Peter Brown

Professor of Experimental Neurology and Director of the Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit at the University of Oxford.

Professor Peter Brown obtained his medical degree from Cambridge University and thereafter joined the Medical Research Council Human Movement and Balance Unit before moving to the Institute of Neurology, London, where he also worked as a neurologist at the affiliated National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London. He moved to the University of Oxford as Professor of Experimental Neurology in 2010, and in 2015 became Director of the Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit at the University of Oxford. His research group's goal is to define how activity in large populations of neurons is coordinated in healthy movement and how such coordination may go awry in diseases like Parkinsons. The group takes a multidisciplinary approach combining experimental approaches with sophisticated signals analysis and modelling, and takes particular care to apply their discoveries to improve deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's Disease.