Dr Thomas Britton is the senior neurological consultant at King's College, the Regional Neuroscience Centre for South London, Kent, and East Sussex. Dr Britton did his undergraduate training at the University of Cambridge and Westminster Medical School, later specialising in neurology at the National Queen Square, Guy's, and the Royal Free. He undertook basic neurophysiological research in movement disorders and tremor at the Institute of Neurology London and the Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf, for which he received the MD prize from the University of Cambridge. He has since developed a broad clinical practice covering all aspects of clinical neurology, including the neurology of medical illness, sleep disorders, movement disorders and tremor, and headache.