. Wager;John Jonides

  • Mind matters: placebo enhances reward learning in Parkinson's disease

    Liane Schmidt;Erin Kendall Braun;Tor D Wager;Daphna Shohamy

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin A. Lindquist
Martin A. Lindquist Johns Hopkins University
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Lisa Feldman Barrett Northeastern University
Thomas E. Nichols
Thomas E. Nichols University of Oxford
Kevin N. Ochsner
Kevin N. Ochsner Columbia University
Tal Yarkoni
Tal Yarkoni The University of Texas at Austin
Jochen Weber
Jochen Weber Columbia University
Edward E. Smith
Edward E. Smith Columbia University
Hedy Kober
Hedy Kober Yale University
John Jonides
John Jonides University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Ethan Kross
Ethan Kross University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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