neurotaylor

Research

For my research publications, see the list below (I’ve added the papers themselves where possible), or try my SCOPUS ID, my ORCID ID, or my profile on ResearchGate. For recent work, see the ‘Research output’ page on my University of Birmingham profile.

Sample Publications

BOOKS and CHAPTERS

● Taylor, K. (2020), Dementia: a Very Short Introduction. Oxford, Oxford University Press.

● Taylor, K. (2016), The Fragile Brain: the strange, hopeful science of dementia. Oxford, Oxford University Press.

● Taylor, K. (2012), The Brain Supremacy: notes from the frontiers of neuroscience. Oxford, Oxford University Press.

● Taylor, K. (2009), Cruelty: human evil and the human brain. Oxford, Oxford University Press.

● Taylor, K. (2006), “On brainwashing”, in The Barbarization of Warfare, ed. G. Kassimeris; New York University Press.

● Taylor, K. (2004, 2006, 2016), Brainwashing: the science of thought control. Oxford, Oxford University Press.

● Taylor, K.E. (2003). The possible role of abnormal platelet-activating factor metabolism in psychiatric disorders. Phospholipid Spectrum Disorders in Psychiatry and Neurology. 2nd ed: Marius Press.

PRIZE ESSAYS

My Times Higher Education Supplement prize-winning essays were on the biochemistry of dyslexia (here) and on the relationship of imagination and knowledge (here).

MEDIA PIECES

● ‘Thinking about Mental Health’, book review for the Times Literary Supplement, March 1, 2024.

● ‘The Limits of Love’, book review for the Times Literary Supplement, June 2, 2023.

● ‘Masters of Mind Control’, BBC Focus magazine, issue 254, May 2013.

● A piece about disgust and morality for the Guardian.

● “So, do you know who’s pulling your strings?“, Times Higher Education Supplement, 26 November 2004.

● A Guardian essay on brainwashing and terrorism.

● Pieces in the Guardian and Daily Mirror following the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il in December 2011.

● ‘Cruel intentions‘, RSA Journal, March 2012.

SAMPLE ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

● Taylor, K. and G. Wright (2025), ‘Dr Cowley’s Reading List: Annotation, Completion, and the Problem of Plants in Sex Libri Plantarum’, The Seventeenth Century: 1-18.

Taylor, K. and G. Wright (2023). ‘Abraham Cowley’s Sex Libri Plantarum and the“J. O.” conundrum’, Restoration: studies in English literary culture, 1660-1700: 47.2 Fall 2023, 3-25.

● Taylor, K. and G. Wright (2023). ‘‘The rich help of books’: patterns of annotation in Latin and English versions of Abraham Cowley’s Sex Libri Plantarum‘, The Seventeenth Century: 1-24. Website.

● Taylor, K.E. and Wright, G. (2017), A computational approach to the poetry of Katherine Philips’, first published in Women’s Writing (2017; publisher website), now available in book form here.

● Taylor, K.E. (2008), Review of Women as Weapons of War, by Kelly Oliver. Critical Studies in Terrorism, 1, 3.

● Taylor, K.E. (2007), Disgust is a factor in extreme prejudice, British Journal of Social Psychology, 46(3), 597-617. PDF here.

● Taylor, K.E. (2006), Intergroup atrocities in war: a neuroscientific perspective, Medicine, Conflict and Survival, 22, 230-44. PDF here.

● Taylor, K.E. (2004). Familial cancer and developmental dyslexia: an observational pilot study, Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 46(2), 119-27. PDF here.

● Francks, C., Fisher, S.E., Marlow, A.J., MacPhie, I.L., Taylor, K.E., Richardson, A.J., Stein, J.F. and Monaco, A.P. (2003), Familial and genetic effects on motor coordination, laterality, and reading-related cognition, American Journal of Psychiatry, 160, 1970-7.

● Taylor, K.E. and Walter, J. (2003), Occupation choices of adults with and without symptoms of dyslexia, Dyslexia, 9(3), 177-85. PDF here.

● Taylor, K.E. and Stein, J.F. (2002). Dyslexia and familial high blood pressure: an observational pilot study, Archives of Disease in Childhood, 86(1), 30-3. PDF here.

● Taylor, K.E., Richardson, A.J. and Stein, J.F. (2001). Could platelet-activating factor play a role in developmental dyslexia?, Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids, 64(3), 173-80. PDF here.

● Taylor, K.E. (2001). Applying continuous modelling to consciousness, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 8, 2, 45-60.

● Taylor, K.E., Higgins, C.J., Calvin, C.M., Hall, J.A., Easton, T., McDaid, A.M. and Richardson, A.J. (2000). Dyslexia in adults is associated with clinical signs of fatty acid deficiency, Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids, 63(1/2), 75-8. PDF here.

● Taylor, K.E. and Richardson, A. J. (2000). Visual function, fatty acids and dyslexia, Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes, and Essential Fatty Acids, 63(1), 89-93. PDF here.