Publications (selection)

Numbers corresponding publication list 

Membrane Physiology

  • Bromm B and Frankenhaeuser B (1968)
    Numerical calculation of the response in the myelinated nerve to short symmetrical double pulses
    Pflügers Arch. 229, 357-363
  • Bromm B (1969)
    Sodium inward rectification and repetitive activity in the nodal membrane (Natrium-Gleichrichtung und repetitive Aktivität der Schnürringmembran)
    Habilitationsschrift für Physiologie an der Medizinischen Fakultät Kiel
  • Bromm B and Frankenhaeuser B (22)
    Repetitive discharge of the excitable membrane computed on the basis of voltage clamp data for the node of Ranvier
    Pflügers Arch. 332, 21-27 (1972)
  • Bromm B, Schwarz JR, Ochs G (75)
    A quantitative analysis of combined potential and current clamp experiments on the single myelinated nerve fibre of Rana esculenta
    J. Theoret. Neurobiol. 1, 120-133 (1981)

Receptor Physiology

  • Bromm B, Hensel H, Tagmat A (36)
    The electrosensibility of the isolated ampulla of Lorenzini in the dogfish
    J. Comp. Physiol. 111, 127-136 (1976)
  • Bromm B and Tagmat A (46)
    Regression analysis of non-stationary discharges in neurons; adaptation in the electrosensory afferent of dogfish
  • Akoev GN, Andianov RG, Szabo T, Bromm B (255/256)
    Neuropharmacological analysis of synaptic transmission in the Lorenzinian ampulla of the skate Raja clavata
    J. Comp. Physiol. A 168, 639-646, 647-652 (1991)
    Biol. Cybernetics 28, 41-49 (1977)

Nociception

  • Bromm B, Scharein E (82)
    Response plasticity of pain evoked reactions in man
    Physiol. Behavior 28, 109-116 (1982)

  • Bromm B, Neitzel H, Tecklenburg A, Treede RD (96)
    Evoked cerebral potential correlates of C-fibre activity in man
    Neurosci. Letters 43, 109-114 (1983)

  • Bromm B, Meyer W, Scharein E (95)
    Antagonism between tilidine and naloxone on cerebral potentials and pain ratings in man
    Europ. J. Pharmacol. 87, 431-440 (1983)

  • Bromm B (109)
    Pain-related components in the cerebral potential. Experimental and multivariate statistical approaches
    In: B. Bromm (ed.), Pain Measurement in Man: Neurophysiological Correlates of Pain, Chapter 18, pp. 257-291, Elsevier Press, Amsterdam (1984)

  • Chen ACN, Treede RD, Bromm B (145)
    Tonic pain inhibits phasic pain: Evoked cerebral potential correlates in man
    Psychiatry Research 14, 343-351 (1985)

  • Bromm B (148)
    Neurophysiologische Korrelate des Schmerzes beim Menschen
    In: B. Bromm und D.W. Lübbers (eds.), Physiologie Aktuell I: Hauptvorträge der Tagungen der Deutschen Physiologischen Gesellschaft, Dortmund 1984. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, 105-125 (1986)

  • Bromm B, Meier W, Scharein E (161)
    Imipramine reduces experimental pain
    Pain 25, 245-257 (1986)

  • Kochs E, Treede RD, Schulte am Esch J, Bromm B (248)
    Modulation of pain-related somatosensory evoked potentials by general anesthesia
    Anest. Analg. 71, 225-230 (1990)

  • Bromm B, Scharein E, Darsow U, Ring J (344)
    Effects of menthol and cold on histamine-induced itch and skin reactions in man
    Neurosci. Lett. 187, 157-160 (1995)

  • Kochs E, Scharein E, Möllenberg O, Bromm B (364)
    Analgesic efficacy of low dose ketamine. Somatosensory evoked responses in relation to subjective pain ratings
    Anesthesiology 86, 304-314 (1996)

  • Lorenz J, Beck H, Bromm B (379)
    Cognitive performance, mood and experimental pain before and during morphine-induced analgesia in patients with chronic non-malignant pain
    Pain 73, 369-375 (1997)

  • Reinert A, Treede RD, Bromm B (459)
    The pain inhibiting pain effect: An electrophysiological study in humans
    Brain Research 862, 103-110 (2000)

  • Darsow U, Scharein E, Simon D, Walter G, Bromm B, Ring J (501)
    New aspects of itch pathophysiology: Component analysis of atopic itch using the „Eppendorf Itch Questionnaire“
    Int. Arch. Allergy Immunol. 124, 326-331 (2001)

  • Detsch O, Kochs E, Siemers M, Bromm B, Vahle-Hinz C (517)
    Increased responsiveness of cortical neurons in contrast to thalamic neurons during isoflurane-induced EEG bursts in rats
    Neurosci. Letters 317, 9-12 (2002)

Brain Imaging of Pain Processing

  • Bromm B and Scharein E (81)
    Principal component analysis of pain related cerebral potentials to mechanical and electrical stimulation in man
    Electroenceph. Clin. Neurophysiol. 53, 94-103 (1982)

  • Bromm B, Meyer W, Scharein E (95)
    Antagonism between tilidine and naloxone on cerebral potentials and pain ratings in man
    Europ. J. Pharmacol. 87, 431-440 (1983)

  • Bromm B, Meier W, Scharein E (231)
    Pre-stimulus/post-stimulus relations in EEG spectra and their modulations by an opioid and an antidepressant
    Electroenceph. Clin. Neurophysiol. 73, 188-197 (1989)

  • Bromm B, Frieling A, Lankers J (258)
    Laser-evoked potentials in patients with dissociated loss of pain and temperature sensibility
    Electroenceph. Clin. Neurophysiol. 80, 284-291 (1991)

  • Treede RD, Lankers J, Frieling A, Zangemeister WH, Kunze K, Bromm B (268)
    Cerebral potentials evoked by painful laser stimuli in patients with syringomyelia
    Brain 114, 1595-1607 (1991)

  • Tarkka IM, Treede RD, Bromm B (289)
    Sensory and movement-related cortical potentials in nociceptive and auditory reaction time tasks
    Acta Neurol. Scand. 86, 359-364 (1992)

  • Bromm B and Chen ACN (336)
    Brain electrical source analysis of laser-evoked potentials in response to painful trigeminal nerve stimulation
    Electroencephal. Clin. Neurophysiol. 95, 14-26 (1995)

  • Kazarians H, Scharein E, Bromm B (337)
    Laser-evoked brain potentials in response to painful trigeminal nerve activation
    Int. J. Neurosci. 81, 111-122 (1995)

  • Treede RD, Apkarian AV, Bromm B, Greenspan JD, Lenz FA (460)
    Cortical representation of pain: Functional characterization of nociceptive areas near the lateral sulcus
    Pain 87, 113-119 (2000)

  • Bromm B, Scharein E, Vahle-Hinz C (461)
    Cortex areas involved in the processing of normal and altered pain
    Progress in Brain Research 129, 289-302 (2000)

  • Nakamura Y, Paur R, Zimmermann R, Bromm B (508)
    Attentional modulation of human pain processing in the secondary somatosensory cortex: A magnetoencephalographic study
    Neurosci. Lett. 328, 29-32 (2002)

  • Büchel C, Bornhovd K, Quante M, Glauche V, Bromm B, Weiller C (511)
    Dissociable neural responses related to pain intensity, stimulus intensity, and stimulus awareness within the anterior cingulate cortex: a parametric single-trial functional magnetic resonance imaging study
    J. Neurosci. 22, 970-976 (2002)

  • Bingel U, Quante M, Knab R, Bromm B, Weiller C, Büchel C (524)
    Single trial fMRI reveals significant contralateral bias in response to laser pain within thalamus and somatosensory cortices
    NeuroImage 18, 740-748 (2003)

  • Bromm B (529)
    The involvement of the posterior cingulate cortex in phasic pain processing
    Neurosci. Lett. 361, 245-249 (2004)

  • Lorenz J, Hauck M, Paur R, Nakamura Y, Zimmermann R, Bromm B, Engel A (532)
    Cortical correlates of false expectations during pain intensity judgements: a possible manifestation of placebo/nocebo cognitions
    Brain, Behavior and Immunity 19, 283-295 (2005)

  • Hauck M, Bischoff P, Schmidt G, Zimmermann R, Lorenz J, Bromm B (536)
    Clonidine effects on pain evoked SII activity in humans
    Eur. J. Pain 10, 757-765 (2006)

  • Bromm B (541)
    Wie kann Wille Schmerz lindern?
    In: Von der Freiheit, Schmerz zu spüren, eds. B. Bromm und J. H. Wolf, Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg, Vol. 7, pp. 113-136 (2017)

Books, Chapters, and Invited Reviews (selected)

  • Bromm B (ed.) (107)
    Pain Measurement in Man: Neurophysiological Correlates of Pain
    Elsevier Press, Amsterdam, 532 pages (1984)

  • Bromm B (134)
    Evoked cerebral potential and pain
    In: H.L. Fields, R. Dubner and F. Cervero (eds.), Advances in Pain Research and Therapy 9, Raven Press, New York, pp. 305-329 (1985)

  • Bromm B (131)
    Periphere Neurophysiologie: Erregung und Erregungsleitung
    In: W.D. Keidel (Ed.), Lehrbuch der Physiologie, 6. Auflage, Kapitel 14, pp. 1-50 (1985)

  • Bromm B (158, 159, 160a)
    Physiologie Aktuell
    Hauptvorträge der Tagungen der Deutschen Physiologischen Gesellschaft. Band I Dortmund 1984 (mit D.W. Lübbers), Band II Berlin 1985 (mit D.W. Lübbers), Band III Berlin 1986 (mit H.P. Koepchen). Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart (1985, 1986, 1987)

  • Bromm B (224)
    Laboratory animal and human volunteer in the assessment of analgesic efficacy
    In: Advances in Pain Research and Therapy, Vol. 12, R.C. Chapman and H. Loeser (eds.), Issues in Pain Measurement, pp. 117-143, Raven Press, New York (1989)

  • Bromm B and Treede RD (267)
    Laser evoked cerebral potentials in the diagnosis of cutaneous pain sensitivity
    Rev. Neurol. (Paris) 147, 625-643 (1991)

  • Bromm B (257)
    Cerebral potentials evoked by heat stimuli assessing cutaneous sensibility loss
    In: J.S. Chopra, K. Jagannathan, I.M.S. Sawhney (eds.), Modern Trends in Neurology, pp. 159-171, B.I. Churchill Livingstone, New Delhi (1991)

  • Treede RD and Bromm B (267)
    Neurophysiological approaches to the study of spinothalamic tract function in humans
    In: K.L. Casey (ed.), Pain and Central Nervous System Disease: The Central Pain Syndromes, Raven Press, New York, pp. 117-127 (1991)

  • Bromm B (314)
    Corticalisation of chronic pain?
    Am. Pain Soc. J. (APS Journal) 3, 131-135 (1994)

  • Bromm B and Desmedt J (338)
    Pain and the Brain: From Nociception to Cognition
    In: Advances in Pain Research and Therapy, Vol. XXII, 584 pages, Raven Press, New York (1995)

  • Bromm B (378)
    Laser evoked brain potentials in the assessment of pain: Methods, applications, brain source analyses
    Pain Research (Tokyo) 12, 41-57 (1997)

  • Bromm B and Lorenz J (419)
    Neurophysiological evaluation of pain
    Electroenceph. Clin. Neurophysiol. 107, 227-253 (1998)

  • Scharein E and Bromm B (420)
    The intracutaneous pain model in the assessment of analgesic efficacy
    Pain Reviews 5, 184-246 (1998)

  • Sandkühler J, Bromm B, Gebhardt GF (eds.) (462)
    Nervous System Plasticity and Chronic Pain
    Vol. 129, Progress in Brain Research, 543 pages, Elsevier (2000)

  • Bromm B (525)
    Wie Schmerzen im Gehirn entstehen
    Spektrum der Wissenschaft 4, 40-47 (2003)

  • Bromm B and Pawlik K (Hrsg.) (531)
    Neurobiologie und Philosophie zum Schmerz
    Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 167 Seiten (2004)

  • Bromm B and Wolf JH (Hrsg.) (540)
    Von der Freiheit, Schmerz zu spüren
    De Gruyter, Berlin, 169 Seiten (2017)

Movies and TV

  • Bromm B. (50)
    Zur Psychophysiologie des Schmerzes
    Fernsehfilm ZDF, Gesundheitsmagazin, 10.07.1978

  • Bromm B, Scharein E, Treede RD (172a)
    Schmerzforschung am Physiologischen Institut in Hamburg
    VHS (1986)

  • Bromm B et al. (380a)
    Pain Measurement in Man
    (EEG and MEG Brain Mapping with Analgesics), 28 min VHS (1994)

  • Bromm B et al. (469)
    Warum chronifiziert Schmerz?
    ZDF Gesundheitsmagazin: TV-Interview mit Dr. Gerhard in Mainz, dazu Erstellung einer Live-Übertragung eines laufenden Experimentes von Hamburg nach Mainz, 28.01.2000

  • Bromm B et al. (521)
    Schmerzforschung am Universitätskrankenhaus Eppendorf
    (Physiologisches Institut, Klinik für Anaesthesiologie, Klinik für Neurologie, Arzneimittelforschung Berlin u.a.), 35 min VHS (2002)