Colleges
Websites
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Chair
The Dyslexia Research Trust - Charity supporting dyslexia research
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Consultant
Study of deep brain stimulation for movement disorders and pain
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Consultant
The Dyslexia Research Trust - Charity supporting dyslexia treatment and research
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Dyslexia Research Trust
Charity devoted to treatment and research into reading difficulties.
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Inst for Food, Brain and Behaviour
Charity devoted to research and Policy on connection between nutrition and brain function
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Oxford Centre for Functional Neurosurgery
Oxford centre for research and treatment by deep brain stimulation
John Stein
MA MSc BM BCh FRCP FMedSci
Emeritus Professor of Physiology
- Trustee & Chair of Science Advisory Council, Inst. for Food, Brain & Behaviour
- Trustee & Chair, Dyslexia Research Trust
- Scientific Adviser, British Dyslexia Association
- President, Oxfordshire Dyslexia Association
- Scientific Advisor, Pedunculopontine Nucleus Stimulation Standards Working Party
After preclinical studies at New College, I trained as a clinical neurologist at St Thomas’s Hospital, London, Leicester and Oxford. I was appointed Fellow and Tutor in Medicine at Magdalen College in 1970. Now Emeritus, I still teach neuroscience a bit, and I lecture frequently to Schools and Societies on why neuroscience is so interesting.
My research focuses on how vision controls movement in animals, patients with movement disorders, dyslexic children and antisocial offenders. I collaborate with neurosurgeon, Prof Tipu Aziz, on deep brain stimulation for movement disorders and pain, with Dr Sue Fowler on visual dyslexia, and with the Institute of Food, Brain & Behaviour on the influence of nutrition on behaviour. These studies have led to novel approaches to treatment, such as deep brain stimulation of the pedunculopontine nucleus for Parkinsonian freezing and falling, blue and yellow filters for visual dyslexia and omega 3 fatty acid supplements for antisocial behaviour.
Key publications
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Yellow filters can improve magnocellular function: motion sensitivity, convergence, accommodation, and reading.
Journal article
Ray NJ. et al, (2005), Ann N Y Acad Sci, 1039, 283 - 293
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The magnocellular theory of developmental dyslexia.
Journal article
Stein J., (2001), Dyslexia, 7, 12 - 36
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Akinesia, motor oscillations and the pedunculopontine nucleus in rats and men.
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Stein JF., (2009), Exp Neurol, 215, 1 - 4
Recent publications
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Theories about Developmental Dyslexia.
Journal article
Stein J., (2023), Brain Sci, 13
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Language and reading impairments are associated with increased prevalence of non-right-handedness.
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Abbondanza F. et al, (2023), Child Dev, 94, 970 - 984
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Hypothesis-driven genome-wide association studies provide novel insights into genetics of reading disabilities.
Journal article
Price KM. et al, (2022), Transl Psychiatry, 12
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Genome-wide analyses of individual differences in quantitatively assessed reading- and language-related skills in up to 34,000 people.
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Eising E. et al, (2022), Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 119
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Enhanced reading abilities is modulated by faster visual spatial attention.
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Ebrahimi L. et al, (2022), Ann Dyslexia, 72, 125 - 146