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Richard Brown is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a particular focus on neurology. Their body of work spans multiple subfields, including neurology, epidemiology, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, psychiatry and mental health, and microbiology.

Brown's research covers a range of important topics such as Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, reproductive tract infections research, neurological disorders and treatments, preterm birth and chorioamnionitis, urinary tract infections management, transcranial magnetic stimulation studies, and prenatal screening and diagnostics.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Brown include:

  • Safety and efficacy of pioglitazone for the delay of cognitive impairment in people at risk of Alzheimer's disease (TOMMORROW): a prognostic biomarker study and a phase 3, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial (2021, The Lancet Neurology)
  • Microbial-driven preterm labour involves crosstalk between the innate and adaptive immune response (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Direct on-swab metabolic profiling of vaginal microbiome host interactions during pregnancy and preterm birth (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Non-motor predictors of 36-month quality of life after subthalamic stimulation in Parkinson disease (2021, npj Parkinson s Disease)
  • Cognitive Strategy Training in Childhood-Onset Movement Disorders: Replication Across Therapists (2021, Frontiers in Pediatrics)

Frequent co-authors working with Brown include Anette Schrag, Phillip R. Bennett, David A. MacIntyre, Denise Chan, and Yun Sok Lee. These collaborations have contributed to the depth and breadth of their research output.

Brown often publishes in key venues such as npj Parkinson's Disease, Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada, Nature Communications, The Lancet Neurology, and Frontiers in Pediatrics.

In addition to articles, Brown has a book publication titled Race and the Power of Sermons on American Politics, published by the University of Michigan Press in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Clinical diagnostic criteria for dementia associated with Parkinson's disease.

    Murat Emre;Dag Aarsland;Dag Aarsland;Richard Brown;David J. Burn

  • Self-initiated versus externally triggered movements. I. An investigation using measurement of regional cerebral blood flow with PET and movement-related potentials in normal and Parkinson's disease subjects

    Marjan Jahanshahi;I. H. Jenkins;R. G. Brown;C. D. Marsden

  • International multicenter pilot study of the first comprehensive self-completed nonmotor symptoms questionnaire for Parkinson's disease : The NMSQuest study

    Kallol Ray Chaudhuri;Pablo Martinez-Martin;Anthony H.V. Schapira;Fabrizio Stocchi

  • Diagnostic procedures for Parkinson's disease dementia: Recommendations from the movement disorder society task force

    Bruno Dubois;David Burn;Christopher Goetz;Dag Aarsland;Dag Aarsland

  • The metric properties of a novel non-motor symptoms scale for Parkinson's disease: Results from an international pilot study.

    Kallol Ray Chaudhuri;Pablo Martinez-Martin;Richard G. Brown;Kapil Sethi

  • ‘FRONTAL’ COGNITIVE FUNCTION IN PATIENTS WITH PARKINSON'S DISEASE ‘ON’AND ‘OFF’ LEVODOPA

    A M Gotham;Richard Brown;C D Marsden

  • The assessment of fatigue A practical guide for clinicians and researchers

    A.J Dittner;S.C Wessely;R.G Brown

  • Donepezil and memantine for moderate-to-severe Alzheimer's disease.

    Robert Howard;Rupert McShane;James Lindesay;Craig Ritchie

  • The anatomy of melancholia--focal abnormalities of cerebral blood flow in major depression.

    Christopher J. Bench;Karl J. Friston;Richard G. Brown;Lynette C. Scott

  • Depression Rating Scales in Parkinson’s Disease: Critique and Recommendations

    Anette Schrag;Paolo Barone;Richard G. Brown;Albert F.G. Leentjens

  • Regional cerebral blood flow in depression measured by positron emission tomography: the relationship with clinical dimensions.

    C J Bench;K J Friston;Richard Brown;R S J Frackowiak

  • INTERNAL VERSUS EXTERNAL CUES AND THE CONTROL OF ATTENTION IN PARKINSON'S DISEASE

    R.G. Brown;C.D. Marsden

  • Prevalence of nonmotor symptoms in Parkinson's disease in an international setting; Study using nonmotor symptoms questionnaire in 545 patients

    Pablo Martinez-Martin;Anthony H.V. Schapira;Fabrizio Stocchi;Kapil Sethi

  • Cognitive function in Parkinson's disease: from description to theory.

    Richard Brown;C D Marsden

  • Apathy in Parkinson’s disease

    G C Pluck;R G Brown

  • Proteome-based plasma biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease

    A Hye;Steven Lynham;Madhav Thambisetty;M Causevic

  • Rumination and executive function in depression: an experimental study

    Edward Watkins;Richard Brown

  • Depression in Parkinson's disease: a quantitative and qualitative analysis.

    A M Gotham;R G Brown;C D Marsden

  • The impact of deep brain stimulation on executive function in Parkinson's disease.

    M. Jahanshahi;C. M. A. Ardouin;R. G. Brown;J. C. Rothwell

  • How common is dementia in Parkinson's disease?

    R.G. Brown;C.D. Marsden

Frequent Co-Authors

Marjan Jahanshahi
Marjan Jahanshahi University College London
Robert Howard
Robert Howard University College London
David J. Burn
David J. Burn Newcastle University
K. Ray Chaudhuri
K. Ray Chaudhuri King's College London
Sabine Landau
Sabine Landau King's College London
Simon Lovestone
Simon Lovestone University of Oxford
Robin G. Morris
Robin G. Morris King's College London
Clive Ballard
Clive Ballard University of Exeter
Martin Knapp
Martin Knapp London School of Economics and Political Science
Niall Quinn
Niall Quinn University College London

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