Professor Steve Edgley

We are interested in how movements are controlled by neural circuits. Our everyday movements are performed with little conscious thought and are remarkably precise. Despite what the textbooks tell you, the neural mechanisms by which this is accomplished are poorly understood. We work at several levels, particularly at the spinal cord and cerebellum.

My work involves electrophysiology, recording and analysing the signals neurons use to talk to each other. Most current work relates to the cerebellum, which has a well defined circuitry, and how it contributes to a learning process that  ‘automates’ movements.

James Phillips (PhD student)

Jack Curtis (PhD student)

Stuart Baker (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)

Elzbieta Jankowska (Gotheburg, Sweden)

Sue Jones (Cambridge UK)

Chris Yeo (UCL, London)

Samit Chakrabarty (leeds UK http://www.fbs.leeds.ac.uk/staff/profile.php?tag=Chakrabarty_S )

Mark Baker (Newcastle UK http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ion/staff/profile/markbaker.html#publications)

Nick Aggelopoulos (Leibniz Institute Magdeburg http://www.lin-magdeburg.de/en/ifn_mp.jsp?member=naggelop&fc=A)

Wei Xu (Newcastle UK, http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ion/staff/profile/weixu.html#research)