Dr Verity McClelland
Overview
Dr Verity McClelland is a Consultant Clinical Neurophysiologist focussing on paediatrics. Her clinical work at GOSH involves reading and interpreting EEGs and performing and interpreting nerve conduction studies and electromyography in children.
Her research interests are in sensorimotor development and childhood movement disorders. She currently holds an MRC Post-doctoral Clinical Research Training Fellowship at King’s College London, investigating EEG measures of sensorimotor processing in children with dystonia. Her research aims to better understand the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying movement disorders in children, with the goal of providing a more individualised approach to therapy.
Credentials
Paediatric EEG
Paediatric EMG
Research interests are in sensorimotor development and childhood movement disorders
MBBS
PhD
MRCPCH
Member of Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
Member of British Paediatric Neurology Association (BPNA)
Member of British Society for Clinical Neurophysiology
Member of BPNA Research Committee
Dr McClelland’s research interests are in sensorimotor development and childhood movement disorders. She currently holds an MRC Post-doctoral Clinical Research Training Fellowship at King’s College London, investigating EEG measures of sensorimotor processing in children with dystonia. Her research aims to better understand the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying movement disorders in children, with the goal of providing a more individualised approach to therapy.
News & Publications
McClelland VM, Lin JP. Sensorimotor integration in childhood dystonia and dystonic cerebral palsy – a developmental perspective. Frontiers in Neurology 2021 Accepted.
McClelland VM, Fischer P, Foddai E, Dall’Orso, S, Burdet E, Brown P, Lin JP. EEG measures of sensorimotor processing and their development are abnormal in children with isolated dystonia and dystonic cerebral palsy. Neuroimage: Clinical 2021 doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2021.102569
Sakellariou DF, Dall’Orso S, Burdet E, Lin JP, Richardson MP, McClelland VM. Abnormal microscale neuronal connectivity triggered by a proprioceptive stimulus in dystonia. Scientific Reports 2020 10 (1):20758. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-77533-w
Shah SA, Brown P, Gimeno H, Lin J-P, McClelland VM. Application of machine learning using decision trees for prognosis of Deep Brain Stimulation of globus pallidus internus for children with dystonia. Frontiers in Neurology 2020 11:825. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2020.00825
McClelland VM, Cvetkovic Z. Lin J-P, Mills KR, Brown P. Abnormal patterns of corticomuscular and intermuscular coherence in childhood dystonia. Clinical Neurophysiology 2020 131(4):967-977. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinph.2020.01.012
McClelland VM, Fialho D, Flexney-Briscoe D, Holder GE, Elze MC, Gimeno H, Siddiqui A, Mills KR, Selway R, Lin JP. Somatosensory Evoked Potentials and Central Motor Conduction Times in children with dystonia and their correlation with outcomes from Deep Brain Stimulation of the Globus pallidus internus. Clinical Neurophysiology 2018 (129): 473-486. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinph.2017.11.017.
Weinstein M, Green D, Rudisch J, Zielinski IM, Benthem-Muñiz M, Jongsma MLA, McClelland V, Steenbergen B, Shiran S, Ben Bashat D, Barker GJ. Understanding the relationship between brain and upper limb function in children with unilateral motor impairments: A multimodal approach. European Journal of Paediatric Neurology 2018 Jan;22(1):143-154. doi: 0.1016/j.ejpn.2017.09.012.
McClelland VM. The Neurophysiology of Paediatric Movement Disorders. Current Opinion in Pediatrics. 2017 Dec;29(6):683-690. https://doi.org/10.1097/MOP.0000000000000547.
McClelland VM, Valentin A, Rey HG, Lumsden DE, Elze MC, Selway R, Alarcon G, Lin JP. Differences in globus pallidus neuronal firing rates and patterns relate to different disease biology in children with dystonia. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 2016; 87(9):958-67.
Lumsden DE, McClelland VM, Ashmore J, Charles-Edwards G, Mills K, Lin JP. Central Motor Conduction Time and Diffusion Tensor Imaging Metrics in children with complex motor disorders. Clinical Neurophysiology 2015; 126(1):140-6.
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