Dr Akshay Nair
Clinical Interests
Dr Nair is a consultant neuropsychiatrist at the Atkinson Morley Regional Neuroscience Centre, St George’s Hospital (SGH) with a particular interest in acquired brain injury, neurorehabilitation, and Huntington’s disease.
He is the service lead for the traumatic brain injury neurorehabilitation service at SGH and responsible consultant for the Wolfson Hyperacute Rehabilitation Unit Level 1 beds on Kent ward. He also has an outpatient neuropsychiatry clinic for patients with brain injury and provides psychiatric consultant input into the Wolfson Cognitive Rehabilitation Service.
Dr Nair is also a consultant in the Regional Huntington’s Service (which brings together expertise from genetics, neurology, and neuropsychiatry to offer a comprehensive outpatient-based service for patients and families with HD in the region). He is Co-Chair of the UK & Ireland Huntington’s Disease Network.
He remains active in research and is an honorary senior clinical lecturer at St. George’s University. He has an active interest in improving access to mental health services for patients with neurology and the application of computational techniques to better understand neuropsychiatric symptoms.
Professional profile
Dr Nair read medicine at Oxford University and graduated in 2003. He completed his core psychiatric training as an academic clinical fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry and Maudsley Hospital and completed research in schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease.
He went on to complete a PhD in computational neuropsychiatry at UCL as a Wolfson Fellow based across the UCL HD Centre and the Max Planck Centre, during which he was the clinical lead for HD Neuropsychiatry at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. He was awarded the prestigious Alwyn Lishman Prize from the British Neuropsychiatry Association for his PhD research into apathy.
He returned to the Maudsley to complete his higher psychiatric training including further training in neuropsychiatry at St. Thomas’ Hospital. He completed his training with CCTs in General and Older Adult Psychiatry with an accreditation in Liaison Psychiatry.
Dr Nair has published papers in the field of neuropsychiatry with a particular focus on cognitive and computational neuroscience.