Vaughan Macefield

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Prof of Neuroscience

Monash University Central Clinical School

Australia

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Vaughan Macefield is a Professor of Neuroscience at Monash University Central Clinical School in Australia. His research focuses on the physiology of pain modulation, muscle spindle afferents, and the interactions between gut microbiota and brain functions. Recent articles include investigations on brainstem analgesic circuitry, the complexities of muscle spindles, and the effects of vagus nerve stimulation. He contributes to advancing the understanding of neural mechanisms underlying pain and physiological processes.

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INVESTIGATING PROPRIOCEPTION AND SENSORIMOTOR CONTROL IN HUMANS DEVOID OF FUNCTIONAL MUSCLE SPINDLES

Open Date: 2016-01-01

Close Date: 2018-01-01

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BRAIN IMAGING OF CARDIOVASCULAR CONTROL DURING MUSCLE PAIN

Open Date: 2016-01-01

Close Date: 2018-01-01

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FUNCTIONAL IDENTIFICATION OF CORTICAL AND SUBCORTICAL SITES RESPONSIBLE FOR NEUROGENIC HYPERTENSION IN HUMANS

Open Date: 2016-01-01

Close Date: 2019-01-01

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INVESTIGATING PROPRIOCEPTION AND SENSORIMOTOR CONTROL IN HUMANS DEVOID OF FUNCTIONAL MUSCLE SPINDLES

Open Date: 2016-01-01

Close Date: 2018-01-01

Grant: Close

FUNCTIONAL IDENTIFICATION OF CORTICAL AND SUBCORTICAL SITES RESPONSIBLE FOR NEUROGENIC HYPERTENSION IN HUMANS

Open Date: 2016-01-01

Close Date: 2019-01-01

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TOR WAGER

University of Colorado Boulder

UNITED STATES

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Markus Schlaich

University of Western Australia

AUSTRALIA

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Kevin A. Keay

AUSTRALIA

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Daniela Carnevale

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Sapienza University of Rome

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Francine Z Marques

MONASH UNIVERSITY

AUSTRALIA

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Glen Foster

Associate Professor

The University of British Columbia

CANADA

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Revathy Carnagarin

University of Western Australia

AUSTRALIA

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Damien Boorman

University of Sydney

AUSTRALIA

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Richard Vickery

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UNSW Sydney

AUSTRALIA

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Paul Macey

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University of California, Los Angeles

UNITED STATES

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Luke Henderson

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University of Sydney

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Gavin Lambert

Swinburne University of Technology

AUSTRALIA

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Ingvars Birznieks

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UNSW Sydney

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Cross-talk between microbiota–gut–brain axis and blood pressure regulation

Forebrain networks driving brainstem pain modulatory circuits during nocebo hyperalgesia in healthy humans

Somatotopic Organization of Brainstem Analgesic Circuitry

Firing properties of muscle spindle afferents in the intrinsic foot muscles and tactile afferents from the sole of the foot during upright stance

Why is the muscle spindle so complicated?

Conditioned Pain Modulation, Placebo and Offset Analgesia: Rates of Behavioural Expression of Inhibitory, Nonresponse and Facilitatory Pain Modulatory Effects

Physiology of nitrogen: A life or death matter

Microelectrode recordings from the human cervical vagus nerve during maximal breath‐holds

Electrical stimulation of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex inhibits vestibular signalling in humans: A BOLD fMRI study

The physiology, anatomy and stimulation of the vagus nerve in epilepsy

A comparison of wavelet-based action potential detection from the NeuroAmp and the Iowa Bioengineering Nerve Traffic Analysis system

Long-Term Blood Pressure Reductions Following Catheter-Based Renal Denervation

Differential activation of lateral parabrachial nuclei and their limbic projections during head compared with body pain: A 7-Tesla functional magnetic resonance imaging study

Non-additive effects of electrical stimulation of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the vestibular system on muscle sympathetic nerve activity in humans

Death by hypoxia: what were they thinking?

Differential control of sympathetic outflow to muscle and skin during physical and cognitive stressors

Is it time to expand the scope of the autonomic nervous system?

Relationship between muscle sympathetic nerve activity and rapid increases in circulating leukocytes during experimental muscle pain

Sympathetic vascular transduction and baroreflex sensitivity in the context of severe COPD

How Tactile Afferents in the Human Fingerpad Encode Tangential Torques Associated with Manipulation: Are Monkeys Better than Us?

Catheter-Based Renal Denervation: 9-Year Follow-Up Data on Safety and Blood Pressure Reduction in Patients With Resistant Hypertension

Sensorimotor control in the congenital absence of functional muscle spindles

Brain activity changes associated with pain perception variability

Central apnoeas, sympathetic activation and mortality in heart failure: look before you leap

Brain and cardiovascular-related changes are associated with aging, hypertension, and atrial fibrillation

Quantification of cardiac and respiratory modulation of axonal activity in the human vagus nerve

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Stimulation of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex modulates muscle sympathetic nerve activity and blood pressure in humans

Collaborators (13)

TOR WAGER

Markus Schlaich

Kevin A. Keay

Daniela Carnevale

Francine Z Marques

Glen Foster

Revathy Carnagarin

Damien Boorman

Richard Vickery

Paul Macey

Luke Henderson

Gavin Lambert

Ingvars Birznieks

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