Dr Umesh Vivekananda
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Location:
- National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
GMC/GDC number:
6159473
Professional background
Dr Umesh Vivekananda is senior research fellow and honorary consultant at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, UCLH Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and UCL/Institute of Neurology.
He qualified from The University of Oxford and Kings College London. He trained in clinical neurology at St Georges Hospital and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.
He was awarded a PhD funded by a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Training Fellowship for work on neurological channelopathies from UCL. He has received the Queen Square Prize for Neurology, Gordon Holmes Prize in Neuroscience and ILAE Gowers Clinical Science Prize for his research work. He is a current Wellcome Trust career development fellow.
His laboratory’s current aims encompass the translation of cutting edge methodology to epilepsy diagnostics and functional consequence of chronic epilepsy on co-morbidities such as memory formation and anhedonia.
He runs specialist epilepsy clinics at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.
Specialties
Research interests
- Electroencephalography and Magnetoencephalography in epilepsy
- Understanding mood and cognition in medication refractory epilepsy
- Cellular network activity in medication refractory epilepsy (human tissue)