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Scientia Professor

George Paxinos


Current Appointments

NHMRC Senior Principal Research Scientist, NeuRA
Conjoint Scientia Professor of the School of Medical Sciences, UNSW

Key Research Areas

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Professor George Paxinos is the scientist who mapped the brain of humans and the principal experimental animals. He studied at Berkeley, McGill and Yale and was a visiting scientist at Cambridge, Oxford, Stanford and UCLA. As brain cartographers before him, he publishes his work principally in books, 57 in his case. His first, The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates, is the most cited publication in neuroscience and, for three decades, the third most cited book in science.

The First edition of his Atlas of the Human Brain received The Award for Excellence in Publishing in Medical Science from The Association of American Publishers (AAP) and the latest edition the British Medical Association Illustrated Book Award. His Human Brainstem was a 2020 PROSE Award finalist (AAP).

After a 21-year effort, Paxinos wrote a novel in the environmental genre: Orwellian in its encapsulation of the quintessential moral and social dilemmas of the 21st century, A River Divided shows Paxinos is also a storyteller. Cloned ancient genes skip two thousand years to produce identical twins who are raised apart, unaware of the others existence, but destined to clash in an almighty battle for the Amazon. You can order the novel at georgepaxinos.com.au or at Booktopia.com.au, Amazon.com.au, Bookdepository.com (for outside Australia).

Click here to see a presentation of relevant photographs from research trips to Israel, Greece, the Vatican, the Brazilian Amazon and Bueno Aires. You can also access the song from the Greek language version of the book.

A River Divided by George Paxinos

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Read 'A River Divided' here

Prof Paxinos' most significant atlases and books
The Paxinos and Watson Collaboration

Nissl and AChE Staining Protocols for Beginners

A Ch E Stain Protocol 800x1132
Cresyl Violet Nissl Stain Protocol 800x1132

Publications

2024 Jan

The Blood‐Brain Barrier in Both Humans and Rats: A Perspective From 3D Imaging

View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1155/2024/4482931

2022, 31 Oct

The anatomy of obsessive-compulsive disorder

View full preprint on https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.10.06.22280808

2022, 18 Oct

HumanBrainAtlas: an in vivo MRI dataset for detailed segmentations

View full preprint on https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.10.16.511844

2020, 18 Sep

Subcortical Atlas of the Rhesus Macaque (SARM) for Magnetic Resonance Imaging

View full other on https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.16.300053

2019

The Chick Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates and Alternate Stains: Featuring Neuromeric Divisions and Mammalian Homologies

2018

3D imaging of PSD-95 in the mouse brain using the advanced CUBIC method

2018

Kif1bp loss in mice leads to defects in the peripheral and central nervous system and perinatal death (vol 6, 2017)

2018

Odor Enrichment Increases Hippocampal Neuron Numbers in Mouse

2018

Publisher Correction: Kif1bp loss in mice leads to defects in the peripheral and central nervous system and perinatal death

2017

An ontologically consistent MRI-based atlas of the mouse diencephalon