Guy Leschziner

Professor Guy Leschziner is a Consultant Neurologist with comprehensive experience in general neurology and specialist expertise in sleep medicine and epilepsy. He completed his medical training in London and went on to undertake a PhD at Imperial College London in collaboration with the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge, where his research focused on the genetics of epilepsy and responses to antiepileptic drug treatment.

He completed higher specialist training in neurology at two leading UK centres, the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals. In parallel with his clinical practice, Professor Leschziner holds the role of Professor of Neurology and Sleep Medicine at King’s College London, where his research programme examines a range of sleep and neurological disorders.

Professor Leschziner lectures regularly contributes expert commentary to BBC Radio 4 and the World Service. He is also the author of The Nocturnal Brain and The Man Who Tasted Words, which aim to make neuroscience accessible to a broader readership.

His clinical practice addresses a wide spectrum of neurological presentations, including headache and migraine, tremor, weakness, sensory symptoms such as numbness and tingling, epilepsy, and complex sleep-related conditions.