Dr Guy Leschziner MA PHD FRCP

I work as a consultant neurologist at London Bridge Hospital, the Cromwell Hospital and within the Department of Neurology and Sleep Disorders Centre at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals. I am clinical lead for the Sleep Disorders Centre, Guy’s Hospital, one of Europe’s largest sleep units. I am also Reader in Neurology at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London.

I currently undertake general neurology clinics and specialist clinics for sleep disorders and epilepsy.

I completed medical school at Magdalen College, Oxford, and Imperial College at St Mary’s. After general medical training, I went on to complete a PhD in the genetics of epilepsy and drug management at Imperial College and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge. I undertook neurological training at Guy’s and St Thomas’, Charing Cross Hospital and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square. After a fellowship in epilepsy and sleep medicine at St Thomas’ and Queen Square, I joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ as a consultant in 2010.

I lecture regularly and have ongoing research interests in narcolepsy, epilepsy, sleepwalking, Kleine-Levin syndrome and restless legs syndrome. I am currently principal investigator or collaborator in several multi-centre studies involving seizures, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease,narcolepsy, non-REM parasomnias, REM sleep behaviour disorder and insomnia.

I also have an interest in public education. I have recently presented a three part series on BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service on the brain and sleep – “Mysteries of Sleep”. I have also recently filmed “The Secrets of Sleep” for Channel 4 Television. My recent book “The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience and the Secret World of Sleep”, published by Simon and Schuster, is out now.