The Cheryl Spencer Institute for Nursing Research
Tel: 04-6647904 | email: nurs_res@univ.haifa.ac.il
Prof. Michal Granot
Research Interests
Higher Education
Recent Publications
Research Interests
- Etiology, mechanism, and expression of pain modulation processes
- Personalized pain medicine
- Women’s health and pain disorders
- Women who suffered from sexual abuse
Higher Education
Degree | Name of Institution and Department | Period of Study |
BA | Hebrew University, Department of Nursing | 1983-1987 |
MA
| Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Faculty of Medicine | 1991-1994 |
PhD | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Faculty of Medicine | 1995-1998 |
Recent Publications
- Granot, M, Dagul P., Darawsha W, & Aronson, D. (2015). Pain Modulation Efficacy Affects Delay in Seeking Medical Help in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction. Pain, 156(1), 192-198. doi: 10.1016/j.pain.0000000000000020
- Yarnitsky, D., Bouhassira, D., Drewes, A., Fillingim, RB., Granot, M., Hansson, P, Landau, R., Marchand, S., Matre, D., Nielsen, KB., Stubhaug, A., Treede, R. D., & Wilder-Smith, O. (2015). Recommendations on practice of conditioned pain modulation (CPM) testing. European Journal of Pain, 19, 805-806. org/10.1002/ejp.605
- Nahman-Averbuch, H., Yarnitsky, D., Sprecher, E., Granovsky, Y., & Granot, M. (2016). Relationship between personality traits and endogenous analgesia: the role of harm avoidance. Pain Practice, 16(1), 38-45. org/10.1111/papr.12256
- Reiner, K., Granot, M., Soffer, E., & Lipsitz, J. (2016). A Brief Mindfulness Meditation Training Increases Pain Threshold and Accelerates Modulation of Response to Tonic Pain in an Experimental Study. Pain Medicine, 17, 628-635. org/10.1111/pme.12883
- Carvalho B., Granot, M., Sultan, P., Wilson, H., & Landau, R. (2016). A Longitudinal study to evaluate pregnancy-induced endogenous analgesia and pain modulation. Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, 41(2), 175-180. doi: 10.1097/AAP.0000000000000359
- Dishon Benattar, Y., Omar, M., Zusman, O., Yahav, D., Zak-Doron, Y., Altunin, S., Elbaz M., Granot, M., Leibovicil, L., & Paul, M. (2016). The effectiveness and safety of high-dose colistin: prospective cohort study. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 63(12), 1605-1612. org/10.1093/cid/ciw684
- Drach-Zahavy, D., Buchnic, L. & Granot, M., (2016). Antecedents and consequences of emotional work in midwifery: A prospective field study. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 60, 168-178. doi: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2016.04.014
- Grinberg, K., Granot, M., Lowenstein, L., Abramov, L., & Weissman-Fogel, (2017). A common pro-nociceptive pain modulation profile typifying subgroups of chronic pelvic pain syndromes is interrelated with enhanced clinical pain. Pain, 158, 1021-1029. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000869
- Granovsky, Y., Nahman-Averbuch, H., Khamaisi, M., & Granot, M. (2017). Efficient conditioned pain modulation despite pain persistence in painful diabetic neuropathy. Pain Reports, 2(3), e592. 11 pages doi: 1097/PR9.0000000000000592
- Granot, M., Yovell, Y., Somer, E., Beny, A., Sadger, R., Uliel-Mirkin, R., & Zisman-Ilani, Y. (2018). Trauma, attachment style, and somatization: a study of women with dyspareunia and women survivors of sexual abuse. BMC Women’s Health, 18(1), 29. doi: 10.1186/s12905-018-0523-2 (6 pages)
- Kuperman, P., Granovsky, Y., Granot, M., Bahouth, H., Fadel, S., Hyams, G., Ben Lulu, H., Aspis, O., Salame, R., Begal, J., Hochstein, D., Grunner, S., Honigman, L., Reshef, M., Sprecher, E., Bosak, N., Sterling, M., & Yarnitsky, D. (2018). Psyhophysical-psychological dichotomy in very early acute mTBI pain: A prospective study. Neurology, 91(10), e931-938. doi:1212/WNL.0000000000006120
- Grinberg, K., Granot, M., Lowenstein, L., Abramov, L., & Weissman-Fogel, I.(2018). Negative illness perceptions are associated with a pro-nociceptive modulation profile and augmented pelvic pain. Clinical Journal of Pain. Advance online publication. 34 (12), 1141-1148, doi: 10.1097/AJP.0000000000000633.
- Goldblatt, H., Granot, M., & Zarbiv, E. (2019). “Death lay here on the sofa:” Reflections of young adults on their experience as caregivers of parents who died of cancer at home. Qualitative Health Research, 29, 533-544. doi: 10.1177/1049732318800676 The first two authors contributed equally to this article.
- Grinberg, K., Weissman-Fogel, I., Lowenstein, L., Abramov, L., Granot, M. (2019). Myofascial manual therapy for women with chronic pelvic pain syndrome: The underlying bio-psycho-physiological Pain Research and Management (17 pages) doi: 10.1155/2019/6091257.
- Granot, M., Dagul, P., Aronson, D. (2019). Resting blood pressure modulate chest pain intensity in patients with acute myocardial infarction. Pain Reports.F N/A 10;4(3):e714. doi: 10.1097/PR9.0000000000000714.
- Granot, M., Yaakov, S., Ramon, M. (2019). Enhanced itch intensity is associated with less-efficient descending inhibition processing for itch but not pain attenuation in chronic dermatology patients. Pain Medicine. (16 pages) I.F. 2.764, Medicine, General & Internal: 35/155 (Q1).
- Shani, A., Granot, M. Mochalov, G., Raviv, B., Rahamimov, R. (2020). Matching actual treatment with patient administration-route-preference improves analgesic response among acute-low-back-pain patients – a randomized prospective trial. Journal of Orthopedic Surgery and Research 15, 1-8. I.F. 1.907, Orthopedics: 37/76 (Q2).
- Kuperman, P., Granovsky, Y., Bahouth, H., Fadel, S., Ben Lulu, H., Bosak, N., Buxbaum, H., Sprecher, E., Crystal, S., Granot, M. (2020). Explaining Very-Early Acute mTBI Post-Motor Vehicle Collision Pain Variability: Additive Value of Pain Sensitivity Questionnaire. Pain Report 5(3), e821.
- Lev Sagie, A., Wertman, O., Lavee Y. & Granot M. Vestibular Anatomic Localization of Pain Sensitivity in Women with Insertional Dyspareunia: A Different Approach to Address the Variability of Painful Intercourse. Journal of Sexual Medicine. 9; 1-15.
- Ramon, M., Yakov, S., & Granot, M. (2020). The role of itch and pain modulation in the prediction of phototherapy outcomes. Dermatologic Therapy, 29, 1-5.
- Kuperman, P., Granovsky, Y., Bahouth, H., Fadel, S., Hyams, G., Ben Lulu, H., Aspis, O., Salame, R., Begal, J., Hochstein, D., Grunner, S., Reshef, M., Sprecher, E., Bosak, N., Yarnitsky, D. & Granot, M. (2021).Head- and neck-related symptoms post-motor vehicle collision (MVC): separate entities or two-sides of the same coin? Injury, 52(5), 1227-1233.
- Granot M, Yakov S, Kuperman P, Yosipovitch G, Ramon M. (2021). Catastrophizing thinking towards itch and pain in chronic itch patients. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol. 2021;35(3):e241-e242. doi: 10.1111/jdv.16975