Dr Novraj Dhanjal
Telephone:
Location:
- National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
GMC/GDC number:
6038671
Professional background
Dr Dhanjal is a consultant neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.
He studied medicine at Guy's, King's and St. Thomas' School of Medicine in London, where he also completed an intercalated BSc. in Pharmacology. He was appointed to the Hammersmith Hospital medical rotation, to complete his postgraduate general medical training, which included posts at the Royal Brompton and Royal Free hospitals.
He was awarded a clinical reseach fellowship from the Royal College of Physicians and Dunhill Medical Trust to investigate verbal episodic memory in patients with Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitve impairment, using functional magnetic resonance imaging. He was subsequently awarded a clinical research training fellowship from the Medical Research Council (UK) to continue this research. He completed his PhD at Imperial College London in 2011.
Dr Dhanjal trained in neurology on the Imperial College rotation in west London, working at Charing Cross, St Mary's, Chelsea and Westminster, and the Hammersmith hospitals. He was a senior registrar at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.
Dr Dhanjal runs a cognitive disorders clinic at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. In addition, he runs general neurology and headache clinics.
Specialties
Publications
- Dhanjal NS, Wise RJS. Frontoparietal cognitive control of verbal memory recall in Alzheimer’s disease. Annals of Neurology 2014; 76(2): 241-251
- Dhanjal NS, Warren JE, Patel MC, Wise RJS. Auditory cortical function during verbal episodic memory encoding in Alzheimer's disease. Annals of Neurology 2013; 73(2): 294-302
- Dhanjal NS, Handunnetthi L, Patel MC, Wise RJS. Perceptual systems controlling speech production. Journal of Neuroscience 2008; 28(40): 9969-9975
- Woodhead ZV, Brownsett SL, Dhanjal NS, Beckmann C, Wise RJ. The visual word form system in context. (2011) Journal of Neuroscience 31(1):193-9
- Simmonds AJ, Wise RJ, Dhanjal NS, Leech R. A comparison of sensory-motor activity during speech in first and second languages. Journal of Neurophysiology 2011; 106(1): 470-8
- Grover VP, McPhail MJ, Wylezinska-Arridge M, Crossey M, Fitzpatrick JA, Southern L, Saxby BK, Cook NA, Cox IJ, Waldman AD, Dhanjal NS, Bak-Bol A, Williams R, Morgan MY, Taylor-Robinson SD. A longitudinal study of patients with cirrhosis treated with L-ornithine L-aspartate, examined with magnetization transfer, diffusion-weighted imaging and magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Metabolic Brain Disease 2017; 32(1): 77-86
- McPhail MJ, Leech R, Grover VP, Fitzpatrick JA, Dhanjal NS, Crossey MM, Pflugrad H, Saxby BK, Wesnes K, Dresner MA, Waldman AD, Thomas HC, Taylor-Robinson SD. Modulation of neural activation following treatment of hepatic encephalopathy. Neurology 2013; 80(11): 1041-7
- McPhail MJ, Dhanjal NS, Grover VP, Taylor-Robinson SD. Ammonia and cerebral water. Importance of structural analysis of the brain in hepatic encephalopathy. Journal of Hepatology 2011; 56(2): 506
- Hamilton G, Mathur R, Allsop J, Forton DM, Dhanjal NS, Shaw RJ, Taylor-Robinson SD. Hypoxic COPD and Oxygen Therapy: Changes in Brain Intracellular pH and Membrane Phospholipids. Metabolic Brain Disease 2003; 18: 95-109
- Patel N, Dhanjal NS, White S, Oatridge A, Thomas HC, Taylor-Robinson SD. Brain swelling in minimal hepatic encephalopathy: A co-registered MRI study. Metabolic Brain Disease 2004; 19: 431-445