Director
Principal Investigator
E-mail: james.rowe[at]mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Frontotemporal Dementia and related disorders
Department of Clinical Neurosciences
University of Cambridge
Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site
Robinson Way, Cambridge Biomedical Campus
Cambridge CB2 0SZ
Websites:
- http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?jamesrowe
- http://www.brc.cam.ac.uk/principal-investigators/james-rowe/
- https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/james.rowe/
- http://www.cam-can.com
- http://genfi.org.uk/
- https://cambridgebrc.nihr.ac.uk/research/dementia-neurodegenerative-disorders/
- http://www.neurology.cam.ac.uk/neurology-unit-research-groups/syren/nimrod-2/
- http://www.cimbi.dk
- https://twitter.com/CambridgeFTD
Biography:
My first class training in Medical Sciences and Experimental Psychology (1st class hons.) began at Downing College at the University of Cambridge (1988-1991), followed by studies at Magdalen College at the University of Oxford (1991-1994) and continued through my PhD at the Functional Imaging Laboratory of the Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology (1998-2001), supervised by Richard Frackowiak, Professor of Cognitive Neurology in London, and Richard E. Passingham, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in Oxford.
My PhD focused on the neural mechanisms of response selection and attention to action, in health and Parkinson’s disease. For this I acquired an in-depth knowledge of cognitive neurosciences and human neuroimaging techniques, including positron emission tomography, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).
After completing my PhD I undertook full time clinical specialist training in neurology, for four years. During my clinical training I continued research, including UK and international collaborations with an emphasis on the analysis of interactions within cortical and subcortical neural networks. My Wellcome Trust Intermediate Research Fellowship (2005-2009) enabled me to develop further research methodologies (including magnetoencephalography), clinical experience with Pick’s Disease Complex (PDC), and the theoretical frameworks of my research programmes.
Since 2009, I am a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Clinical Science and since 2015, I am Professor of Cognitive Neurology at the Cambridge University and an affiliated Professor of Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Copenhagen.
My scientific work has been published in >160 high-ranking peer-reviewed articles including Science, Brain, Nature Communications, and Neurology.
I am an active consultant neurologist, leading regional specialist clinics for patients with early dementia, frontotemporal dementia, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, and other ‘tauopathies’, and I am a member of the Cambridge Memory Clinic.
Departments and Institutes
- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (CBSU), University of Cambridge:
- Programme Leader
- Centre for Integrated Molecular Brain Imaging (CIMBI), University of Copenhagen, Denmark:
- Affilated Professor of Clinical Neuroscience
- Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals:
- Honorary Consultant Neurologist
- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Cambridge:
- Professor of Cognitive Neurology
- Behavioral and Clinical Neuroscience Institute (BCNI), Cambridge:
- Associate
Research Interests
- Dementia
- Frontotemporal dementia
- Action control and decision making
- Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP)
- Corticobasal degeneration (CBD)
- Successful cognitive ageing
- Parkinson's disease (PD)
- Alzheimer's disease (AD)
- Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA)
KeywordsProgressive Supranuclear Palsy ; Frontotemporal dementia ; Coritcobasal degeneration ; Dementia ; Parkinson's disease ; Alzheimer's disease |
Key Publications
For publications please check here or visit my Google Scholar profile page.