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George Paxinos

Professor George Paxinos  AO PhD DSc Hon Dr (Athens) FAA FASSA

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 34 books on the structure of the brain of humans and experimental animals.

Current Appointment

• NHMRC Australia Fellow

• Conjoint Professor, School of Medical Sciences, UNSW

• Visiting Professor School of Psychology, UNSW

Current Projects

• Homologies between the cortex of humans and other primates

• The organization of the spinal cord of the rat, mouse and human through the construction of atlases

• Rhombomeres and mouse brain development

• 3D reconstructions of the brain of the mouse and rat

• Segmentation of MR images of the mouse brain

Research Staff

• Prof Charles Watson, Senior Principle Research Fellow

• Dr Yuhong Fu, Postdoctoral Fellow

• Dr Yue Qi, Postdoctoral Fellow

• Mr Andy Liang, PhD student

• Mr Peter Zhao, Research Assistant

• Ms Mary O'Brien, Administration Assistant

• Ms Laksmi Govindasamy, Research Administration Assistant

Key Publications

1. Paxinos, G., and Huang, X.-F., The Human Brainstem, Academic Press,San Diego, 1995.

2. Paxinos, G and Mai, JK, (Ed) The Human Nervous System, 2^nd Ed, Academic Press, San Diego, 2004.

3. Paxinos, G (Ed), The Rat Nervous System, Third Edition, Academic Press, San Diego, 2004.

4. Paxinos, G and Watson, C, The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates, 6^th Ed, Academic Press, San Diego, 2007.

5. Paxinos, G, Halliday, G, Watson, C, Koutcherov, Y, and Wang, HQ, Atlas of the Developing Mouse Brain at E17.5, P0, and P6, Academic Press, San Diego, 2007

6. Puelles, L, Martinez-de-la-Torre M, Paxinos, G, Watson, C , and Martinez, S,  The Chick Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates: An atlas correlating avian and mammalian neuroanatomy, Academic Press, San Diego, 2007.

7. Franklin, KBJ, Paxinos, G, The Mouse Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates, 3^rd Ed, Academic Press, San Diego, 2007.

8. Mai, JK, Paxinos, G and Voss, T, Atlas of the Human Brain, 3^rd Ed, Academic Press, 2008.

9. Ashwell, KWS and Paxinos, G, Atlas of the Developing Rat Nervous System, 3rd Ed, Academic Press, San Diego, 2008.

10. Paxinos, G, Huang, X-F, Petrides, M and Toga, AW, The Rhesus Monkey Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates, 2^nd Ed, Academic Press, San Diego, 2009.

11. Watson, C, Paxinos G, Kayialoglou, G, The Spinal Cord, A Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation Text and Atlas, Academic Press, San Diego, 2009.

12. Paxinos G, Watson C, Ashwell KWS, Carrive P, Kirkcaldie M, Chemoarchitectonic Atlas of the Rat Brain, Academic Press, San Diego, 2009.

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