Professor Richard Apps

Research summary

The overall aim of my research is to understand the contributions the mammalian cerebellum makes to the control of voluntary limb movements.

The cerebellum is the largest motor structure within the brain and to succeed in this aim would substantially increase knowledge of the way in which movements are controlled, as well as shed light on the functional organization of a major neural structure and the pathways linking it to other parts of the nervous system.

In particular, the climbing fibre pathways connecting the inferior olive (a brainstem nucleus) to the cerebellum play a vital but enigmatic role in the ...

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Selected publications

• Leith, JL, Koutsikou, S, Lumb, BM & Apps, R, 2010, ‘Spinal processing of noxious and innocuous cold information: differential modulation by the periaqueductal gray: differential modulation by the periaqueductal gray’. Journal of Neuroscience, vol 30., pp. 4933 - 4942
• Watson, T, Jones, M & Apps, R, 2009, ‘Electrophysiological mapping of novel prefrontal-cerebellar pathways’. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, vol 3., pp. 18 - 29

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Recent publications

• Bareš, M, Apps, R, Avanzino, L, Breska, A, D'Angelo, E, Filip, P, Gerwig, M, Ivry, RB, Lawrenson, CL, Louis, ED, Lusk, NA, Manto, M, Meck, WH, Mitoma, H & Petter, EA, 2019, ‘Consensus paper: Decoding the Contributions of the Cerebellum as a Time Machine. From Neurons to Clinical Applications’. Cerebellum, vol 18., pp. 266-286
• Ashida, R, Cerminara, NL, Edwards, RJ, Apps, R & Brooks, JCW, 2019, ‘Sensorimotor, language and working memory representation within the human cerebellum’. Human Brain Mapping.

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