Dr Graham Jensch Clinical Neuropsychologist
- Patient age group
- Adults
- Consultant registered on
- 10/01/2014
- Primary medical qualifications
- Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, Masters in Clinical Neuropsychology, PGDip in Low Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Gender
- Male
- Services
- Hospitals
Background
Dr Jensch is a lead clinical neuropsychologist at Imperial College Healthcare Private Care, Charing Cross Hospital, London. He has expertise in specialist diagnostic neuropsychological assessments and rehabilitation across a range of neurological conditions including:
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Vascular dementia
- Epilepsy
- Traumatic brain injury
- Encephalitis
- Multiple sclerosis
- Parkinson’s disease
- Frontotemporal dementia
- Stroke
- Subarachnoid haemorrhage
- Brain tumours
- Lewy body dementia
- Functional neurological disorders
Dr Jensch works in both private care and in the NHS. Within his NHS role, Dr Jensch leads the neuropsychology inpatient service at Imperial NHS Trust in stroke, neurology and neurosurgery services, providing holistic neuropsychological assessments, cognitive rehabilitation, and psychological therapy for patients with neurological disorders. He also provides diagnostic neuropsychological assessments, formulations, and cognitive rehabilitation for patients who reports difficulties in a range of cognitive domains such as memory problems and difficulties with executive functioning. He provides evidence-based psychological interventions for patients with neurological conditions using a variety of modalities such as cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and cognitive rehabilitation approaches. Dr Jensch leads the neuropsychology service for pre- and post-neurosurgical assessments for deep brain stimulation and MR-guided focused ultrasound thalamotomy procedures.
In private practice, Dr Jensch provides tailored neuropsychological assessments, formulations, evidence-based cognitive rehabilitation, and recommendations for patients. As part of the service, he provides neuropsychological assessments for professional players in sports such as boxing and rugby. He is accredited by the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) to complete these assessments for boxers as part of their chronic traumatic encephalopathy protocol. He will provide comprehensive assessment and reports at short notice. He has provided medico-legal neuropsychological assessments for rugby players who are part of the legal case against the rugby association bodies.
Expertise
Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, CNS tumours, essential tremor, epilepsy, encephalitis, stroke, intracranial haemorrhage, vascular dementia, frontotemporal dementia, traumatic brain injury, Lewy body dementia, functional neurological disorders.
Research & publications
In his current role within the NHS he completes neuropsychological assessments for people with a range of conditions and cognitive disorders such as dementia, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, CNS tumours, traumatic brain injury, stroke, cerebrovascular disease, Parkinson's disease, encephalitis, neuro-genetics and neuroinflammatory conditions.
For over a decade he has completed pre- and post-surgical neuropsychological assessments for people undergoing neurosurgical interventions such as deep brain stimulation surgery, focused ultrasound thalamotomy, and other neurosurgical procedures (e.g. tumour evacuation).
Dr Jensch has significant experience working in acute neurological and neurosurgical settings with people with a range of cognitive, behavioural, and neuropsychological conditions, offering neuropsychological assessments, formulations, and cognitive rehabilitation, leading the inpatient neuropsychology service in Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust within these areas.
He has completed a significant amount of work with people with functional neurological disorders, particularly dissociative seizures, using a cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) approach. He was one of the therapists on the CODES trial, a UK-wide study ran by King's College London, investigating the efficacy of CBT for dissociative seizures.