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  1. An early midbrain sensorimotor pathway is involved in the timely initiation and direction of swimming in the hatchling Xenopus laevis tadpole

    Article • Frontiers in Neural Circuits, December 2022, Frontiers

    Dr Stella Koutsikou

  2. Early midbrain sensorimotor pathway is involved in the timely initiation and direction of swimming in the hatchling Xenopus laevis tadpole

    Article • August 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Stella Koutsikou

  3. From decision to action: Detailed modelling of frog tadpoles reveals neuronal mechanisms of decision-making and reproduces unpredictable swimming movements in response to sensory signals

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, December 2021, PLOS

    Dr Stella Koutsikou

  4. Whole animal modelling reveals neuronal mechanisms of decision-making and reproduces unpredictable swimming in frog tadpoles

    Article • July 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Stella Koutsikou

  5. Novel and highly distributed classes of hindbrain neuronal activity contribute to sensory processing and motor control in the Xenopus laevis tadpole

    Article • June 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Stella Koutsikou

  6. All-fibre supercontinuum laser for in vivo multispectral photoacoustic microscopy of lipids in the extended near-infrared region

    Article • Photoacoustics, June 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Stella Koutsikou

  7. The decision to move: response times, neuronal circuits and sensory memory in a simple vertebrate

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, March 2019, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Stella Koutsikou

  8. Real-time multimodal high resolution biomedical imaging instrument using supercontinuum optical sources

    Article • January 2019, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Stella Koutsikou

  9. A simple decision to move in response to touch reveals basic sensory memory and mechanisms for variable response times

    Article • The Journal of Physiology, September 2018, Wiley

    Dr Stella Koutsikou

  10. To swim or not to swim: A population-level model of Xenopus tadpole decision making and locomotor behaviour

    Article • Biosystems, November 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Stella Koutsikou

  11. S191 Cerebellar contributions to fear behaviour

    Article • Clinical Neurophysiology, September 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Stella Koutsikou

  12. Top down control of spinal sensorimotor circuits essential for survival

    Article • The Journal of Physiology, April 2017, Wiley

    Dr Stella Koutsikou

  13. Does inflammation induced by ultraviolet B and heat rekindling alter pain-related behaviour in rats?

    Article • Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia, September 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Stella Koutsikou

  14. The Periaqueductal Gray Orchestrates Sensory and Motor Circuits at Multiple Levels of the Neuraxis

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, October 2015, Society for Neuroscience

    Dr Stella Koutsikou

  15. Beyond Gene Inactivation: Evolution of Tools for Analysis of Serotonergic Circuitry

    Article • ACS Chemical Neuroscience, July 2015, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Stella Koutsikou

  16. Proceedings of the workshop on Cerebellum, Basal Ganglia and Cortical Connections Unmasked in Health and Disorder Held in Brno, Czech Republic, October 17th, 2013

    Article • The Cerebellum, September 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Stella Koutsikou

  17. Neural substrates underlying fear‐evoked freezing: the periaqueductal grey–cerebellar link

    Article • The Journal of Physiology, April 2014, Wiley

    Dr Stella Koutsikou

  18. Objective validation of central sensitization in the rat UVB and heat rekindling model

    Article • European Journal of Pain, March 2014, Wiley

    Dr Stella Koutsikou

  19. The olivo-cerebellar system and its relationship to survival circuits

    Article • Frontiers in Neural Circuits, January 2013, Frontiers

    Dr Stella Koutsikou

  20. Erratum to “Partial nerve injury induces electrophysiological changes in conducting (uninjured) nociceptive and non-nociceptive DRG neurons: Possible relationships to aspects of peripheral neuropathic pain and paresthesias” [Pain 153 (9) (2012) 1824–1836]

    Article • Pain, November 2012, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Stella Koutsikou

  21. Partial nerve injury induces electrophysiological changes in conducting (uninjured) nociceptive and nonnociceptive DRG neurons: Possible relationships to aspects of peripheral neuropathic pain and paresthesias

    Article • Pain, September 2012, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Stella Koutsikou

  22. Spinal Processing of Noxious and Innocuous Cold Information: Differential Modulation by the Periaqueductal Gray

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, April 2010, Society for Neuroscience

    Dr Stella Koutsikou

  23. The periaqueductal grey modulates sensory input to the cerebellum: a role in coping behaviour?

    Article • European Journal of Neuroscience, June 2009, Wiley

    Dr Stella Koutsikou

  24. Separation of A- versus C-nociceptive inputs into spinal–brainstem circuits

    Article • Neuroscience, April 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Stella Koutsikou

  25. Laminar organization of spinal dorsal horn neurones activated by C- vs. A-heat nociceptors and their descending control from the periaqueductal grey in the rat

    Article • European Journal of Neuroscience, August 2007, Wiley

    Dr Stella Koutsikou

  26. Spontaneous Pain, Both Neuropathic and Inflammatory, Is Related to Frequency of Spontaneous Firing in Intact C-Fiber Nociceptors

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, January 2006, Society for Neuroscience

    Dr Stella Koutsikou