Douglas G. Stuart

Douglas G. Stuart
Ph.D.
Born (1931-10-05) October 5, 1931
Casino, New South Wales, Australia
Education Diploma in Physical Education Sydney Teachers' College
BS (PE; physiology) 1955; MA (PE; physiology) Michigan State University
PhD (Physiology) 1961 University of California-Los Angeles
Employer University of Arizona
Organization Department of Physiology
Known for Neuroscience, Fatigue, Aging, Electromyography, Motor Control
Title Regents' Professor Emeritus of Physiology
Awards Regents' Professor, University of Arizona 1990
Website Stuart's page at UA

Douglas G. Stuart (born October 5, 1931) is a Regents' professor emeritus of Physiology at the University of Arizona.[1] He became a naturalized US citizen in 1961. He is married and has four children and seven grandchildren.

Contributions in neuroscience

Stuart is known worldwide[2] for his research contributions in neural control of movement, in the understanding of the fundamental properties of spinal neurons, overviews on the neurobiology of motor control, and the history of movement neuroscience. He has over 130 experimental papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, and has authored almost 100 chapters, reviews and symposium volumes. His research was funded continuously by the National Institutes of Health. Between 1984 and 1991, he held the Senator Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award, and between 1976 and 1977 he was selected as a Guggenheim Fellow. Stuart coined the term "interphyletic awareness" during the organization (together with Sten Grillner (University of Stockholm and Paul Stein (Washington University, St. Louis) of three international conferences that brought together scientists working on various species, all followed by widely read symposium volumes. Stuart's lab has made exceptional contributions to the study of locomotion, and the need to integrate findings from experiments on invertebrates, non-mammalian vertebrates, mammalian tetrapods, non-human primates, and humans.[3]

In recent years Stuart has focussed on writing historical articles and reviews on the history of neuroscience in general, and movement neuroscience in particular.[4][5]

Other achievements

Almost 100 scientists from across the globe have worked with Stuart as PhD students, post-doctoral trainees or visiting professors. A number of Stuart's post-doctoral trainees are now leading research universities and institutes in the USA and worldwide (e.g., Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute,[6] Nicosia, Cyprus; Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences, Ibaraki, Japan; Institute of Biophysics,[7] Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sophia, Bulgaria; Nara Medical University, Yagi, Japan; University of Chicago, IL, USA; University of Washington, Seattle, WA; McGill University, Montreal, Canada; University College, London, UK).

Awards

References

  1. Short Bio at the university portal
  2. Satterlie RA, Oct 2007. Recent developments in neurobiology: introduction to the symposium to honor Professor Douglas G. Stuart. Integrative and Comparative Biology 4, 447- 450.
  3. Stuart DG, Oct 2007. Reflections on integrative and comparative movement neuroscience. Integrative and Comparative Biology 4, 482-504.
  4. Stuart DG, Brownstone RM, Aug 2011. The beginning of intracellular recording in spinal neurons: facts, reflections, and speculations. Brain Research 1409:62-92
  5. Stuart DG, Schaefer AT, Massion J, Graham BA, Callister RJ, Feb 2014. Pioneers in CNS inhibition: 1. Ivan M. Sechenov, the first to clearly demonstrate inhibition arising in the brain. Brain Research 1548, 20-48
  6. Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute Website
  7. Institute of Biophysics in Bulgaria
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Wednesday, May 04, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.