Stephen Brendan McMahon

The paper introduces EPISeg, a deep learning model for automated spinal cord segmentation on gradient-echo EPI data, showing improved performance over existing methods.

This paper introduces a novel spinal fMRI method to study functional connectivity in the cervical spinal cord, finding mixed test-retest reliability but consistent spatial organization across sessions.

This study investigates how descending inhibitory pathways affect HFS-induced hyperalgesia in humans and rats, finding that excitatory signaling outweighs inhibitory controls.

This study identifies cortical morphometric similarity remodelling in chronic pain and links it to transcriptomic changes in glial and neuronal genes across multiple pain syndromes.

This study investigates Nav1.7's role in axonal propagation in nociceptors using sodium channel blockers in mice, finding it essential in about 2/3 of C-fibre neurons and a lower proportion of muscle-innervating neurons.

This study examines functional connectivity changes during and after cold pain in healthy volunteers, finding persistent alterations related to reported pain intensity.

This study investigates how bone cancer affects the peripheral encoding of mechanical pressure stimuli by comparing sensory afferent responses in healthy and cancer-induced bone pain rats.

This study shows that delayed peripheral infusion of neurotrophin-3 improves sensorimotor recovery after ischemic stroke in rats by inducing spinal neuroplasticity.

This paper demonstrates a technique to monitor large-scale sensory neuron activity in vivo using GCaMP6, revealing polymodality and sensitization in nociceptors under inflammatory conditions.