2026 Volker Neugebauer: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	72	2346	2145	1111	1000	167	15367

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Overview

Volker Neugebauer is affiliated with The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in the United States. Their research predominantly spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with a strong focus on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Physiology. Additional subfields include Pharmacology, Molecular Biology, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

The scientist's main topics of work include Pain Mechanisms and Treatments, Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology, Ginger and Zingiberaceae research, Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Stress Responses and Cortisol, and Dermatology and Skin Diseases.

Neugebauer has published extensively in several key venues, notably including:

Current Developments in Nutrition
Innovation in Aging
Neuropharmacology
Cells
Frontiers in Pharmacology

Frequent collaborators in their research include Guangchen Ji, Chwan-Li Shen, Takaki Kiritoshi, Peyton Presto, and Vadim Yakhnitsa.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Neugebauer demonstrate the thematic range and focus of their work. These include:

"Amygdala, neuropeptides, and chronic pain-related affective behaviors," 2020, Neuropharmacology
"The prolactin receptor long isoform regulates nociceptor sensitization and opioid-induced hyperalgesia selectively in females," 2020, Science Translational Medicine
"Dietary supplementation of gingerols- and shogaols-enriched ginger root extract attenuate pain-associated behaviors while modulating gut microbiota and metabolites in rats with spinal nerve ligation," 2021, The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry
"Sex differences in pain along the neuraxis," 2022, Neuropharmacology
"Optogenetic manipulations of CeA-CRF neurons modulate pain- and anxiety-like behaviors in neuropathic pain and control rats," 2022, Neuropharmacology

Best Publications

The Amygdala and Persistent Pain

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Alzheimer brain-derived tau oligomers propagate pathology from endogenous tau.

Cristian A. Lasagna-Reeves;Diana L. Castillo-Carranza;Urmi Sengupta;Marcos J. Guerrero-Munoz

572
Citations
Amygdala pain mechanisms.

Volker Neugebauer

459
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Metabotropic glutamate receptors: novel targets for pain relief.

Volker Neugebauer

436
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Forebrain pain mechanisms.

Volker Neugebauer;Vasco Galhardo;Sabatino Maione;Sean C. Mackey

428
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Cognitive Impairment in Pain through Amygdala-Driven Prefrontal Cortical Deactivation

Guangchen Ji;Hao Sun;Yu Fu;Zhen Li

427
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Evidence for a central component in the sensitization of spinal neurons with joint input during development of acute arthritis in cat's knee.

V. Neugebauer;H. G. Schaible

310
Citations
The cannabinoid system and pain

Stephen G. Woodhams;Victoria Chapman;David P. Finn;Andrea G. Hohmann

304
Citations
Synaptic plasticity in the amygdala in a model of arthritic pain: differential roles of metabotropic glutamate receptors 1 and 5.

Volker Neugebauer;Weidong Li;Gary C. Bird;Gautam Bhave

285
Citations
Hemispheric Lateralization of Pain Processing by Amygdala Neurons

Guangchen Ji;Volker Neugebauer

278
Citations
Amygdala Plasticity and Pain.

Jeremy M. Thompson;Volker Neugebauer

263
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Metabotropic glutamate receptors – important modulators of nociception and pain behavior

Volker Neugebauer

258
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Requirement of metabotropic glutamate receptors for the generation of inflammation-evoked hyperexcitability in rat spinal cord neurons.

Volker Neugebauer;Thomas Lücke;Hans‐Georg Schaible

253
Citations
Differential mechanisms of CRF1 and CRF2 receptor functions in the amygdala in pain-related synaptic facilitation and behavior

Yu Fu;Volker Neugebauer

250
Citations
Differential Sensitization of Amygdala Neurons to Afferent Inputs in a Model of Arthritic Pain

Volker Neugebauer;Weidong Li

236
Citations
Critical Role of Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide 1 Receptors in the Amygdala in Synaptic Plasticity and Pain Behavior

Jeong S Han;Weidong Li;Volker Neugebauer

224
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Techniques for assessing knee joint pain in arthritis

Volker Neugebauer;Jeong S Han;Hita Adwanikar;Yu-ru Fu

222
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Spinal endocannabinoids and CB1 receptors mediate C-fiber-induced heterosynaptic pain sensitization.

Alejandro J. Pernía-Andrade;Ako Kato;Ako Kato;Robert Witschi;Robert Witschi;Rita Nyilas

210
Citations
Processing of Nociceptive Mechanical and Thermal Information in Central Amygdala Neurons With Knee-Joint Input

Volker Neugebauer;Weidong Li

205
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Corticotropin-Releasing Factor and Urocortin I Modulate Excitatory Glutamatergic Synaptic Transmission

Jie Liu;Baojian Yu;Volker Neugebauer;Dimitri E. Grigoriadis

200
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Role of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Subtype mGluR1 in Brief Nociception and Central Sensitization of Primate STT Cells

Volker Neugebauer;Ping-Sun Chen;William D. Willis

199
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