George Paxinos
Professor of Psychology at the University of New South Wales

George Paxinos was educated at Berkeley, McGill and Yale. He has published 35 books on the brain of experimental animals and humans. His first atlas is the only neuroscience publication in the top 50 most cited publications in science. He identified and named 80 nuclei in mammals and 185 in birds. His nomenclature and abbreviation scheme is the most recognized internationally, and it now takes you seamlessly from development to adulthood and from mammals to birds, to the extent that homologies permit. He and his colleague Charles Watson defined the flat skull position in the rat, which is now the universally used position for stereotaxic surgeries. He has constructed the most accurate maps of the human subcortex, and is now working on the cortex. He was the President of the Australian Neuroscience Society and the President of the World Congress of Neuroscience which was successfully held in Melbourne last year.

http://www.powmri.edu.au/staff/paxinos.htm

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