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William Maixner

William Maixner

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Medicine

D-Index
104
Citations
40526
World Ranking
7040
National Ranking
3701

Overview

William Maixner was affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research career focused primarily on medicine, with a particular emphasis on physiology, molecular biology, psychiatry and mental health, complementary and manual therapy, and pharmacology.

Their work extensively covered several main research topics, including:

  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Temporomandibular Joint Disorders
  • Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology
  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
  • Trigeminal Neuralgia and Treatments
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling

William Maixner contributed to a variety of scholarly publications, with a significant number of papers published in venues such as UNC Libraries, Journal of Oral & Facial Pain and Headache, Pain, Comprehensive Physiology, and the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

Recent notable papers from their research included:

  • "Central Nervous System Targets: Glial Cell Mechanisms in Chronic Pain," 2020, Neurotherapeutics
  • "STING controls nociception via type I interferon signalling in sensory neurons," 2021, Nature
  • "Anatomical and clinical implications of vagal modulation of the spleen," 2020, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "Associations of Psychologic Factors with Multiple Chronic Overlapping Pain Conditions," 2020, Journal of Oral & Facial Pain and Headache
  • "Baroreceptor Modulation of the Cardiovascular System, Pain, Consciousness, and Cognition," 2021, Comprehensive Physiology

The scientist worked frequently with several collaborators, including:

  • Luda Diatchenko
  • Roger B. Fillingim
  • Gary D. Slade
  • Richard Ohrbach
  • Joel D. Greenspan

Best Publications

  • Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorders (DC/TMD) for Clinical and Research Applications: recommendations of the International RDC/TMD Consortium Network* and Orofacial Pain Special Interest Group†

    Eric L Schiffman;Richard Ohrbach;Edmond Truelove;John O Look

  • Genetic basis for individual variations in pain perception and the development of a chronic pain condition

    Luda Diatchenko;Gary D. Slade;Andrea G. Nackley;Konakporn Bhalang

  • Neuroinflammation and Central Sensitization in Chronic and Widespread Pain

    Ru-Rong Ji;Andrea Nackley;Yul Huh;Niccolò Terrando

  • Human Catechol-O-Methyltransferase Haplotypes Modulate Protein Expression by Altering mRNA Secondary Structure

    A. G. Nackley;S. A. Shabalina;I. E. Tchivileva;K. Satterfield

  • Painful Temporomandibular Disorder Decade of Discovery from OPPERA Studies

    G.D. Slade;R. Ohrbach;J.D. Greenspan;R.B. Fillingim

  • Gender differences in the responses to noxious stimuli

    Roger B. Fillingim;William Maixner

  • GTP cyclohydrolase and tetrahydrobiopterin regulate pain sensitivity and persistence

    Irmgard Tegeder;Michael Costigan;Robert S Griffin;Andrea Abele

  • Psychological Factors Associated With Development of TMD: The OPPERA Prospective Cohort Study

    Roger B. Fillingim;Richard Ohrbach;Joel D. Greenspan;Charles Knott

  • Interactions Between Cardiovascular and Pain Regulatory Systems

    Alan Randich;William Maixner

  • Orofacial Pain Prospective Evaluation and Risk Assessment Study – The OPPERA Study

    William Maixner;Luda Diatchenko;Ronald Dubner;Roger B. Fillingim

  • Idiopathic pain disorders--pathways of vulnerability.

    Luda Diatchenko;Andrea G. Nackley;Gary D. Slade;Roger B. Fillingim

  • Clinical Findings and Pain Symptoms as Potential Risk Factors for Chronic TMD: Descriptive Data and Empirically Identified Domains from the OPPERA Case-Control Study

    Richard Ohrbach;Roger B. Fillingim;Flora Mulkey;Yoly Gonzalez

  • Sensitivity of patients with painful temporomandibular disorders to experimentally evoked pain

    William Maixner;Roger Fillingim;Donna Booker;Asgeir Sigurdsson

  • Sensitivity of patients with painful temporomandibular disorders to experimentally evoked pain: evidence for altered temporal summation of pain

    William Maixner;Roger Fillingim;Asgeir Sigurdsson;Shelley Kincaid

  • Catechol-O-methyltransferase gene polymorphisms are associated with multiple pain-evoking stimuli

    Luda Diatchenko;Andrea G. Nackley;Gary D. Slade;Kanokporn Bhalang

  • Genetically determined P2X7 receptor pore formation regulates variability in chronic pain sensitivity.

    Robert E. Sorge;Tuan Trang;Ruslan Dorfman;Shad B. Smith

  • Overlapping Chronic Pain Conditions: Implications for Diagnosis and Classification.

    William Maixner;William Maixner;Roger B. Fillingim;David A. Williams;Shad B. Smith;Shad B. Smith

  • Potential Autonomic Risk Factors for Chronic TMD: Descriptive Data and Empirically Identified Domains from the OPPERA Case-Control Study

    Roger B. Fillingim;Richard Ohrbach;Joel D. Greenspan;Charles Knott

  • Pain perception is altered by a nucleotide polymorphism in SCN9A

    Frank Reimann;James J. Cox;Inna Belfer;Luda Diatchenko

  • Sex differences in temporal summation but not sensory-discriminative processing of thermal pain

    Roger B Fillingim;William Maixner;Shelley Kincaid;Stefanie Silva

Frequent Co-Authors

Luda Diatchenko
Luda Diatchenko McGill University
Roger B. Fillingim
Roger B. Fillingim University of Florida
Gary D. Slade
Gary D. Slade University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Joel D. Greenspan
Joel D. Greenspan University of Maryland, Baltimore
Kathleen C. Light
Kathleen C. Light University of Utah
Susan S. Girdler
Susan S. Girdler University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jeffrey S. Mogil
Jeffrey S. Mogil McGill University
Nikolay V. Dokholyan
Nikolay V. Dokholyan Pennsylvania State University
Ronald Dubner
Ronald Dubner University of Maryland, Baltimore
David Goldman
David Goldman National Institutes of Health

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