Roland Philipp, PhD. MSc.

Affiliations:

Neurophysiology

National Institute of Neuroscience, Kodaira, Tokyo, Japan

Area:

Mirror Neurons, premotor cortex, PMd, PMv, F5, M1, Superior colliculus, eye-hand coordination, systems neuroscience, visual system, motor system, macaque monkey, grasp

Website:

http://www.ncnp.go.jp/nin/guide/r_model/index-e.html

Google:

"Roland Philipp"

Bio:

I received my MSc at the Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany) in Klaus-Peter Hoffmann's Lab where I recorded from the extra striate visual cortex from anaesthetised pigmented and albino ferrets (Mustela putorius furo). I localised a circumscribed cortical area (PSS) which contains direction selective neurons and shares specific characteristics with the primate medial superior temporal area (MST) (Philipp et al., 2006).
I receive my PhD in the same lab investigating if and how the Superior Colliculus (SC) is involved in the control of visually guided arm movements. Using three different approaches I demonstrated that a) electrical microstimulation elicits arm movements in a naïve monkey (Macaca mulatta) (Philipp and Hoffmann, 2014), b) influences an ongoing movement plan, and c) that sudden target perturbations are reflected in the discharge of collicular reach neurons.
After my PhD thesis I was working as a research associate on the Mirror Neuron Project at the UCL Institute of Neurology in Roger Lemon’s lab. The main focus of my work was the recording, analysis and interpretation of the oculomotor pattern from two monkeys while participating in an interactive mirror task requiring action execution and action observation (Philipp et al. in prep.). In the same project we demonstrated the existence of corticospinal mirror neurons in M1 and discussed their role in movement suppression during action observation (Vigneshwaran, Philipp, Lemon and Kraskov, 2013).
Since October 2014 I‘m a research associate in the Department of Neurophysiology of the NCNP (Tokyo, Japan) in Dr Kazuhiko Seki’s lab. I will investigate the mechanisms which lead to the cortical and subcortical adaptations after modification of the monkey's musculoskeletal system following forearm tendon cross-union. The CNS should adapt to this change, but its details are largely unknown. The goal is to establish a primate model that offers us to explore a neural correlate of this adaptation.

(Show less)

Mean distance: 15.69 (cluster 17)

S

N

B

C

P