List of works - Ron Kupers

A PET [18F]altanserin study of 5-HT2A receptor binding in the human brain and responses to painful heat stimulation

scientific article published on 28 October 2008

A model of transient hyperalgesia in the behaving monkey induced by topical application of capsaicin.

scientific article published in August 1997

A positron emission tomography study of wind-up pain in chronic postherniotomy pain.

scientific article

A thalamocortical pathway for fast rerouting of tactile information to occipital cortex in congenital blindness

scientific article published on 14 November 2019

A time course analysis of the changes in spontaneous and evoked behaviour in a rat model of neuropathic pain

scientific article published on July 1, 1992

Activation of the hippocampal complex during tactile maze solving in congenitally blind subjects

scientific article

Adaptive neuroplastic responses in early and late hemispherectomized monkeys

scientific article

Alterations in right posterior hippocampus in early blind individuals

scientific article published in March 2007

Alterations of the visual pathways in congenital blindness

scientific article (publication date: May 2008)

Altered sleep-wake patterns in blindness: a combined actigraphy and psychometric study

scientific article

Analgesic and placebo effects of thalamic stimulation.

scientific article

Are Supramodality and Cross-Modal Plasticity the Yin and Yang of Brain Development? From Blindness to Rehabilitation

scientific article published on 8 November 2016

As time goes by: temporal constraints on emotional activation of inferior medial prefrontal cortex

scientific article

Aδ and not C fibers mediate thermal hyperalgesia to short laser stimuli after burn injury in man

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Beyond visual, aural and haptic movement perception: hMT+ is activated by electrotactile motion stimulation of the tongue in sighted and in congenitally blind individuals

scientific article published on 11 May 2010

Blindness alters the microstructure of the ventral but not the dorsal visual stream

scientific article

Blindness and Consciousness: New Light from the Dark

scholarly article published 2009

Brain Morphological Modifications in Congenital and Acquired Auditory Deprivation: A Systematic Review and Coordinate-Based Meta-Analysis

scientific article published in 2022

Brain imaging of clinical pain states: a critical review and strategies for future studies

scientific article published on December 2006

Central representation of the RIII flexion reflex associated with overt motor reaction: An fMRI study

scientific article published on 02 August 2007

Chapter 32 Brain imaging of pain

scientific article published in January 2006

Characterization of a novel model of tonic heat pain stimulation in healthy volunteers

scientific article published on 22 January 2008

Comments on Coggeshall et al., PAIN, 52 (1992) 233-242

scientific article published on 01 September 1993

Comments on Maves et al., Pain, 54 (1993) 57-69

scientific article published on 01 January 1994

Compensatory plasticity and cross-modal reorganization following early visual deprivation

scientific article published on 15 August 2013

Congenital blindness affects diencephalic but not mesencephalic structures in the human brain

scientific article published on 6 January 2015

Corrigendum: Prevalence of increases in functional connectivity in visual, somatosensory and language areas in congenital blindness.

scientific article

Cortical representation of inward and outward radial motion in man.

scientific article published in December 2001

Cross-modal plasticity in early blindness

scientific article published in December 2005

Cross-modal plasticity revealed by electrotactile stimulation of the tongue in the congenitally blind

scientific article published on 5 January 2005

Crossmodal recruitment of the ventral visual stream in congenital blindness

scientific article

Efficacy and safety of oral tramadol and pentazocine for postoperative pain following prolapsed intervertebral disc repair.

scientific article

Electrical stimulation of the ventroposterolateral thalamic nucleus (VPL) reduces mechanical allodynia in a rat model of neuropathic pain.

scientific article published in February 1993

Emotional valence modulates activity in the posterior fusiform gyrus and inferior medial prefrontal cortex in social perception

scientific article published in March 2003

Enhanced chemosensory detection of negative emotions in congenital blindness

scientific article

Enhanced heat discrimination in congenital blindness

scientific article published on 29 January 2015

Facial pain: from animal models to functional neuroimaging studies.

scientific article published in March 2001

Functional imaging of allodynia in complex regional pain syndrome

scientific article published on 01 October 2006

Further evidence for myelinated as well as unmyelinated fibre damage in a rat model of neuropathic pain

scientific article published on January 1992

Hypersensitivity to pain in congenital blindness

scientific article published in October 2013

Impact of Global Mean Normalization on Regional Glucose Metabolism in the Human Brain

scientific article published on 12 June 2018

Increased sensitivity to supra-threshold painful stimuli in patients with multiple functional somatic symptoms (MFS).

scientific article published on 17 March 2010

Insights from darkness: what the study of blindness has taught us about brain structure and function

scientific article published on January 2011

Is the placebo powerless?

Long term clinical outcome of peripheral nerve stimulation in patients with chronic peripheral neuropathic pain

scientific article published on 7 August 2009

MEG reveals a fast pathway from somatosensory cortex to occipital areas via posterior parietal cortex in a blind subject

scientific article published on 5 August 2013

Making sense of the chemical senses

scientific article

Mechanisms of central pain

scientific article published on 01 January 1997

Melatonin and cortisol profiles in the absence of light perception

scientific article

Morphometric changes of the corpus callosum in congenital blindness.

scientific article

Multimodal therapeutic assessment of peripheral nerve stimulation in neuropathic pain: five case reports with a 20-year follow-up

scientific article

Multiple chemical sensitivity: on the scent of central sensitization

scientific article published on 8 April 2012

Naloxone-insensitive epidural placebo analgesia in a chronic pain patient.

scientific article published in June 2007

Navigation with a sensory substitution device in congenitally blind individuals

scientific article published on 01 May 2011

Negative BOLD signal changes in ipsilateral primary somatosensory cortex are associated with perfusion decreases and behavioral evidence for functional inhibition

scientific article published on 4 December 2011

Neural correlates of olfactory processing in congenital blindness

scientific article

Neural correlates of taste perception in congenital blindness.

scientific article published on 21 February 2015

Neural correlates of taste perception in congenital olfactory impairment

scientific article published on 29 July 2014

Neural correlates of virtual route recognition in congenital blindness

scientific article

Neural mechanisms of voluntary and involuntary recall: a PET study

scientific article published on 26 August 2007

Neuromodulation of pain. A consensus statement prepared in Brussels 16-18 January 1998 by the following task force of the European Federation of IASP Chapters (EFIC)

scientific article published on 01 January 1998

No evidence for generalized increased postoperative responsiveness to pain: a combined behavioral and serial functional magnetic resonance imaging study

scientific article

Odor perception and odor awareness in congenital blindness

scientific article published on 12 January 2011

Orbitofrontal cortex involvement in chronic analgesic-overuse headache evolving from episodic migraine

scientific article

Organization of the commissural fiber system in congenital and late-onset blindness

scientific article published on 14 December 2019

Pain hypersensitivity in congenital blindness is associated with faster central processing of C-fibre input

scientific article

Pain perception is increased in congenital but not late onset blindness

scientific article

Painful tonic heat stimulation induces GABA accumulation in the prefrontal cortex in man.

scientific article

Parkinson's disease and changes in the appreciation of art: A comparison of aesthetic and formal evaluations of paintings between PD patients and healthy controls

scientific article published on 03 September 2019

Pattern-motion selectivity in the human pulvinar.

scientific article published on 18 July 2005

Photochemically-induced ischemia of the rat sciatic nerve produces a dose-dependent and highly reproducible mechanical, heat and cold allodynia, and signs of spontaneous pain ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 1998

Positron emission tomography study of a chronic pain patient successfully treated with somatosensory thalamic stimulation

scientific article published on September 2000

Preserved sleep microstructure in blind individuals.

scientific article published on 7 December 2017

Prevalence of increases in functional connectivity in visual, somatosensory and language areas in congenital blindness

scientific article

Quantitative rates of brain glucose metabolism distinguish minimally conscious from vegetative state patients

scientific article

Rapid eye movements are reduced in blind individuals

scientific article published on 26 April 2019

Recovery of anterograde amnesia in a case of craniopharyngioma.

scientific article published in December 2004

Recruitment of the middle temporal area by tactile motion in congenital blindness

scientific article

Reduced taste sensitivity in congenital blindness

scientific article

Reorganization of Sound Location Processing in the Auditory Cortex of Blind Humans

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Response characteristics of spinal cord dorsal horn neurons in chronic allodynic rats after spinal cord injury

scientific article published on 01 September 2004

Response to letter to the editor

scientific article published on 27 November 2013

Resting-state functional connectivity and cortical thickness characterization of a patient with Charles Bonnet syndrome

scientific article published on 18 July 2019

Scratching behaviour in arthritic rats: a sign of chronic pain or itch?

scientific article published on 01 April 1987

Sensory deprivation and brain plasticity.

scientific article published on 9 October 2012

Separate neural pathways for contour and biological-motion cues in motion-defined animal shapes

scientific article published in June 2003

Serotonin transporter binding in the hypothalamus correlates negatively with tonic heat pain ratings in healthy subjects: a [11C]DASB PET study

scientific article

Simultaneous Assessment of White Matter Changes in Microstructure and Connectedness in the Blind Brain

scientific article published on 5 January 2016

Sleep structure in blindness is influenced by circadian desynchrony

scientific article

Spinal cord stimulation in Belgium: a nation-wide survey on the incidence, indications and therapeutic efficacy by the health insurer.

scientific article published in February 1994

Stimulation of human thalamus for pain relief: possible modulatory circuits revealed by positron emission tomography.

scientific article

Superior orthonasal but not retronasal olfactory skills in congenital blindness

scientific article

Systemic lidocaine induces expansion of the receptive field of spinal dorsal horn neurons in rats

scientific article

TMS of the occipital cortex induces tactile sensations in the fingers of blind Braille readers

scientific article published on 24 August 2007

Tactile maze solving in congenitally blind individuals

scientific article published in October 2010

Tactile-'visual' acuity of the tongue in early blind individuals

scientific article published in December 2007

Thalamocortical Connectivity and Microstructural Changes in Congenital and Late Blindness.

scientific article published on 13 March 2017

The Minimal Energetic Requirement of Sustained Awareness after Brain Injury

scientific article (publication date: June 2016)

The cognitive modulation of pain: hypnosis- and placebo-induced analgesia

scientific article

The nature of consciousness in the visually deprived brain

scientific article published on 14 February 2011

The sensory construction of dreams and nightmare frequency in congenitally blind and late blind individuals

scientific article

Therapeutic stereotactic procedures on the thalamus for pain

scientific article

Transcranial magnetic stimulation of the visual cortex induces somatotopically organized qualia in blind subjects

scientific article

Uncertainty about the intensity of impending pain increases ensuing pain responses in congenital blindness

scientific article published on 7 December 2017

Well, if they like it... Effects of social groups’ ratings and price information on the appreciation of art

What can the neurosurgeon offer in peripheral neuropathic pain?

scientific article published on 01 January 1993

Why would Parkinson's disease lead to sudden changes in creativity, motivation, or style with visual art?: A review of case evidence and new neurobiological, contextual, and genetic hypotheses

scientific article published on 08 January 2019

rTMS of the occipital cortex abolishes Braille reading and repetition priming in blind subjects

scientific article

List of works by Ron Kupers

A PET [18F]altanserin study of 5-HT2A receptor binding in the human brain and responses to painful heat stimulation

A model of transient hyperalgesia in the behaving monkey induced by topical application of capsaicin.

A positron emission tomography study of wind-up pain in chronic postherniotomy pain.

A thalamocortical pathway for fast rerouting of tactile information to occipital cortex in congenital blindness

A time course analysis of the changes in spontaneous and evoked behaviour in a rat model of neuropathic pain

Activation of the hippocampal complex during tactile maze solving in congenitally blind subjects

Adaptive neuroplastic responses in early and late hemispherectomized monkeys

Alterations in right posterior hippocampus in early blind individuals

Alterations of the visual pathways in congenital blindness

Altered sleep-wake patterns in blindness: a combined actigraphy and psychometric study

Analgesic and placebo effects of thalamic stimulation.

Are Supramodality and Cross-Modal Plasticity the Yin and Yang of Brain Development? From Blindness to Rehabilitation

As time goes by: temporal constraints on emotional activation of inferior medial prefrontal cortex

Aδ and not C fibers mediate thermal hyperalgesia to short laser stimuli after burn injury in man

Beyond visual, aural and haptic movement perception: hMT+ is activated by electrotactile motion stimulation of the tongue in sighted and in congenitally blind individuals

Blindness alters the microstructure of the ventral but not the dorsal visual stream

Blindness and Consciousness: New Light from the Dark

Brain Morphological Modifications in Congenital and Acquired Auditory Deprivation: A Systematic Review and Coordinate-Based Meta-Analysis

Brain imaging of clinical pain states: a critical review and strategies for future studies

Central representation of the RIII flexion reflex associated with overt motor reaction: An fMRI study

Chapter 32 Brain imaging of pain

Characterization of a novel model of tonic heat pain stimulation in healthy volunteers

Comments on Coggeshall et al., PAIN, 52 (1992) 233-242

Comments on Maves et al., Pain, 54 (1993) 57-69

Compensatory plasticity and cross-modal reorganization following early visual deprivation

Congenital blindness affects diencephalic but not mesencephalic structures in the human brain

Corrigendum: Prevalence of increases in functional connectivity in visual, somatosensory and language areas in congenital blindness.

Cortical representation of inward and outward radial motion in man.

Cross-modal plasticity in early blindness

Cross-modal plasticity revealed by electrotactile stimulation of the tongue in the congenitally blind

Crossmodal recruitment of the ventral visual stream in congenital blindness

Efficacy and safety of oral tramadol and pentazocine for postoperative pain following prolapsed intervertebral disc repair.

Electrical stimulation of the ventroposterolateral thalamic nucleus (VPL) reduces mechanical allodynia in a rat model of neuropathic pain.

Emotional valence modulates activity in the posterior fusiform gyrus and inferior medial prefrontal cortex in social perception

Enhanced chemosensory detection of negative emotions in congenital blindness

Enhanced heat discrimination in congenital blindness

Facial pain: from animal models to functional neuroimaging studies.

Functional imaging of allodynia in complex regional pain syndrome

Further evidence for myelinated as well as unmyelinated fibre damage in a rat model of neuropathic pain

Hypersensitivity to pain in congenital blindness

Impact of Global Mean Normalization on Regional Glucose Metabolism in the Human Brain

Increased sensitivity to supra-threshold painful stimuli in patients with multiple functional somatic symptoms (MFS).

Insights from darkness: what the study of blindness has taught us about brain structure and function

Is the placebo powerless?

Long term clinical outcome of peripheral nerve stimulation in patients with chronic peripheral neuropathic pain

MEG reveals a fast pathway from somatosensory cortex to occipital areas via posterior parietal cortex in a blind subject

Making sense of the chemical senses

Mechanisms of central pain

Melatonin and cortisol profiles in the absence of light perception

Morphometric changes of the corpus callosum in congenital blindness.

Multimodal therapeutic assessment of peripheral nerve stimulation in neuropathic pain: five case reports with a 20-year follow-up

Multiple chemical sensitivity: on the scent of central sensitization

Naloxone-insensitive epidural placebo analgesia in a chronic pain patient.

Navigation with a sensory substitution device in congenitally blind individuals

Negative BOLD signal changes in ipsilateral primary somatosensory cortex are associated with perfusion decreases and behavioral evidence for functional inhibition

Neural correlates of olfactory processing in congenital blindness

Neural correlates of taste perception in congenital blindness.

Neural correlates of taste perception in congenital olfactory impairment

Neural correlates of virtual route recognition in congenital blindness

Neural mechanisms of voluntary and involuntary recall: a PET study

Neuromodulation of pain. A consensus statement prepared in Brussels 16-18 January 1998 by the following task force of the European Federation of IASP Chapters (EFIC)

No evidence for generalized increased postoperative responsiveness to pain: a combined behavioral and serial functional magnetic resonance imaging study

Odor perception and odor awareness in congenital blindness

Orbitofrontal cortex involvement in chronic analgesic-overuse headache evolving from episodic migraine

Organization of the commissural fiber system in congenital and late-onset blindness

Pain hypersensitivity in congenital blindness is associated with faster central processing of C-fibre input

Pain perception is increased in congenital but not late onset blindness

Painful tonic heat stimulation induces GABA accumulation in the prefrontal cortex in man.

Parkinson's disease and changes in the appreciation of art: A comparison of aesthetic and formal evaluations of paintings between PD patients and healthy controls

Pattern-motion selectivity in the human pulvinar.

Photochemically-induced ischemia of the rat sciatic nerve produces a dose-dependent and highly reproducible mechanical, heat and cold allodynia, and signs of spontaneous pain ⬇️

Positron emission tomography study of a chronic pain patient successfully treated with somatosensory thalamic stimulation

Preserved sleep microstructure in blind individuals.

Prevalence of increases in functional connectivity in visual, somatosensory and language areas in congenital blindness

Quantitative rates of brain glucose metabolism distinguish minimally conscious from vegetative state patients

Rapid eye movements are reduced in blind individuals

Recovery of anterograde amnesia in a case of craniopharyngioma.

Recruitment of the middle temporal area by tactile motion in congenital blindness

Reduced taste sensitivity in congenital blindness