Professor James B. Rowe Professor James B. Rowe (Cambridge) presents his work as an active consultant neurologist, leading regional specialist clinics for patients with neurodegenerative diseases. Hosted by Prof Beth Jefferies.

Professor James B. Rowe is both a neuroscientist and a cognitive neurologist. He is also Director of Cambridge Centre for Frontotemporal Dementia and Related Disorders

His early training in Medical Sciences and Experimental Psychology (1^st class hons.) began at Downing College at the University of Cambridge (1988-1991), followed by Magdalen College at the University of Oxford (1991-1994) and a PhD at the Functional Imaging Laboratory of the Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology (1998-2001), supervised by Professor Richard Frackowiak and Professor Dick Passingham. 

His PhD focused on the neural mechanisms of response selection and attention to action, in health and Parkinson’s disease, using human neuroimaging techniques, such as positron emission tomography, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).

After completing his PhD he undertook full time clinical specialist training in neurology, for four years. During his clinical training he continued research, including UK and international collaborations on the interactions within cortical and subcortical neural networks. His Wellcome Trust Intermediate Research Fellowship (2005-2009) enabled him to develop further research methodologies (including magnetoencephalography), clinical experience with Frontotemporal dementia, and the theoretical foundations of his later research program. In 2009, he became a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Clinical Science.

In 2015, he was appointed as the Professor of Cognitive Neurology at the University of Cambridge and an affiliated Professor of Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. 

His scientific work has been published in more than 200 high-ranking peer-reviewed articles including Science, Brain, Nature Communications, and Neurology.

He is an active consultant neurologist, leading regional specialist clinics for patients with early dementia, frontotemporal dementia, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, and other ‘tauopathies’, and he is a consultant in the Cambridge Memory Clinic.