Sten Grillner
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Notable neuroscientists like Eric Kandel, 2000 Nobel laureates in physiology or medicine named Grillner's work on the workings of complex neurocircuitry extremely important and this progress in understanding motor systems, the cognitive role in motor systems, is a brilliant advance and has revolutionized our understanding of how the nervous system is wired.
Prof. Grillner studied at the medical faculty in Gothenburg, Sweden, and received his Doctor of Medicine (MD); PhD in neurophysiology in 1969. He has been a Professor and Director of the Nobel Institute for Neurophysiology at the Karolinska Institute since 1987. He is a member of the Academia Europaea, Royal Swedish Academy of Science, National Academy of Sciences (US), Institute of Medicine (US) and former member, deputy chair and chairperson between 1988 and 2008 of the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet which awards Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and has received a number of awards including the Bristol-Myers Squibb Award in 1993 and the Reeve–Irvine award in 2002. He was the co-recipient of the 2005 SfN Ralph Gerard Prize, highest recognition conferred by Society for Neuroscience and he was a co-recipient, with Thomas Jessell and Pasko Rakic, of the inaugural Kavli Prize for Neuroscience in 2008. Provided by Wikipedia
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9by Brita Robertson, Icnelia Huerta-Ocampo, Jesper Ericsson, Marcus Stephenson-Jones, Juan Pérez-Fernández, J Paul Bolam, Rochellys Diaz-Heijtz, Sten GrillnerGet full text
Published 2012-01-01
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10by Robert Lindroos, Matthijs C. Dorst, Kai Du, Marko Filipović, Daniel Keller, Maya Ketzef, Alexander K. Kozlov, Arvind Kumar, Arvind Kumar, Mikael Lindahl, Anu G. Nair, Juan Pérez-Fernández, Sten Grillner, Gilad Silberberg, Jeanette Hellgren Kotaleski, Jeanette Hellgren KotaleskiGet full text
Published 2018-02-01
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