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George Paxinos

 

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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