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University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Paul R Manger

Ass.Prof Paul Manger


ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR: PRE-CLINICAL MEDICINE

PhD (University of Queensland, Australia)


Email : paul.manger@wits.ac.za

Research Interests

Evolution of the vertebrate brain

Responsibilities:

    Teaching:
        Comparative vertebrate neuroanatomy
        Human neuroanatomy
        School Postgraduate Co-ordinator

    Administrative/Committee Membership:
        Postgraduate committee (Chair)
        Plagiarism committee
        Faculty Research Committee

Publications

    Manger P, Pettigrew J. Electroreception and the feeding behaviour of the Platypus. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B 347: 359-381 (1995)

    Manger P, Pettigrew J. Ultrastructure, number, distribution and innervation of electroreceptors and mechanoreceptors in the bill skin of the platypus. Brain, Behav Evol 48: 27-54 (1996) (cover article)

    Manger P, Woods T, Muñoz A, Jones E. Physiology and anatomy of the hand/face border in cortical area 3b of the macaque monkey. J Neurosci 17: 6338-6351 (1997)

    Lyamin O, Manger P, Mukhametov L, Siegel J, Shpak O. Rest and activity states in a grey whale. J. Sleep Res. 9: 261-267 (2000)

    Manger P, Slutsky D, Molnar Z. Visual subdivisions of the telencephalon of the iguana, Iguana iguana. J. Comp. Neurol. 453:226-248 (2002).

    Manger P, Masiello I, Innocenti G. Areal organization of the posterior parietal cortex of the ferret. Cerebral Cortex 12: 1280-1297 (2002).

    Manger P, Fahringer H, Pettigrew J, Siegel J. Distribution and morphology of cholinergic neurons in the brain of the monotremes as revealed by ChAT immunohistochemistry. Brain, Behav. Evol. 60: 275-297 (2002)

    Manger P, Fuxe K, Ridgway S, Siegel J. The distribution and morphological characteristics of catecholamine cells in the diencephalon and midbrain of the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). Brain Behav Evol. 64: 42-60 (2004)

    Manger P. Establishing order at the systems level in mammalian brain evolution. Brain Res Bull. 66: 282-289 (2005)

    Manger P. Evolution of the modern human brain: P.V. Tobias’s Hominization,Ockham’s Razor and Asimov’s Elephant. In: Voyages in Science: Essays by South African Anatomists in Honour of Phillip V. Tobias’s 80th Birthday, eds. G. Strkalj, N. Pather, B. Kramer, Content Solutions, Pretoria. pp: 51-84 (2005)

    Manger P. An examination of cetacean brain structure with a novel hypothesis correlating thermogenesis to the evolution of a big brain. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc. 81: 293-338 (2006)