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2026

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Neuroscience

D-Index
114
Citations
51327
World Ranking
467
National Ranking
12

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2010 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2008 - Kavli Prize, The Kavli Foundation for discoveries on the developmental and functional logic of neuronal circuits
  • 2006 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 2005 - Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience
  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1990 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Sten Grillner is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and has made contributions primarily in the field of Neuroscience, with a focus on topics including neural dynamics and brain function, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, and neurological disorders and treatments.

Their recent scholarly output includes several papers published between 2020 and 2021 in reputable journals: The CPGs for Limbed Locomotion-Facts and Fiction (2021, International Journal of Molecular Sciences), Evolution of the vertebrate motor system - from forebrain to spinal cord (2021, Current Opinion in Neurobiology), The tectum/superior colliculus as the vertebrate solution for spatial sensory integration and action (2021, Current Biology), The microcircuits of striatum in silico (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), and The evolutionary origin of visual and somatosensory representation in the vertebrate pallium (2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution).

The scientist frequently collaborates with the following co-authors:

  • Jeanette Hellgren Kotaleski
  • Brita Robertson
  • Alexander Kozlov
  • Johanna Nylén
  • Juan Pérez-Fernández

Sten Grillner's work has been published repeatedly in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature Communications
  • Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Their research spans several subfields including cellular and molecular neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, neurology, cell biology, and molecular biology. Main topics covered in their research are:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research

Sten Grillner has authored the book The Brain in Motion, published by The MIT Press in 2023.

Recognition of their scientific contributions includes multiple awards and memberships:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2010)
  • Kavli Prize from The Kavli Foundation (2008), for discoveries on the developmental and functional logic of neuronal circuits
  • Member of the National Academy of Medicine (2006)
  • Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience from the Society for Neuroscience (2005)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2004)
  • Member of Academia Europaea (1990)

Best Publications

  • Control of Locomotion in Bipeds, Tetrapods, and Fish

    Sten Grillner

  • Locomotion in vertebrates: central mechanisms and reflex interaction

    S. Grillner

  • Neurobiological Bases of Rhythmic Motor Acts in Vertebrates

    Sten Grillner

  • On the central generation of locomotion in the low spinal cat.

    S. Grillner;P. Zangger

  • Biological Pattern Generation: The Cellular and Computational Logic of Networks in Motion

    Sten Grillner

  • CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATORS FOR LOCOMOTION, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO VERTEBRATES

    Sten Grillner;Peter Wallén

  • The motor infrastructure: from ion channels to neuronal networks

    Sten Grillner

  • Neuronal Control of Locomotion 'From Mollusc to Man '

    G. N. Orlovskiĭ;T. G. Deliagina;Sten Grillner

  • Mechanisms for selection of basic motor programs – roles for the striatum and pallidum

    Sten Grillner;Jeanette Hellgren;Ariane Ménard;Kazuya Saitoh

  • On the initiation of the swing phase of locomotion in chronic spinal cats.

    S. Grillner;S. Rossignol

  • Phase dependent reflex reversal during walking in chronic spinal cats

    H. Forssberg;S. Grillner;S. Rossignol

  • Neural networks that co-ordinate locomotion and body orientation in lamprey

    S. Grillner;T. Deliagina;A. El Manira;R.H. Hill

  • Neuronal Control of LocomotionFrom Mollusc to Man

    Grigori Orlovsky;T. G. Deliagina;Sten Grillner

  • Current Principles of Motor Control, with Special Reference to Vertebrate Locomotion

    Sten Grillner;Abdeljabbar El Manira

  • Neuronal network generating locomotor behavior in lamprey: circuitry, transmitters, membrane properties, and simulation.

    Sten Grillner;Peter Wallen;Lennart Brodin;Anders Lansner

  • Neural Control of Rhythmic Movements in Vertebrates

    Avis H. Cohen;Serge Rossignol;Sten Grillner

  • Measured motion: searching for simplicity in spinal locomotor networks.

    Sten Grillner;Thomas M Jessell

  • Excitatory amino acids and synaptic transmission: the evidence for a physiological function

    P.Max Headley;Sten Grillner

  • Neural bases of goal-directed locomotion in vertebrates--an overview.

    Sten Grillner;Peter Wallén;Kazuya Saitoh;Alexander Kozlov

  • The locomotion of the acute spinal cat injected with clonidine i.v.

    H. Forssberg;S. Grillner

  • The Role of Muscle Stiffness in Meeting the Changing Postural and Locomotor Requirements for Force Development by the Ankle Extensors

    S. Grillner

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Wallén
Peter Wallén Karolinska Institute
Tatiana G. Deliagina
Tatiana G. Deliagina Karolinska Institute
Grigori N. Orlovsky
Grigori N. Orlovsky Karolinska Institute
Brita Robertson
Brita Robertson Karolinska Institute
Anders Lansner
Anders Lansner Royal Institute of Technology
Lennart Brodin
Lennart Brodin Karolinska Institute
Tomas Hökfelt
Tomas Hökfelt Karolinska Institute
Abdeljabbar El Manira
Abdeljabbar El Manira Karolinska Institute
Gilad Silberberg
Gilad Silberberg Karolinska Institute
Fredrik Ullén
Fredrik Ullén Karolinska Institute

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