John-Paul Taylor
Professor John-Paul Taylor is an academic old age psychiatrist and Honorary Consultant at Newcastle University and Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust.
Dr Taylor’s research focuses the application of neuroimaging and neurophysiological approaches in understanding symptom aetiology in dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson’s disease dementia as well as developing better management approaches for people with Lewy body disease.
Currently, Professor Taylor is the NIHR Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre lead for dementia and he is the Chief Investigator for the NIHR HTA COBALT trial which is investigating the benefits of memantine as an add-on therapy to cholinesterase inhibitors in dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson’s disease dementia. More recently, he has been appointed as one of the deputy Chairs for the national Dementia Translational Research Collaboration which has the ambition to expand the UK’s capacity to deliver high quality early phase clinical trials in dementia and neurodegeneration.
Clinically he leads a specialist Lewy body dementia clinic in Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust.