[6] Stein came into the public eye when Gordon Brown suggested a student had been discriminated against because of her state school education as she was not offered a place at Magdalen College, Oxford, despite the fact that she had comparable qualifications to the accepted applicants, who came from a broad range of backgrounds.
[8] Stein has published over 450 research articles in scientific journals, covering a wide range of fields in physiology and neuroscience with applications to medical practice.
student, Joe Taylor, Stein has proposed that increasing noradrenergic output from the locus coeruleus via a subcortical irradiance detection pathway may prove effective in the treatment of the condition.
[14] Along with Tipu Aziz, Stein was instrumental in developing deep brain stimulation as a successful treatment for Parkinson's disease following proof-of-concept experiments in non-human primates.
[15][16] With his former doctoral student Daniel Wolpert, Stein unified experimental and neurological observations of cerebellar function via the theory that the cerebellum contains an internal model that predicts both the outcomes of motor commands and the temporal delay of expected sensory feedback.