Over two decades of consultant neuropsychiatry in the NHS, now offering private assessment and treatment for adults living with the cognitive, emotional and behavioural effects of neurological illness.
Dr Baskaran Sridharan is a Consultant Neuropsychiatrist with over twenty years of substantive NHS practice in a busy tertiary neuropsychiatry service in Stoke-on-Trent, providing specialist assessment and treatment for adults across Staffordshire and the wider Midlands.
He qualified in medicine at the University of Madras in 1993 before completing higher psychiatric training in the United Kingdom. He holds dual CCST in Learning Disability and General Adult Psychiatry, together with twelve months of accredited specialist training in Neuropsychiatry — an unusually broad foundation that informs his approach to complex, overlapping presentations. He has been a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists since 1998.
As clinical lead for a multidisciplinary community neuropsychiatry team serving a population of approximately 250,000, he provides specialist input across three NHS trusts and to the regional Brain Injury Rehabilitation Service. He served on the Executive Committee of the Faculty of Neuropsychiatry at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, completing his term in 2020, and has been an Honorary Clinical Lecturer at Keele University Medical School for two decades.
Dr Sridharan’s approach is collaborative, unhurried and evidence-led. He believes that good neuropsychiatric care begins with listening carefully — to patients, to families, and to the clinicians who already know them — and that the most useful diagnosis is the one that points clearly to what to do next.
Assessment, diagnosis and management of adult ADHD, including complex and comorbid presentations. Dr Sridharan has developed an NHS adult ADHD pre-assessment screening tool.
Diagnostic assessment of Autism Spectrum Disorder in adults, including late-identified and intellectually able presentations where the diagnosis has previously been missed.
Diagnostic clarification in early or atypical dementia, mild cognitive impairment, behavioural-variant FTD and Lewy body disease. Validated cognitive assessment (ACE-III, MoCA, NPI).
Neuropsychiatric sequelae of acquired and traumatic brain injury — mood, cognition, behaviour and persistent post-concussion symptoms — built on twenty years working with a specialist rehabilitation service.
Psychiatric features of Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s, progressive supranuclear palsy and corticobasal syndrome, including non-motor symptoms and behavioural change.
Assessment, formulation and treatment of functional neurological disorder, functional seizures and non-epileptic attack disorder, drawing on a biopsychosocial framework.
Further areas of practice include Tourette’s syndrome and tic disorders, epilepsy-related neuropsychiatry, intellectual disability psychiatry, and the neuropsychiatric features of autoimmune and rare neurometabolic conditions.
Neuropsychiatry asks a question that neurology and psychiatry alone cannot — what does it mean for this person to live this way, and what can we change?
A thorough first assessment including review of medical records, cognitive screening where appropriate, formulation and management plan. A written report is provided to the patient and, with consent, the referring clinician.
Comprehensive diagnostic assessment for adult ADHD, including pre-assessment screening, structured clinical interview, collateral history where available and formulation of comorbid presentations. Written diagnostic report and treatment recommendations.
Continuing review, medication titration and integrated management with neurologists, GPs and other treating clinicians.
Detailed reassessment for patients with diagnostic uncertainty, treatment-resistant presentations or unusual combinations of neurological and psychiatric symptoms, with a structured written opinion.
Expert neuropsychiatric reports for personal injury, clinical negligence, capacity, fitness to plead and employment matters. Over ten years of expert witness practice; reports prepared to Civil Procedure Rules Part 35 standards.
In-person and remote video consultations are available. Recognised by major private medical insurers; self-funding patients welcome.
Referrals are accepted from GPs, neurologists, other consultants and directly from patients. For urgent clinical matters please contact your GP or attend your nearest emergency department.
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