Dr Arjuna Nagendran is a consultant clinical neurophysiologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, part of University College London Hospitals NHS Trust. He investigates disorders affecting nerves, muscles and brain electrical activity in adults and children.

His specialist interests include electromyography, nerve conduction studies and nerve excitability studies. He investigates carpal and cubital tunnel syndromes, nerve and spinal root entrapment, peripheral neuropathy, myasthenia gravis and motor neurone disease. He also reports routine and prolonged EEG recordings and has an interest in adult and paediatric epilepsy.

Dr Nagendran studied medicine at University College London and completed specialist training at Queen Square and Great Ormond Street Hospital, gaining experience across adult and paediatric neurophysiology.

In his NHS practice, he leads a team providing EMG, nerve conduction studies, EEG and evoked potentials. He also leads neurophysiology for the nationally commissioned highly specialised muscle channelopathy service at the MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases.