Rate My Professor Louise Parr-Brownlie

Parr-Brownlie has served in key leadership capacities, including as Director Māori for the Ageing Well National Science Challenge, a member of the Māori Advisory Board for Brain Research New Zealand – Roro Rangahau Aotearoa, and Secretary of the International Basal Ganglia Society Council. She has been Deputy Head of the Department of Anatomy and delivered invited talks at eminent venues like the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Janelia) and Gordon Research Conferences in the United States. Her teaching portfolio encompasses ANAT335 Neurobiology, NEUR452 Neurodegenerative Disorders, and musculoskeletal courses such as HUBS191, ANAT241, and ELM2. Prominent publications include "Towards the implementation of Indigenous data governance in neurogenomics research" (Edwards et al., Nature Neuroscience, 2025), "Sexual dimorphism in levodopa-induced dyskinesia following Parkinson's disease: Uncharted territory" (Bentall & Parr-Brownlie, European Journal of Neuroscience, 2025), "A novel rat model for inflammatory gut–brain interactions in Parkinson's disease" (Kendall et al., European Journal of Neuroscience, 2025), and the highly influential "Motor thalamus integration of cortical, cerebellar and basal ganglia signals in the rat" (Bosch-Bouju et al., Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 2013). In 2025, she was honored with the Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) for services to neuroscience.