Dr Verity McClelland is an academic paediatric Clinical Neurophysiologist with particular interests in sensorimotor physiology, the development of motor control and understanding the mechanisms underlying movement disorders in children. She holds an MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowship, and is based in the department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience (IOPPN), King’s College London, working closely also with the KCL Centre for the Developing Brain (Department of Early Life Imaging, St Thomas’ Campus).

Dr McClelland also holds an honorary consultant position in Paediatric Clinical Neurophysiology at St Thomas’ and Evelina London Children’s Hospital, where her clinical work includes EEG, EMG, nerve conduction studies and evoked potentials, including transcranial magnetic stimulation. Her current research links the IOPPN with the Evelina London Children’s Hospital Complex Motor Disorders Service, a cutting-edge clinical service offering Deep Brain Stimulation for children with refractory movement disorders. She aims to use neurophysiological tools to understand the pathophysiological mechanisms of childhood dystonia/dystonic cerebral palsy and to translate this knowledge into clinical practice, to improve outcomes and quality of life for children with severely disabling movement disorders.

Current projects include investigating EEG measures of sensory processing, neuronal connectivity and cortex-muscle interactions, and developing a Brain Computer Interface to deliver EEG-based neurofeedback. Dr McClelland’s research is cross-disciplinary and includes collaborations with colleagues in signal processing, engineering, machine learning and imaging as well as her strong clinical links with paediatric neurosciences.