Professor and Consultant Psychiatrist in Neurodevelopmental/Learning disability
MBChB, MMEDSc, MD, PhD, FRCPsych F.IASSID
Nationwide, can travel
Expert Witness in Learning Disability, Down syndrome, Neuropsychiatry, Developmental Disorders (eg ADHD, Autism), Epilpesy, birth trauma, Congenital abnormalities, Cerebral palsy, GMC Investigations.
Visiting Professor of Neuropsychiatry and Consultant Psychiatrist in Neuro-developmental Psychiatry .
Section 12 Approved, on the Specialist Learning Disability Register.
10-15 reports per year.
Quick turn around available.
Research based service:-
Research interests include investigating aspects of biological, physical and psychiatric health morbidity in adults with learning disability; in particular in adults with Down syndrome. Over 20 years involvement in research investigating the aetiology, the diagnosis and the treatment of Alzheimer's disease in older adults with Down syndrome. At present involved in a number of treatment trials for dementia in adults with Down syndrome, involved in genetic, biological and neuroimaging studies.
Professor Prasher has published 14 textbooks.
West Midlands Psychiatry Rotation
2023 update
Member of the Down Syndrome Association and an informal medical adviser to the Association Member and medical advisor to the Down Syndrome Research Foundation and Portsmouth Down Syndrome Trust Member of the Special Interest Ageing Group of the International Association of the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disability Committee member of the Special Interest Physical Health Group of the International Association of the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disability Member of: • The Royal College of Psychiatrists • British Medical Association • Society for the Study of Behavioural Phenotypes • European Down Syndrome Association Member of the Penrose Society (Research group in the field of learning disability in the UK)