Born	16 December 1934 (age 84) Bogotá, Colombia
Residence	New York City, New York, United States
Alma mater	Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and Australian National University
Known for	Physiology of the cerebellum, the thalamus, Thalamocortical dysrhythmia as well as for his pioneering work on the inferior olive, on the squid giant synapse and on human magnetoencephalography (MEG)
Awards	Ralph W. Gerard Prize(2018)
Scientific career
Fields	Neuroscience
Institutions	NYU School of Medicine
Doctoral advisor	Sir John Eccles

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Rodolfo Llinás Riascos (Bogotá, Colombia 16 December 1934) is a Colombian-Americanneuroscientist. He is currently the Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor of Neuroscience and Chairman Emeritus of the department of Physiology & Neuroscience at the NYU School of Medicine. Llinás has published over 800 scientific articles.[1]

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Early life[edit]

Llinás was born in Bogotá, Colombia. He is the son of Jorge Enrique Llinas (a surgeon) and Bertha Riascos. He was motivated to study the brain by watching his grandfather Pablo Llinás Olarte working as a neuropsychiatrist. Llinás is an atheist^{[citation needed]} and describes himself as a logical positivist.^[1]

Education and early research[edit]

Llinás went to the Gimnasio Moderno school in Bogotá and graduated as a medical doctor from the Pontifical Xavierian University in 1959.^[2] During his medical studies he had the opportunity to travel to Europe and there he met several researchers in Spain, France and finally Switzerland, where he participated in neurophysiology experiments with Dr. Walter Rudolf Hess, Nobel Prize in Physiology, Medicine, professor and director of the Department of the Institute of Physiology of the University of Zurich. Additionally, while studying medicine he made a theoretical thesis on the visual system under the tuition of neurosurgeon and neurophysiologist Fernando Rosas and the mathematician Carlo Federici at the National University of Colombia.^[3] He received his PhD in 1965 from the Australian National University working under Sir John Eccles.^[2]

Personal life[edit]

By graduation in Australia he was very interested in the biological basis of the mind. During this time he met his future wife who was studying philosophy. His two sons are also physicians and his wife is an australian philosopher of mind.^[3]Llinás was a scientific advisor during the establishment of an interactive science museum located in Bogotá, Colombia called Maloka Museum. Recently, Llinás has donated a T-Rex skeleton to the museum and helped to design a model of the nervous system for the dinosaur fossils.^[4]^[5]

Work[edit]

He has studied the electrophysiology of single neurons in the cerebellum, the thalamus, the cerebral cortex, the entorhinal cortex, the hippocampus, the vestibular system, the inferior olive and the spinal cord. He has studied synaptic transmitter release in the squid giant synapse. He has studied human brain function using magnetoencephalography (MEG) on the basis of which he introduced the concept of Thalamocortical dysrhythmia.^[6]

Career[edit]

Llinás has occupied a number of positions.^[7]

Research fellow, Massachusetts General Hosp.-Harvard University, 1960–61
National Institutes of Health research fellow in physiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1961–63
Associate professor, University Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1965–66
Associate member, American Medical Association Institute Biomed. Research, Chicago, 1966–68
Member, American Medical Association Institute Biomed. Research, Chicago, 1970
Head neurobiology unit, American Medical Association Institute Biomed. Research, Chicago, 1967–70
Associate professor neurology and psychiatry, Northwestern University, 1967–71
Guest professor physiology, Wayne State University, 1967–74
Professorial lecturer pharmacology, University Ill.-Chgo., 1967–68
Clinical professor, University Ill.-Chgo., 1968–72
Professor physiology, head neurobiology div., University of Iowa, 1970–76
Prof., chairman physiology and biophysics, New York University, New York City, 1976—2011
Thomas and Suzanne Murphy professor neuroscience., New York University, 1985—
University Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology., New York University, 2011—

Contributions[edit]

Discovery of dendritic inhibition in central neurons (at the mammalian motoneuron).^[8]^[9]
The functional organization of the cerebellar cortex neuronal circuits.^[10]
Defining cerebellar function from an evolutionary perspective.^[11]
First description of electrical coupling in the mammalian CNS (mesencephalic trigeminal nucleus).^[12]
First determination of presynaptic calcium current, under voltage clamp, at the squid giant synapse.^[13]^[14]
Discovery that vertebrate neurons (cerebellar Purkinje cell) can generate calcium-dependent spikes.^[15]^[16]
Proposal and Organization of NASA Neurolab Project that flew on April 17, 1998, Space Shuttle Columbia.^[17]
Discovery of the P-type calcium channel in the Purkinje cells.^[15]
Discovery of low threshold spikes generated by low voltage activated calcium conductaces (presently known as due to T-type calcium channel) in inferior olive and thalamus neurons.^[18]^[19]
A tensor network model of the transformation of sensory space-time coordinates into motor coordinates by the cerebellum.^[20]
Asserting the law of no interchangeability of neurons, which it is known as Llinás' law.^[21]
Direct demonstration of calcium concentration microdomains at the presynaptic active zone.^[22]
Utilization of magnetoencephalography in clinical research.^[23]
Discovery of subthreshold membrane potential oscillations in the inferior olive, thalamus and entorhinal cortex.^[24]^[25]
The discovery of Thalamocortical dysrhythmia.^[6]
Artificial olivo-cerebellar motor control system as part of the project BAUV (Undersea Vehicle) of the US Navy developed by P. Bandyopadhyay.^[26]^[27]

Memberships and Honors[edit]

Llinás is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences (1986), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1996), American Philosophical Society (1996), the Real Academia Nacional de Medicina (Spain) (1996) and the French Academy of Science (2002). Dr. Llinás has received honorary degrees from the following universities:

Universidad de Salamanca (Spain) (1985)
Universitat Aut

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