Website Stuart's page at UA Name Douglas Stuart | Employer University of Arizona | |
Born October 5, 1931 (age 92) ( 1931-10-05 ) Casino, New South Wales, Australia Organization Department of Physiology Known for Neuroscience, Fatigue, Aging, Electromyography, Motor Control Title Regents' Professor Emeritus of Physiology Education University of California, Los Angeles (1957–1961) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada | ||
Douglas g stuart phd dsc hc neurophysiologist
Douglas G. Stuart (born October 5, 1931) is a Regents' professor emeritus of Physiology at the University of Arizona. He became a naturalized US citizen in 1961. He is married and has four children and seven grandchildren.
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- Douglas g stuart phd dsc hc neurophysiologist
- Contributions in neuroscience
- Other achievements
- Awards
- References
Contributions in neuroscience
Stuart is known worldwide 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.
In recent years Stuart has focussed on writing historical articles and reviews on the history of neuroscience in general, and movement neuroscience in particular.
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, Nicosia, Cyprus; Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences, Ibaraki, Japan; Institute of Biophysics, 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).