Consultant and
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Current NHS consultant posts held

Consultant Neurologist

National Hospital of Neurology and Neurosurgery

Homerton University Hospital NHS Trust

Research interests

Novel strategies for the rehabilitation of cognitive deficits following brain injury.

Personal interests

Tennis, skiing, music

Awards received

Top Teacher Award (Clinical Neurosciences) UCLH 2010
British Council International Young Scientist Award 2006
Wellcome Clinical Research Fellowship 2004-2006
Brain Neurology Research Scholarship 2003-2004
Pollard Scholarship, Wadham College, Oxford 1996

Publications

Selected Publications

Jabbari, Marshall, Longhurst, Sylvester (2014).
Longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis: a rare association with common variable immunodeficiency. Practical Neurology.

Osborne C, Stallworthy S, Evanson J, Sylvester R, Noyce AJ. (2014) Rapid-onset flaccid paraplegia caused by multiple myeloma dumbbell tumour. Practical Neurology.

Sylvester R, & Rees G. Functional Brain Imaging. In: The Oxford Companion to
Consciousness. Oxford University Press (2009).

Sylvester R, Josephs O, Driver J, Rees G. (2007). Visual responses in human superior
colliculus show a temporal hemifield bias that is absent in V1 and LGN. Journal of
Neurophysiology.

Sylvester R, Rees G. (2006). Extraretinal saccadic signals in human LGN and early
retinotopic cortex. Neuroimage.

Bourke J, Sylvester R, Sharma P. (2006). Ethnic variations in the management of patients
with acute stroke. Postgrad. Med. J.

Sylvester R, Haynes J, Rees G. (2005) Saccades differentially modulate human LGN andV1 responses in the presence and absence of visual stimulation. Current Biology.