Alex Leff
Professor of Cognitive Neurology and Honorary Consultant Neurologist at Queen Square
Alexander Leff is a Professor of Cognitive Neurology and an Honorary Consultant Neurologist at Queen Square. His main clinical and academic interest is in cognitive rehabilitation, especially in the field of acquired language disorders. Alexander is a developing mechanistic accounts of how cognitive disorders can be improved by different types of therapy, both pharmacological and behavioural, using functional and structural brain imaging.
He has developed three web-based rehabilitation tools that can be used to by therapists and patients with hemianopia, and am working on four other electronic therapy projects for patients with acquired language disorders.
At the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square in London, he runs a specialist out-patient MDT assessment clinic for patients with hemianopia and/or higher disorders of vision.
