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Yenisel Cruz-Almeida

Yenisel Cruz-Almeida

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Neuroscience

D-Index
38
Citations
5585
World Ranking
8576
National Ranking
3650

Overview

Yenisel Cruz-Almeida is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States and specializes in medical research with a primary focus on physiology, pharmacology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry, and mental health. Their research output includes a substantial volume of work across several subfields, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to understanding medical and physiological processes.

The scientist's main research themes include musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, pain mechanisms and treatments, osteoarthritis treatment and mechanisms, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome research, heart rate variability and autonomic control, stroke rehabilitation and recovery, and pediatric pain management techniques.

Frequently publishing in varied venues, Cruz-Almeida's work appears in journals such as:

  • Journal of Pain
  • Experimental Gerontology
  • Innovation in Aging
  • Journal of Pain Research
  • Pain

Significant papers authored or co-authored by Cruz-Almeida include:

  • Multimodal Imaging of Brain Activity to Investigate Walking and Mobility Decline in Older Adults (Mind in Motion Study): Hypothesis, Theory, and Methods, 2020, Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
  • Autonomic Nervous System Dysregulation and Osteoarthritis Pain: Mechanisms, Measurement, and Future Outlook, 2022, Current Rheumatology Reports
  • The Imperative for Racial Equality in Pain Science: A Way Forward, 2021, Journal of Pain
  • Innovations in Geroscience to enhance mobility in older adults, 2020, Experimental Gerontology
  • Pain and the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) in Aging, 2021, Pain Medicine

Their collaborative network features frequent co-authors who have contributed significantly to shared research efforts, among them:

  • Roger B. Fillingim
  • Alisa J. Johnson
  • Pedro A. Valdés-Hernández
  • Zhiguang Huo
  • Soamy Montesino-Goicolea

Across their career, Cruz-Almeida has concentrated on research that intersects clinical rehabilitation and pain management, exploring complex physiological mechanisms underlying chronic and acute pain conditions. Their work contributes to the broader understanding of pain science and its medical applications, spanning a variety of patient populations and conditions.

Best Publications

  • Knee osteoarthritis: pathophysiology and current treatment modalities.

    Juan C Mora;Rene Przkora;Yenisel Cruz-Almeida

  • Can quantitative sensory testing move us closer to mechanism-based pain management?

    Yenisel Cruz-Almeida;Roger B. Fillingim

  • Successful aging: Advancing the science of physical independence in older adults.

    Stephen D. Anton;Adam J. Woods;Tetsuo Ashizawa;Diana Barb

  • Psychological profiles and pain characteristics of older adults with knee osteoarthritis.

    Yenisel Cruz-Almeida;Christopher D. King;Burel R. Goodin;Kimberly T. Sibille

  • Age and race effects on pain sensitivity and modulation among middle-aged and older adults

    Joseph L. Riley;Yenisel Cruz-Almeida;Toni L. Glover;Christopher D. King

  • Aging, the Central Nervous System, and Mobility in Older Adults: Neural Mechanisms of Mobility Impairment

    Farzaneh A. Sorond;Yenisel Cruz-Almeida;David J. Clark;Anand Viswanathan

  • Enhanced Pain Sensitivity Among Individuals With Symptomatic Knee Osteoarthritis: Potential Sex Differences in Central Sensitization

    Emily J. Bartley;Christopher D. King;Kimberly T. Sibille;Yenisel Cruz-Almeida

  • Experimental pain sensitivity differs as a function of clinical pain severity in symptomatic knee osteoarthritis

    Christopher D. King;Kimberly T. Sibille;Burel R. Goodin;Yenisel Cruz-Almeida

  • Racial and Ethnic Differences in Older Adults With Knee Osteoarthritis

    Yenisel Cruz-Almeida;Kimberly T. Sibille;Burel R. Goodin;Megan E. Petrov

  • Chronicity of pain associated with spinal cord injury: A longitudinal analysis.

    Yenisel Cruz-Almeida;Alberto Martinez-Arizala;Eva G. Widerström-Noga

  • Systemic Inflammation Mediates Age-Related Cognitive Deficits.

    Tian Lin;Gene A. Liu;Eliany Perez;Robert D. Rainer

  • The Association of Greater Dispositional Optimism With Less Endogenous Pain Facilitation Is Indirectly Transmitted Through Lower Levels of Pain Catastrophizing

    Burel R. Goodin;Toni L. Glover;Adriana Sotolongo;Christopher D. King

  • Metabolite concentrations in the anterior cingulate cortex predict high neuropathic pain impact after spinal cord injury

    Eva Widerström-Noga;Pradip M. Pattany;Yenisel Cruz-Almeida;Yenisel Cruz-Almeida;Yenisel Cruz-Almeida;Elizabeth R. Felix;Elizabeth R. Felix

  • Chronic pain is associated with a brain aging biomarker in community-dwelling older adults.

    Yenisel Cruz-Almeida;Roger B. Fillingim;Joseph L. Riley;Adam J. Woods

  • Perceived racial discrimination, but not mistrust of medical researchers, predicts the heat pain tolerance of African Americans with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis.

    Burel R. Goodin;Quyen T. Pham;Toni L. Glover;Adriana Sotolongo

  • Chronic pain after spinal cord injury: what characteristics make some pains more disturbing than others?

    Elizabeth Roy Felix;Yenisel Cruz-Almeida;Yenisel Cruz-Almeida;Eva G. Widerström-Noga

  • Temporal summation of pain as a prospective predictor of clinical pain severity in adults aged 45 years and older with knee osteoarthritis: ethnic differences.

    Burel R. Goodin;Hailey W. Bulls;Matthew S. Herbert;Jessica Schmidt

  • Postoperative fibrosis after surgical treatment of the porcine spinal cord: a comparison of dural substitutes. Invited submission from the Joint Section Meeting on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves, March 2004.

    Iftikharul Haq;Yenisel Cruz-Almeida;Edir B. Siqueira;Michael Norenberg

  • Offset analgesia is reduced in older adults.

    Kelly M. Naugle;Yenisel Cruz-Almeida;Roger B. Fillingim;Joseph L. Riley

  • Psychosocial Subgroups in Persons With Spinal Cord Injuries and Chronic Pain

    Eva G. Widerström-Noga;Eva G. Widerström-Noga;Elizabeth Roy Felix;Elizabeth Roy Felix;Yenisel Cruz-Almeida;Dennis C. Turk

  • Experimental pain phenotyping in community-dwelling individuals with knee osteoarthritis.

    Josue S. Cardoso;Joseph L. Riley;Toni Glover;Kimberly T. Sibille

  • Internal Consistency, Stability, and Validity of the Spinal Cord Injury Version of the Multidimensional Pain Inventory

    Eva G. Widerström-Noga;Eva G. Widerström-Noga;Eva G. Widerström-Noga;Yenisel Cruz-Almeida;Yenisel Cruz-Almeida;Yenisel Cruz-Almeida;Alberto Martinez-Arizala;Alberto Martinez-Arizala;Alberto Martinez-Arizala;Dennis C. Turk

Frequent Co-Authors

Eva Widerström-Noga
Eva Widerström-Noga University of Miami
Adam J. Woods
Adam J. Woods University of Florida
Charles J. Vierck
Charles J. Vierck University of Florida
Ronald A. Cohen
Ronald A. Cohen University of Florida
Jeffrey C. Edberg
Jeffrey C. Edberg University of Alabama at Birmingham
Thomas C. Foster
Thomas C. Foster University of Florida
James H. Cole
James H. Cole University College London
Andrei V. Krassioukov
Andrei V. Krassioukov University of British Columbia
Caterina Rosano
Caterina Rosano University of Pittsburgh
Michael Marsiske
Michael Marsiske University of Florida

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