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aab44b3dcdeb886773890fd6ebe6c4a7 jobTitle Senior Lecturer in Neuroscience
aab44b3dcdeb886773890fd6ebe6c4a7 research overview <span class="GramE"><font size="2"><div><strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><div><strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Functional neural circuits in the prefrontal cortex</span></strong></div></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></span></strong></div></font></span><span class="GramE"><div><font size="2">The prefrontal areas of the mammalian brain are involved in&lsquo;higher order brain functions&rsquo; such as cognition and goal-directed behaviours. Whilst the prefrontal cortex is known to be selectively affected by devastating neurological and psychological disorders (including Alzheimer&rsquo;s disease, schizophrenia and depression), the neuroanatomical correlates are poorly defined. My main research interest concerns the structural and functional connectivity of the prefrontal cortex<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">and related limbic regions</span></font><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">in a variety of mammalian species, including man.</span></div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The ambitious research investigates the interconnectivity of neural networks in specific areas of the prefrontal cortex at a number of correlated levels of analysis ranging from neurochemically identified synaptic connections to functionally characterized neural circuits&ndash; not only as a result of normal development but alsoin specific behavioural paradigms.</span></div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The overall remit of the research is to identify key neural circuits in the prefrontal cortex that are specifically compromised in human brain disorders with the aim of identifying possible pharmacotherapeutic interventions.</span></div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></span></div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></span></div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></span></div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></span></div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></span></div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></span></div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></span></div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></span></div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Member of the Editorial Review Board for Brain Research.</span></div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Reviewer for specialist scientific journals: Brain Research, Neuroscience, Journal of Comparative Neurology, Neural Structure and Function, Cerebral Cortex, Journal of Neuroscience&nbsp;and Hippocampus.</span></div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Reviewer for grant awarding bodies: National Science Foundation (USA), MRC (UK), Wellcome Trust and&nbsp;Austrian Science Fund.</span></div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></span></div></span><font size="2"><font size="+0"><div style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36.75pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Models of neuronal and synaptic organisation of the mammalian prefrontal cortex</span></div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Efferent synaptic connectivity of projection neurons in prefrontal cortex.</span></div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Amygdala input to corticospinal neurons in prelimbic cortex.</span></div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Layer 1&lsquo;Thorn cells&rsquo; in prefrontal cortex.</span></div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Subpopulations of corticospinal neurons in prelimbic cortex.</span></div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Morphology and three-dimensional synaptic connectivity of hilar&lsquo;Mossy-cells&rsquo;.</span></div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Quantitative definition of infralimbic cortical innervation of the periaqueductal grey.</span></div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Ultrastructural effects of beta-amyloid on the prelimbic cortex and hippocampus.</span></div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Projections from rat infralimbic cortex (area 25) to catecholaminergic brain stem neurons.</span></div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><strong>Collaborations</strong></span></div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Promemoria EU Framework 6 Integrated Research Consortium:</span></div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Professor Carmen Sandi, Mind-Brain Institute, Lausanne. Switzerland.</span></div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Professor Marina Lynch, Neuroscience Institute, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.</span></div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Professor Elizabeth Bock, Pannum Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.</span></div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Professor Gal Richter-Levin, Dept. of Physiology, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel.</span></div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Professor Serge Karnup, Dept of Physiology and Pharmacology, State University of New York, New York.</span></div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Professor Victor Popov, Institute of Cell Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Puschino, Russia.</span></div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Professor Wolfram Schultz, Dept of Anatomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England</span></div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Professor Edmund Rolls, Dept. Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, England.</span></div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></span></div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">See also:<a href="http://www.open.ac.uk/personalpages/p.l.gabbott/">http://www.open.ac.uk/personalpages/p.l.gabbott/</a></span></div></span></div></span></div></font></font>
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aab44b3dcdeb886773890fd6ebe6c4a7 biography <div><div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Paul Gabbott has an honours degree in Physics and Biological Sciences from Keele University and a PhD in Quantitative Neuroanantomy from The Open University. Before returning to the Open University in 2003, he undertook neuroanatomical research at Oxford University where he was initially a Beit Memorial Research Fellow and then a Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellow in the University Department of Pharmacology. Latterly he was an MRC Research Fellow in the Interdisciplinary Research Centre in the Department of Experimental Psychology at Oxford.</span></div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></span></div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">See also:<a href="http://www.open.ac.uk/personalpages/p.l.gabbott/">http://www.open.ac.uk/personalpages/p.l.gabbott/</a></span></div></div></div>
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aab44b3dcdeb886773890fd6ebe6c4a7 Description <div><div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Paul Gabbott has an honours degree in Physics and Biological Sciences from Keele University and a PhD in Quantitative Neuroanantomy from The Open University. Before returning to the Open University in 2003, he undertook neuroanatomical research at Oxford University where he was initially a Beit Memorial Research Fellow and then a Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellow in the University Department of Pharmacology. Latterly he was an MRC Research Fellow in the Interdisciplinary Research Centre in the Department of Experimental Psychology at Oxford.</span></div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></span></div><div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">See also:<a href="http://www.open.ac.uk/personalpages/p.l.gabbott/">http://www.open.ac.uk/personalpages/p.l.gabbott/</a></span></div></div></div>
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