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Robert LaMotte, PhD

Emeritus Faculty
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Anesthesiology

PO Box 208051, 333 Cedar Street, TMP 3

New Haven, CT 06520-8051

United States

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Emeritus Faculty

Biography

Dr. Robert H. LaMotte is a Professor of Anesthesiology and of Neuroscience at the Yale School of Medicine. Before joining Yale, Dr. LaMotte was a PHS Postdoctoral Fellow of Physiology and an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Physiology at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He received his MS and PhD from Kansas State University and became a NASA Fellow of Psychology there in 1964. Dr. LaMotte received the Jacob K. Javits Neuroscience Award in 1984 and again in 1991. He was the Associate Editor of The Journal of Neuroscience from 1981 to 1985 and has been on the Editorial Board of a range of medical journals, most recently, Pain Forum and The Journal of Pain. Dr. LaMotte now runs his own laboratory at the Yale School of Medicine using the methods of single-cell electrophysiology and sensory psychophysics to study the peripheral neural mechanisms of pain and itch in humans and animals.

Appointments

Education & Training

Fellow
Johns Hopkins University (1970)
PhD
Kansas State University (1968)
Fellow
Kansas State University (1966)

Research

Overview

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Anesthesiology; Nervous System; Neurochemistry; Neurons; Neurophysiology; Nociceptive Pain; Pain

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Robert LaMotte's published research.

Publications

2024

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

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Anesthesiology

PO Box 208051, 333 Cedar Street, TMP 3

New Haven, CT 06520-8051

United States