John Stein is a Professor of Neuroscience at Oxford University Medical School. He first studied medicine at Oxford and St Thomas's Hospital, London. Now his research focuses on the guidance of eye and limb movements by the brain’s visual magnocellular system in animals, patients with movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease and dyslexics. He doesn’t cook fish; his brother, celebrity fish chef Rick Stein, doesn’t do neuroscience!
Key words Movement disorders, Parkinson’s, Deep brain stimulation, visual dyslexia, magnocellular, reading.
Curriculum Vitae
1954–9 Winchester College, University Scholarship
1959-62 New College, Oxford U, Physiology BA, 1st class
1962 New College, Oxford U, MSc: Neural control of respiration.
1963-5 St Thomas’ Hospital, London, U. Scholarship, BM, BCh
1966 Member, Royal College of Physicians (London)
1970- Fellow & Tutor in Medicine, Magdalen College, Oxford
1980- Member, British Neurological Association
1990- Fellow, Royal College of Physicians, London (FRCP)
2001- Guarantor of ‘Brain’, Journal of Neurology
Research Interests
Neural Control of movement studied in monkeys, neurological patients and dyslexic children. Deep brain stimulation for treatment of movement disorders and pain. Visual magnocellular deficit in dyslexia
Principal Funding Sources
MRC, Wellcome Trust, Dyslexia Research Trust
Selected recent Publications
Stein JF, Talcott JB & Walsh V (2000) Controversy about the visual magnocellular deficit in developmental dyslexics. Trends in Cognitive Science 6, 209-11.
Stein J. The magnocellular theory of developmental dyslexia. Dyslexia. 2001; 7: 12-36.
Fisher SE, Stein JF and Monaco AP et al (2002) Independent genome-wide scans identify a chromosome 18 quantitative-trait locus influencing developmental dyslexia. Nature Genetics 30, 86-91
D Nandi, X Liu, TZ Aziz, JF Stein (2002) Brain stem motor loops in the control of movement. Movement Disorders 17, Suppl 3:S22-7. 22-7.
Stein J. Visual motion sensitivity and reading. Neuropsychologia 2003; 41: 1785-1793. Stein JF. Why did language develop? Int.J.Pediatr.Otorhinolaryngol. 2003; 67, 131-135.
Stein JF (2004) Dyslexia Genetics p 76-90 in ‘Dyslexia in Context, ed Reid G & Fawcett A. Whurr, London.
Green, A. L., S. Wang, et al. (2006). "Stimulating the human midbrain to reveal the link between pain and blood pressure." Pain 124(3): 349-59.
Jenkinson, N., Stein JF et al. (2006). "Pedunculopontine nucleus electric stimulation alleviates akinesia independently of dopaminergic mechanisms." Neuroreport 17: 639-41.
Stein J & Stoodley C. (2006) Neuroscience – an Introduction. Wiley, Chichester.
Cyhlarova, E., Stein JF, et al. (2007). "Membrane fatty acids, reading and spelling in dyslexic and non-dyslexic adults." Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 17(2): 116-21.