Dr Dipa Jayaseelan, Consultant Neurologist

Dr Dipa Jayaseelan

Consultant Neurologist

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Dr Dipa Jayaseelan MBBS MA PhD MRCP

Consultant Neurologist

MBBS MA PhD MRCP

Dr Dipa Jayaseelan

Consultant Neurologist MBBS MA PhD MRCP

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MBBS MA PhD MRCP
HCA-Healthcare-UK

Areas of expertise

  • Migraine
  • Numbness & sensation abnormalities
  • Myopathy
  • ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)
  • Cluster headache
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About Dr Dipa Jayaseelan

GMC number: 6129799

Year qualified: 2005

Place of primary qualification: University of London

Initial consultation fee: £385

Follow up consultation fee: £275

Dr Jayaseelan specialises in general and acute neurology, with a particular focus on neuromuscular disorders, including muscle channelopathies and inherited muscle diseases. She is highly experienced in managing conditions such as migraine, epilepsy, peripheral neuropathy, myopathy, motor neurone disease and disorders causing weakness, numbness and muscle dysfunction.

She also holds an honorary consultant role at Great Ormond Street Hospital, where she treats paediatric and transition patients, and co-leads nationally commissioned Highly Specialised Services in muscle channelopathies.

Dr Jayaseelan completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Cambridge and qualified in medicine with distinction from University College London. She undertook specialist neurology training at leading London teaching hospitals and was awarded an MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship, completing a PhD in neuromuscular disease at the UCL Institute of Neurology.

Alongside her clinical work, she is an Honorary Lecturer at UCL and is actively involved in research and clinical trials in neuromuscular diseases. She has published widely and contributes to undergraduate and postgraduate medical education as a lecturer, examiner and supervisor.

Dr Jayaseelan is committed to delivering accurate diagnosis, evidence-based care and personalised management for patients with both routine and complex neurological conditions.

Areas of expertise

  • ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)
  • Bell's palsy
  • Brachial plexus injury
  • Brain tumours
  • Carpal tunnel syndrome
  • Cerebral small vessel disease
  • Cervicogenic headache
  • Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP)
  • Claw toes
  • Cluster headache
  • Cognitive neurology
  • Dementia
  • Dementia with lewy bodies
  • Dizziness
  • Dysarthria
  • Dyscalculia
  • Dysgraphia
  • Dysphasia
  • Epilepsy
  • Facial palsy
  • Genetic syndromes
  • Giant cell arteritis (Temporal arteritis)
  • Guillain barre syndrome
  • Headache
  • High pressure headache
  • Huntington's disease
  • Hypoxic/Anoxic brain injury
  • Loss of consciousness (Syncope)
  • Low pressure headache
  • Memory disorders
  • Menstrual migraine
  • Metabolic brain diseases
  • Migraine
  • Motor neurone disease (MND)
  • Multiple sclerosis (MS)
  • Muscle fatigue & wasting
  • Muscle spasm
  • Muscle twitching
  • Muscle weakness
  • Muscular dystrophy
  • Myasthenia gravis
  • Myopathy
  • Nerve root entrapment
  • Neurological pain
  • Neuromuscular disease
  • Numbness & sensation abnormalities
  • Occipital neuralgia
  • Parkinson's disease
  • Paroxysmal hemicrania
  • Peripheral neuropathy
  • Post-Herpetic neuralgia
  • Post-Traumatic headache
  • Seizures
  • Spinal cord injury
  • Spinal cord tumour
  • Spinal disorders
  • Tension headache
  • Transient epileptic amnesia
  • Transient ischaemic attack (TIA)
  • Traumatic brain injury
  • Tremor
  • Trigeminal neuralgia
  • Trigeminal neuropathy
  • Ulnar neuropathy
  • Vascular dementia
  • Vestibular migraine
  • Women's health

Professional memberships

General Medical Council
Royal College of Physicians