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Wilfrid Jänig

Wilfrid Jänig

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Neuroscience

D-Index
79
Citations
21898
World Ranking
1687
National Ranking
153

Medicine

D-Index
79
Citations
21811
World Ranking
17609
National Ranking
922

Overview

Wilfrid Jänig is affiliated with Kiel University in Germany and has contributed to research primarily in the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience. Their work spans various subfields including Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Physiology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Pharmacology, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

Their research focuses on topics related to pain and its management, covering areas such as Pain Management and Treatment, Pain Mechanisms and Treatments, Pain Management and Placebo Effect, Musculoskeletal Pain and Rehabilitation, Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments, Mental Health and Psychiatry, and Laser Applications in Dentistry and Medicine.

Jänig has published papers in several notable venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Nature Neuroscience
  • Clinical Autonomic Research
  • Cambridge University Press eBooks

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Wilfrid Jänig include:

  • "A. D. (Bud) Craig, Jr. (1951-2023)" (2023) in Nature Neuroscience
  • "The Lovén reflex: the renaissance of a long-forgotten reflex involving autonomic and nociceptive pathways" (2021) in Clinical Autonomic Research
  • "Index" (2022) in Cambridge University Press eBooks

Wilfrid Jänig has collaborated with several researchers throughout their career. Some frequent coauthors are:

  • Anders Blomqvist
  • HC Evrard
  • Jonathan O. Dostrovsky
  • Irina A. Strigo
  • Daniela Accorsi-Mendonça

In addition to journal articles, Jänig has contributed to book publications. One notable book published by Cambridge University Press is The Integrative Action of the Autonomic Nervous System (2022), which has received citations reflecting its academic reach.

Best Publications

  • Reflex sympathetic dystrophy: changing concepts and taxonomy

    M Stanton-Hicks;W Jänig;S Hassenbusch;J D Haddox

  • Peripheral nerve injury triggers noradrenergic sprouting within dorsal root ganglia

    Elspeth M. McLachlan;Wilfrid Jänig;Marshall Devor;Martin Michaelis

  • Activation of unmyelinated afferent fibres by mechanical stimuli and inflammation of the urinary bladder in the cat.

    H J Häbler;W Jänig;M Koltzenburg

  • Complex regional pain syndrome: mystery explained?

    Wilfrid Jänig;Ralf Baron

  • Functional properties of spinal visceral afferents supplying abdominal and pelvic organs, with special emphasis on visceral nociception

    W. Jänig;J.F.B. Morrison

  • Integrative Action of the Autonomic Nervous System: Neurobiology of Homeostasis

    Wilfrid Jänig

  • Interactions of sympathetic and primary afferent neurons following nerve injury and tissue trauma.

    W Janig;J D Levine;M Michaelis

  • Modulation of activity in dorsal root ganglion neurons by sympathetic activation in nerve-injured rats

    M. Devor;W. Janig;M. Michaelis

  • Organization of lumbar spinal outflow to distal colon and pelvic organs

    W. Janig;E. M. McLachlan

  • Characteristics of function-specific pathways in the sympathetic nervous system.

    Wilfrid Jänig;Elspeth M. McLachlan

  • Activation of myelinated afferents ending in a neuroma by stimulation of the sympathetic supply in the rat

    Marshall Devor;Wilfrid Jänig

  • Spontaneous activity of axotomized afferent neurons after L5 spinal nerve injury in rats

    Xianguo Liu;Sebastian Eschenfelder;Karl-Heinz Blenk;Wilfrid Jänig

  • Complex regional pain syndrome is a disease of the central nervous system.

    Wilfrid Jänig;Ralf Baron

  • Sympathetic and afferent somata projecting in hindlimb nerves and the anatomical organization of the lumbar sympathetic nervous system of the rat.

    Ralf Baron;Wilfrid Jänig;Wolfgang Kollmann

  • Axotomized and Intact Muscle Afferents But No Skin Afferents Develop Ongoing Discharges of Dorsal Root Ganglion Origin after Peripheral Nerve Lesion

    Martin Michaelis;Xianguo Liu;Wilfrid Jänig

  • Organization of the lumbar sympathetic outflow to skeletal muscle and skin of the cat hindlimb and tail.

    Wilfrid Jänig

  • Quantitative sensory testing, neurophysiological and psychological examination in patients with complex regional pain syndrome and hemisensory deficits.

    Oliver Rommel;Jean-Pierre Malin;Michael Zenz;Wilfrid Jänig

  • Neurobiology of visceral afferent neurons: neuroanatomy, functions, organ regulations and sensations.

    Wilfrid Jänig

  • Visceral nociceptors: a new world order?

    Fernando Cervero;Wilfrid Jänig

  • Discharge pattern of afferent fibers from a neuroma.

    H. Blumberg;W. Jänig

Frequent Co-Authors

Ralf Baron
Ralf Baron Kiel University
Martin Koltzenburg
Martin Koltzenburg University College London
Elspeth M. McLachlan
Elspeth M. McLachlan University of New South Wales
Jon D. Levine
Jon D. Levine University of California, San Francisco
Thorsten Bartsch
Thorsten Bartsch Kiel University
Giorgio Sandrini
Giorgio Sandrini University of Pavia
Rigmor Jensen
Rigmor Jensen University of Copenhagen
Gunnar Wasner
Gunnar Wasner Kiel University
Robin M. McAllen
Robin M. McAllen University of Melbourne
Robert F. Schmidt
Robert F. Schmidt University of Würzburg

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