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George Paxinos
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Professor George Paxinos, BA MA PhD DSc |
Personal history
George
Paxinos completed his BA at The University of California at
Berkeley, his PhD at McGill University and spent a
postdoctoral year at Yale University. He is the author of The
Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates, which is ranked by
Thomson ISI amongst the 50
most cited items in the Web of Science. He has also written another
30 books on the structure of the brain of humans and
experimental animals.
Current Appointment
NHMRC Senior
Principal Research Fellow
Conjoint
Professor, School of Medical Sciences, Adjunct Professor School
of Psychology, UNSW
Current Projects
Identification
of rhombomeres in mammals on the basis of avian homologies and
transgenic mice
Atlases of the
rat and human spinal cord
Homologies
between the cortex and humans and other primates.
The
organization of the spinal cord of the rat, mouse and human.
The
organization of the human hypothalamus.
Development of
the mouse brain.
3D
reconstructions of the brain of the mouse and rat.
Research Staff
Mr Peter Zhao,
Research Assistant
Dr Claire Heise,
Postdoctoral Fellow
Key Publications
Paxinos G and Watson
C, The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates, 6th Ed, Elsevier
Academic Press, San Diego, 2007
Paxinos G, Halliday G,
Watson C, Koutcherov Y, Wang HQ, Atlas of the Developing Mouse
Brain at E17.5, P0 and P6, Elsevier, San Diego, 2007
Paxinos G,
Kus L, Ashwell K and Watson C, Chemoarchitectonic Atlas of the
Rat Forebrain, Academic Press, San Diego, 1999.
Paxinos G, Carrive P, Wang H, and Wang P-Y.
Chemoarchitectonic Atlas of the Rat Brainstem, Academic Press,
San Diego, 1999.
Paxinos G,
Huang X-F and Toga AW, The Rhesus Monkey Brain in Stereotaxic
Coordinates, Academic Press, San Diego, 2000.
Paxinos G
and Franklin K.B.J., The Mouse Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates,
Second Edition, Academic Press, San Diego, 2001.
Mai JK, Assheuer J and Paxinos G, Atlas of the Human
Brain, 2nd Ed, Academic Press, San Diego, Elsevier
Academic Press (2004).
Paxinos G
and Mai JK, (Ed) The Human Nervous System, Second Edition,
Elsevier Academic Press, San Diego, 2004.
Paxinos G
and Franklin KBJ, The mouse Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates,
Compact 2nd edition, Elsevier Academic Press, San
Diego, 2004.
Koutcherov Y,
Mai JK, Ashwell KWS and Paxinos G. The organization
of the human paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus, The Journal
of Comparative Neurology, 423: 299-318, 2000
Koutcherov Y,
Mai JK and Paxinos G. The hypothalamus of the human fetus,
J Chemical Neuroanatomy, 26: 253-270, 2003
Paxinos G (Ed), The Rat Nervous System (3e), Elsevier, SD,
2004.
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