Julian Taylor is a Physiologist with a PhD in Neurophysiology and Neuropharmacology from the University of Nottingham. Julian is involved with clinical and basic studies related to sensorimotor pathophysiology and chronic complications that develop after spinal cord injury. He is currently working in a dual position as Research Director at Stoke Mandeville Spinal Research at the National Spinal Injuries Centre and as Group Leader at the National Hospital for Paraplegics in Toledo, Spain.
Research
Julian has published in the field of pain, motor dysfunction (spasticity) and new measures of adaptive neuroplasticity following rehabilitation after spinal cord injury (see below). At Stoke Mandeville Spinal Research he is directing projects into the treatment of chronic complications, activity based rehabilitation and paediatric spinal cord injury. At the National Hospital for Paraplegics in Spain he is investigating how both neuropathic pain and spasticity after spinal cord injury can be diagnosed better and how exploring new treatment strategies including non-invasive neuromodulation and controlled exercise, and the development of a humanised pharmacological strategy based on a modified omega-9 fatty acid.
Teaching
In Spain Julian participates as Honorary Professor for the Master´s course for the study of pain at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid.
Selected clinical and basic research papers (for a full list click here)
Stefano Piazza, Julio Gómez-Soriano, Elisabeth Bravo-Esteban, Diego Torricelli, Gerardo Avila-Martin, Iriana Galan-Arriero, Jose Luis Pons, Taylor J. Maintenance of cutaneomuscular neuronal excitability after leg-cycling predicts lower limb muscle strength after incomplete spinal cord injury. Clinical Neurophysiology 2016 Jun;127(6):2402-9.
Julio Gómez-Soriano, Elisabeth Bravo-Esteban, Enrique Pérez-Rizo, Gerardo Avíla-Martín, Iriana Galán-Arriero, Cristina Simón-Martinez, Julian Taylor. Abnormal cutaneous flexor reflex activity during controlled movement in human spinal cord injury spasticity syndrome. Spinal Cord 2016 Feb 23. doi: 10.1038/sc.2016.9
Filipe Barroso, Diego Torricelli, Elisabeth Bravo-Esteban, Julian Taylor, Julio Gómez-Soriano, Cristina Santos, Juan Moreno, Jose Luis Pons. Muscle Synergies in Cycling after Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury: Correlation with Clinical Measures of Motor Function and Spasticity. Front Hum Neurosci. 2016 Jan 11;9:706. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2015.00706
Sergiu Albu, Julio Gómez-Soriano, Gerardo Avila-Martin, Julian Taylor. Deficient conditioned pain modulation after spinal cord injury correlates with clinical spontaneous pain measures. Pain. 2015 Feb;156(2):260-72
