Jonathan Schott

Jonathan Schott is Professor of Neurology at the Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, and Honorary Consultant Neurologist at Queen Square.

His clinical practice and research centre on the dementias, with particular interests in how clinical and cognitive data, imaging and fluid biomarkers, and genetics can be used and combined to improve differential diagnosis and identify pre-symptomatic dementia. He co-leads the mental ageing programme of the MRC British 1946 birth cohort.

He has published >350 papers on dementia and ageing, and co-edited the award winning Oxford Textbook of Cognitive Neurology and Dementia. He is Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Fellow of the European Academy of Neurology, Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, and an MRC Investigator. He is is Chair Emeritus of the ISTAART advisory council and serves as Chief Medical Officer for Alzheimer’s Research UK, Europe’s largest dementia research charity.