Jessica Eccles
Reader in Brain-Body Medicine at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Consultant Psychiatrist at Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Chair of the Neurodevelopmental Psychiatry Special Interest Group at the Royal College of Psychiatrists
Dr Jessica Eccles is a Consultant Psychiatrist in the Neurodevelopmental Service at Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, specializing in adult ADHD, autism and Tourette syndrome.
Within that service she co-leads the world’s first Neurodivergent Brain-Body Clinic.
Having trained in medicine at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, she completed integrated academic training in Psychiatry at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, where she undertook an MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship.
She is now a Reader in Brain-Body Medicine at the BSMS Department of Clinical Neuroscience where she leads prize winning research on a broad range of projects that link differences in the body to a variety of physical and mental health conditions.
She is particularly interested in the emerging link with neurodivergence.
She chairs the Neurodevelopmental Psychiatry Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
She is a passionate educator and committed to public engagement.
She hopes to encourage curiosity and challenge stereotypes.
