This episode's guest is Dr. Jan Coebergh. Dr. Coebergh studied medicine at Newcastle University in the UK and completed his neurology training in The Hague, The Netherlands, including a period in acute psychiatry.
Since 2012, he has worked as a Consultant Neurologist at Ashford and St Peter's Hospital NHS Trust, where he leads the neurosciences department and runs a specialist Movement Disorders Clinic. He is also an Honorary Consultant Neurologist at the Atkinson Morley Regional Neuroscience Centre, St George's Hospital London, where he leads the national Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) clinic established by Professor Mark Edwards. There, he works closely with Dr. Glenn Nielsen, specialist physiotherapist, neurologists Dr. Novak and Dr. Teodoro, and teams across neuropsychiatry and the Wolfson rehabilitation unit.
His research spans musical hallucinations, auditory agnosia in Alzheimer's disease, and FND. He has described novel clinical signs, including the shoulder tap test and spiral drawing test in functional tremor, and has collaborated with patient organizations to investigate sleep and dreaming in FND. He has also contributed to numerous studies alongside Dr. Nicholson and Dr. Pick at King's College London, Dr. Nielsen at St George's, and Professor Kaski at UCL, including work on the "broken escalator" phenomenon in FND. His interests extend to functional cognitive disorder, autism spectrum disorder, pregnancy and hormones, and the role of FND in conditions such as stroke, migraine, multiple sclerosis, and Parkinson's disease.
We had a wonderful conversation covering many of these topics and could easily have continued for much longer. We hope you enjoy the episode.
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