Top Researchers
Top Researchers in Neuroscience at Newcastle University for 2025
Newcastle University’s 2025 neuroscience output spans a wide set of questions, from brain rhythms and memory to Parkinson’s disease, autism, epilepsy, and neural engineering. Based on a sample of 312 works published between January 1 and December 31, this snapshot highlights the themes and researchers shaping the institution’s activity in the field.
Below, you’ll find a curated view of the scholars whose recent work reflects the strongest patterns across the year, along with the subfields that appeared most often across the sampled research.
Featured Researchers
John‐Paul Taylor
John‐Paul Taylor’s recent work at Newcastle University connects psychiatry, cognitive neuroscience, and neurology through studies of alpha rhythms, Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers, and visual cortical activity in Charles Bonnet syndrome.
Activity this year: 17 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
Tiago F. Outeiro
Tiago F. Outeiro is focused on neurology, physiology, and cellular and molecular neuroscience, with recent publications on blood–brain barrier integrity in Alzheimer’s disease and circadian dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease.
Activity this year: 12 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- The role of insulin resistance and APOE genotype on blood–brain barrier integrity in Alzheimer's disease (Feb 2025)
- Circadian clock dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease: mechanisms, consequences, and therapeutic strategy (Jul 2025)
- Neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s disease: are we looking at the right spot? (Aug 2025)
Nicola Pavese
Nicola Pavese’s recent publications center on neurology and molecular neuroscience, especially atypical parkinsonian syndromes, multiple system atrophy, and dopamine-related gait phenomena.
Activity this year: 9 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Cognitive and neuropsychiatric profiles distinguish atypical parkinsonian syndromes (Apr 2025)
- Locus coeruleus neuromelanin, cognitive dysfunction, and brain metabolism in multiple system atrophy (Feb 2025)
- Cholinergic patterns correlate with dopamine medication ON freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease (Jun 2025)
Peter N. Taylor
Peter N. Taylor is working across cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, and imaging, with recent studies on normative brain modelling and morphological change in temporal lobe epilepsy.
Activity this year: 11 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Brain morphology normative modelling platform for abnormality and centile estimation: Brain MoNoCle (Jan 2025)
- Changes in Gray Matter Morphology and White Matter Microstructure Across the Adult Lifespan in People With Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (Aug 2025)
- Combined impact of gray and superficial white matter abnormalities: Implications for epilepsy surgery (Jun 2025)
Timothy D. Griffiths
Timothy D. Griffiths’ current work brings together cognitive neuroscience, experimental psychology, and sensory systems to examine speech-in-noise perception and auditory entrainment.
Activity this year: 8 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Auditory-cognitive contributions to speech-in-noise perception determined with structural equation modelling of a large sample (Oct 2025)
- Predicting speech-in-noise ability with static and dynamic auditory figure-ground analysis using structural equation modelling (Mar 2025)
- Neural entrainment to pitch changes of auditory targets in noise (May 2025)
Yujiang Wang
Yujiang Wang’s recent research combines cognitive neuroscience and imaging with work on brain morphology, white matter abnormalities, and lifespan variation in cortical structure.
Activity this year: 8 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Brain morphology normative modelling platform for abnormality and centile estimation: Brain MoNoCle (Jan 2025)
- Combined impact of gray and superficial white matter abnormalities: Implications for epilepsy surgery (Jun 2025)
- Multiscale cortical morphometry reveals pronounced regional and scale-dependent variations across the lifespan (Jun 2025)
Jacqui Rodgers
Jacqui Rodgers is focusing on cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, and psychiatry and mental health through studies of autism, anxiety, repetitive behaviours, and support interventions for families.
Activity this year: 7 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Bridging the gap: unveiling key links between autism and anxiety symptoms in autistic children and youth using a network analysis in pooled data from four countries (Sep 2025)
- Understanding Repetitive Behaviours: A clinical and cost-effectiveness, multi-site randomised controlled trial of a group for parents and carers of young autistic children (Jun 2025)
- Health economic evaluation of Autism Adapted Safety Plans: findings on feasibility of tools from a pilot randomised controlled trial (Mar 2025)
Stuart N. Baker
Stuart N. Baker’s work bridges biomedical engineering and neuroscience, including peripheral neural interfaces, automated identification of neural activity, and motor pathway responses in trained adults.
Activity this year: 8 indexed journal articles.
Top publications:
- Peripheral neural interfaces for reading high-frequency brain signals (Jun 2025)
- NeuroNella: Automatic identification of neural activity from multielectrode arrays with blind source separation (Mar 2025)
- Reticulospinal and corticospinal responses in long-term strength-trained and untrained adults (Jun 2025)
What Newcastle University's Neuroscience Community Is Working On
The most common subfields in this Newcastle University neuroscience sample were cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, neurology, and cellular and molecular neuroscience, showing a community that is actively linking brain function with clinical questions. Much of the year’s activity sits at the intersection of cognition, neuropsychiatric symptoms, and disease mechanisms, while physiology and imaging add support for studies of brain structure, circuits, and biomarkers. The result is a research profile that moves between experimental, clinical, and computational approaches to understand how neurological and psychiatric conditions emerge and how they may be measured more precisely.- Cognitive Neuroscience - seen across 6 of the featured researchers
- Psychiatry and Mental health - seen across 4 of the featured researchers
- Neurology - seen across 3 of the featured researchers
- Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience - seen across 3 of the featured researchers
- Physiology - seen across 2 of the featured researchers
Taken together, these projects show Newcastle University neuroscience engaging with both fundamental mechanisms and applied questions in diagnosis, modelling, and care. If you’re exploring publication trends, researcher profiles, or preparing your own manuscript workflow, Resub can help streamline the citation and submission steps along the way.