SA Branch Travelling Scholar - Dr Adith Mohan

Join us for Functional Neurological Disorders – A Contemporary Overview, presented by Dr Adith Mohan.

Dr Mohan will explore current paradigms in FND neurobiology, narratives and approaches to treatment, providing a contemporary framework for understanding FND, including its epidemiology, pathophysiology and considerations for service planning.

Date: Wednesday 16 September
Where: SA Branch Office
Supper: 6.30pm
Presentation: 7.00pm

RSVP: Friday 11 September

The event is free of charge and includes supper.

Dr Mohan is a senior consultant neuropsychiatrist at the Neuropsychiatric Institute (NPI), Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia. The NPI is a leading neuropsychiatric facility in Australia with an excellent reputation for tertiary specialized services. He is involved in the care of patients with a range of neuropsychiatric and neurocognitive disorders including functional neurological disorders, neurodevelopmental disorders, the neuropsychiatry of epilepsy, immune mediated and degenerative neuropsychiatric disease, and drug-induced movement disorders.

He is also a Research Fellow with the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), and a Senior Lecturer with the Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Sydney, Australia. UNSW. His research interests include clinical care in Functional Neurological Disorders (FND), functional genomics of human brain ageing, Immunopsychiatry as well as therapeutic neuromodulation in neuropsychiatric disorders. He is the Chief Investigator on a clinical research program investigating a novel interdisciplinary clinical program in FND and is currently leading the establishment of a world-first clinical consortium for FND clinics in Australia and New Zealand.

He is actively involved in the Section of Neuropsychiatry (SoN) of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, is the jurisdictional representative for the state of New South Wales on the SoN.