George Paxinos Author

George Paxinos AO studied at Berkeley, McGill and Yale and is professor of medical sciences at NeuRA and UNSW. He discovered 94 parts of the brain (unequaled in history) and published 59 books on the brain and spinal cord. His first book, The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates, is the most cited neuroscience publication. His Atlas of the Human Brain received awards from The Association of American Publishers and the British Medical Association. As the tide that lifts all boats, his atlases facilitate research into the relationship between the brain and neurologic or psychiatric disease. He was president of the Australian Neuroscience Society and The World Congress of Neuroscience. A River Divided is his first novel.