Visual Processing Disorders Clinical Advisory Group – Clinical Meeting

Guest speakers:

Professor John Stein

Emeritus Professor of Physiology; Emeritus Fellow of Magdalen College

Professor Stein’s research focuses on how vision controls movement in animals, patients with movement disorders, dyslexic children and antisocial offenders. He collaborates with neurosurgeon Professor 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.

Dr Alex Richardson DPhil  (Oxon),  PGCE,  FRSA,

Founder  Director  of  FAB   Research, Research  Associate,  Dept  of   Physiology,  Anatomy  and  Genetics,  University  of  Oxford

Her primary research interests include:

• The role of nutrition in brain development and function, and its implications for behaviour, learning and mood.
• The biology of individual differences in personality, perception and cognition, particularly in relation to developmental and psychiatric disorders.