Neuropsychiatry Expert Witnesses

Neuropsychiatry is a sub-speciality of psychiatry covering overlapping areas between neurology and psychiatry. It concerns the diagnosis of disorders resulting from organic or physical defects in the brain.

Neuropsychiatry Expert Witness are often instructed in cases with psychiatric symptomology associated with neurological disorders or illness with specific brain dysfunctions. This may include seizure disorders,  developmental disorders involving the brain, neurodegenerative diseases (Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, etc.), cerebral vascular disease,  brain tumours, infectious and inflammatory diseases of the brain, alcohol and other substance-induced organic mental disorders.

Our Neuropsychiatry Experts Witness are able to assist the court by providing neuropsychiatric reports in all areas of law including criminal, family law, personal injury and parole board hearings.

Our Neuropsychiatry expert witnesses can offer the following:

• Psychiatric assessment of trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder
• Complex neuropsychiatric assessments
• Mental Capacity Act assessments
• Robust care management plans and recommendations for intervention
• Forensic neuropsychiatry
• Fitness to plead in neurological or neuropsychiatry disorders
• Mental capacity in neurological or neuropsychiatric disorders
• Traumatic brain injury and its role in offending and criminal cases
• Parenting assessments in complex neuropsychiatric conditions