Dr Stella Koutsikou

Dr Stella Koutsikou
B.Sc.(Essex), M.Sc.(Edin.), Ph.D.(Bristol)

Senior Research Fellow

General principles of the CNS in translating biologically relevant stimuli into natural survival behaviour.

Office Life Sciences: 109
Life Sciences Building,
24 Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TQ
(See a map)

Tel. +44 (0) 117 39 41329
Tel. +44 (0) 117 39 41344
stella.koutsikou@
bristol.ac.uk

Research groups

Labs

Koutsikou, S, Apps, R & Lumb, BM, 2017, ‘Top down control of spinal sensorimotor circuits essential for survival’. Journal of Physiology, vol 595., pp. 4151-4158
Koutsikou, S, Watson, TC, Crook, JJ, Leith, JL, Lawrenson, CL, Apps, R & Lumb, BM, 2015, ‘The periaqueductal gray orchestrates sensory and motor circuits at multiple levels of the neuraxis’. Journal of Neuroscience, vol 35., pp. 14132-14147

Roberts, A, Borisyuk, R, Buhl, E, Ferrario, A, Koutsikou, S, Li, WC & Soffe, SR, 2019, ‘The decision to move: response times, neuronal circuits and sensory memory in a simple vertebrate’. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol 286., pp. 20190297
Koutsikou, S, Merrison-Hort, R, Buhl, E, Ferrario, A, Li, W-C, Borisyuk, R, Soffe, SR & Roberts, A, 2018, ‘A simple decision to move in response to touch reveals basic sensory memory and mechanisms for variable response times: Decision to swim’. Journal of Physiology.