Spotlight on researchers

Interested to know who is working to discover more about TS? Follow our Spotlight series to learn more about the dedicated researchers working on this subject.

• Charlotte Sanderson is a research clinical psychologist working on the ORBIT trial - an NIHR funded study looking at the efficacy of online behavioural interventions for tic disorders.
• Sarah Kemp is a student at Lincoln University researching the relationship between Premonitory Urges, Tic Severity and Autism in Males.
• Vishal Rawji is a researcher at University College London.  Read about his research and watch a video about life as a UCL MBPhD student.
• Melina Malli is leading a research study into the Social Care Needs of adults with TS
• Rosanna Fennessy is a researcher based at the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge.  Her research looks at the impact TS has on young people's education, social life and well being.
• Diana Beljaars  talks poignantly on life with her younger sister who has TS
  

• Katherine Dyke  investigates the role of cortical excitability in TS

• Clare Eddy - Read about her brain imaging results here
• Leanne Hockey  investigates whether attentional and/or inhibitory mechanisms are altered in Tourettes

• Elena Nixon focuses on the effectiveness of behavioural therapies for young people with TS 

• Dr Victoria Pile examines how anxiety and low mood affect children and young people with TS

• Charlotte Rae - Research Fellow interested in the role anxiety might have in movement control

• Hilmar Sigurdssond - Research investigating the occurrence and frequency of urges prior to tics and sensory sensitivity