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Overview

Vitaly Napadow is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and neuroscience. Their research spans various subfields including psychiatry and mental health, cognitive neuroscience, pharmacology, neurology, and physiology.

The scientist has focused on multiple main topics throughout their career, including:

  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
  • Pain Management and Placebo Effect
  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Vagus Nerve Stimulation Research
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments

Vitaly Napadow has published numerous papers in well-recognized journals. Some recent publications include:

  • "International Consensus Based Review and Recommendations for Minimum Reporting Standards in Research on Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation (Version 2020)," 2021, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • "Interventions and Manipulations of Interoception," 2020, Trends in Neurosciences
  • "TIDieR-Placebo: A guide and checklist for reporting placebo and sham controls," 2020, PLoS Medicine
  • "Electrical stimulation of cranial nerves in cognition and disease," 2020, Brain Stimulation
  • "Extra-Axial Inflammatory Signal in Parameninges in Migraine with Visual Aura," 2020, Annals of Neurology

The scientist frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Robert R. Edwards
  • Marco L. Loggia
  • Roberta Sclocco
  • Jeungchan Lee
  • Ted J. Kaptchuk

Vitaly Napadow's work has been published repeatedly in specific venues known for research in pain and neuroscience, including:

  • Journal of Pain
  • Gastroenterology
  • Pain
  • Brain Stimulation
  • Pain Medicine

Their scientific output includes 294 publications in medicine and 107 in neuroscience, reflecting a broad and in-depth engagement with medical science topics and neurological research. Within these disciplines, the scientist's research has addressed significant intersections between pain mechanisms, autonomic control, and treatment modalities, contributing data and analysis relevant to clinical and cognitive neuroscience.

Best Publications

  • The autonomic brain: an activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis for central processing of autonomic function.

    Florian Beissner;Karen Meissner;Karl-Jurgen Bar;Vitaly J. Napadow

  • Intrinsic Brain Connectivity in Fibromyalgia is Associated with Chronic Pain Intensity

    Vitaly J. Napadow;Lauren LaCount;Kyungmo Park;Sawsan As-Sanie

  • The integrated response of the human cerebro-cerebellar and limbic systems to acupuncture stimulation at ST 36 as evidenced by fMRI

    Kathleen K. S. Hui;Jing Liu;Ovidiu Marina;Vitaly Napadow

  • Implications of Placebo and Nocebo Effects for Clinical Practice: Expert Consensus.

    Andrea W M Evers;Luana Colloca;Charlotte Blease;Marco Annoni

  • Evidence for brain glial activation in chronic pain patients

    Marco L. Loggia;Marco L. Loggia;Daniel B. Chonde;Oluwaseun Akeju;Grae Arabasz

  • Effects of electroacupuncture versus manual acupuncture on the human brain as measured by fMRI

    Vitaly Napadow;Nikos Makris;Jing Liu;Norman W. Kettner

  • Acupuncture De Qi, from Qualitative History to Quantitative Measurement

    Jian Kong;Randy Gollub;Tao Huang;Ginger Polich

  • Brain correlates of autonomic modulation: Combining heart rate variability with fMRI

    Vitaly J. Napadow;Vitaly J. Napadow;Rupali Dhond;Rupali Dhond;Giulia Conti;Giulia Conti;Nikos Makris

  • Traditional Chinese Acupuncture and Placebo (Sham) Acupuncture Are Differentiated by Their Effects on μ-Opioid Receptors (MORs)

    Richard E. Harris;Jon Kar Zubieta;David J. Scott;Vitaly Napadow

  • Acupuncture Modulates Resting State Connectivity in Default and Sensorimotor Brain Networks

    Rupali P. Dhond;Calvin Yeh;Kyungmo Park;Kyungmo Park;Norman Kettner

  • Elevated insular glutamate in fibromyalgia is associated with experimental pain.

    Richard E. Harris;Pia C. Sundgren;A. D. Craig;Eric Kirshenbaum

  • Decreased intrinsic brain connectivity is associated with reduced clinical pain in fibromyalgia.

    Vitaly J. Napadow;Jieun Kim;Daniel J. Clauw;Richard E. Harris

  • Default mode network connectivity encodes clinical pain: An arterial spin labeling study

    Marco Luciano Loggia;Marco Luciano Loggia;Marco Luciano Loggia;Jieun Kim;Randy Lyanne Gollub;Randy Lyanne Gollub;Mark G. Vangel

  • Characterization of the "deqi" response in acupuncture

    Kathleen K S Hui;Erika E Nixon;Mark G Vangel;Jing Liu

  • Neuroimaging Acupuncture Effects in the Human Brain

    Rupali P. Dhond;Norman Kettner;Vitaly Napadow

  • Characterizing acupuncture stimuli using brain imaging with FMRI--a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature.

    Wenjing Huang;Wenjing Huang;Daniel Pach;Vitaly J. Napadow;Kyungmo Park

  • Paradoxes in Acupuncture Research: Strategies for Moving Forward

    Helene M Langevin;Peter Michael Wayne;Hugh MacPherson;Rosa Schnyer

  • International Consensus Based Review and Recommendations for Minimum Reporting Standards in Research on Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation (Version 2020).

    Adam D. Farmer;Adam Strzelczyk;Alessandra Finisguerra;Alexander V. Gourine

  • Brain glial activation in fibromyalgia - A multi-site positron emission tomography investigation.

    Daniel S. Albrecht;Anton Forsberg;Angelica Sandström;Angelica Sandström;Courtney Bergan

  • Changes in regional gray matter volume in women with chronic pelvic pain: a voxel-based morphometry study.

    Sawsan As-Sanie;Richard E. Harris;Vitaly J. Napadow;Jieun Kim

  • Pregabalin rectifies aberrant brain chemistry, connectivity, and functional response in chronic pain patients.

    Richard E. Harris;Vitaly Napadow;John P. Huggins;Lynne Pauer

  • Traditional Chinese acupuncture and placebo (sham) acupuncture are differentiated by their effects on μ-opioid receptors (MORs)

    Johannes Fleckenstein;R.E. Harris;J.K. Zubieta;D.J. Scott

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco L. Loggia
Marco L. Loggia Harvard University
Robert R. Edwards
Robert R. Edwards Brigham and Women's Hospital
Ted J. Kaptchuk
Ted J. Kaptchuk Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Jieun Kim
Jieun Kim Stanford University
Richard E. Harris
Richard E. Harris University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Randy L. Gollub
Randy L. Gollub Harvard Medical School
Bruce R. Rosen
Bruce R. Rosen Harvard University
Jian Kong
Jian Kong Harvard University
Nikos Makris
Nikos Makris Brigham and Women's Hospital

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