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.: Lemon, Roger Nicholas

CARE Committee member

Prof. Roger Nicolas Lemon
Institute of Neurology, UCL
Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG

Phone: 020 7837 3611 Ext 4184
Fax: 020 7419 7170
E-mail: rlemon@ion.ucl.ac.uk

Curriculum Vitae

Positions held

1971-1977
Lecturer, Department of Physiology, University of Sheffield
1974-1975
Research Fellow, Department of Physiology, Monash University, Australia
1977-1984
Senior Lecturer, Department of Anatomy, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
1984-1985
Reader, Department of Anatomy, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
1985-1994
Lecturer, Department of Anatomy, University of Cambridge
1987-1994
Fellow, New Hall, Cambridge
1994-
Sobell Professor of Neurophysiology, Institute of Neurology, UCL
1994-2002
Head of Department, Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, Institute of Neurology
2002-2008
Director, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square
2006-
Visiting Professor, RIKEN BSI, Tokyo

Current appointments

Chair, European Science Foundation, Expert group of EU Directive
Ethical Review Panel, UK Centre for Macaques
Council Member, Understanding Animal Research
Associate Editor, Journal Of Neuroscience
Guarantor and Associate Editor, Brain
Receiving Editor, Neuroscience Research
External Examiner Neuroscience MSc Oxford University
Reviewing Editor

Selected Publications

  • QUALLO M M, PRICE C J, UENO K, ASAMIZUYA T, CHENG K, LEMON R N, IRIKI A. (2009) Gray and white matter changes associated with tool-use learning in macaque monkeys. PNAS 106, 18379-18384
  • KRASKOV, A., DANCAUSE, N., QUALLO, M., SHEPHERD, S., AND LEMON, R. N. (2009) Corticospinal neurons in macaque ventral premotor cortex with mirror properties: a potential mechanism for action suppression? Neuron, 64, 922-930
  • LEMON RN (2008) Descending motor pathways and motor control. Ann. Rev. Neurosci. 31, 195-218.
  • SPINKS RL, KRASKOV A, BROCHIER T, UMILTA MA, LEMON RN (2008) Selectivity for grasp in local field potential and single neuron activity recorded simultaneously from M1 and F5 in the awake macaque monkey. J. Neurosci. 28: 10961-10971
  • SCHMIDLIN E, BROCHIER T, MAIER MA, KIRKWOOD PA, LEMON RN (2008) Pronounced reduction of digit motor responses evoked from macaque ventral premotor cortex after reversible inactivation of the primary motor cortex hand area. J. Neurosci. 28, 5772-5783.