Learning Assessment and Neurocare Centre: Treatment for ADHD and neurodevelopmental disorders in London and Horsham, West Sussex

The Learning Assessment and Neurocare Centre is an independent organisation based in Upper Harley Street (Brunswick Place), London, and Horsham, West Sussex, RH12 2PD offering treatment of complex neurodevelopmental difficulties, especially ADHD and related conditions including Asperger's syndrome, specific learning difficulties, dyslexia, Tourette syndrome, and emotional and behavioural problems.

The Learning Assessment and Neurocare Centre (LANC) is an independent, multi-disciplinary clinic in Upper Harley Street (Brunswick Place), London and Horsham, West Sussex. It specialises in the management of children, adolescents, and adults with complex neurodevelopmental difficulties, especially ADHD and related conditions including Asperger's syndrome, specific learning difficulties, dyslexia, Tourette syndrome, and emotional and behavioural problems. As many of these conditions interact and overlap, there is a great deal of emphasis placed on careful evaluation and subsequent liaison with schools and other involved organisations.

History of Learning Assessment and Neurocare Centre

The Learning Assessment and Neurocare Centre was established in 1993, largely out of concern at that time, at the extreme lack of appropriate service provision for the assessment and management of children with complex neurodevelopmental difficulties. Over the past 17 years the centre has seen more than 6000 people with these conditions, sees up to 240 new patients annually from all over the country and overseas, and has about 1600 patients on its active long-term clinical management list. The centre has developed a local and also a national reputation for being able to assess children, adolescents, and adults with suspected neurodevelopmental difficulties in an experienced and comprehensive way. Whilst it sees people with the more straightforward problems, it also has a great deal of expertise in the assessment and management of people with complex difficulties.

Services offered by LANC in London and West Sussex

Location for treatment of neurodevelopmental difficulties

The Learning Assessment and Neurocare Centre (LANC) is an independent, multi-disciplinary clinic in Upper Harley Street (Brunswick Place), London and Horsham, West Sussex (about 12 miles from Gatwick Airport). Horsham is a very pretty former market town. For exact directions please click here.

What are the centre’s strengths that could be helpful to your child or yourself?

The reason why so many people have chosen to utilise the services of The Learning Assessment and Neurocare Centre over the years include:

• Comprehensive and experienced assessment: The clinic staff have had invaluable experience over the past 17 years assessing children, adolescents and adults with a wide range of neurodevelopmental difficulties, particularly ADHD and coexisting difficulties. 

• School liaison is an essential part of a child’s clinical management at the centre. Information is requested from schools via the centre's teacher feedback form prior to the assessment, together with as much other information as possible from previous school reports and assessments. 

• For children with ADHD, in addition to educational, behavioural management and medication support where appropriate, neurofeedback is now available. Neurofeedback is a brain-training programme for which there is a strong evidence base. 

• The LANC has always taken a lifespan approach to the management of people with ADHD recognising for many years that children, adolescents, and adults can have significant problems with the condition and that it is not just a condition of childhood.

LANC professionals for treatment of neurodevelopmental disorders

Dr Geoff Kewley, Consultant Neurodevelopmental Pediatrician

Dr Geoff Kewley is a consultant pediatrician specialising in the management of children, adolescents, and adults with neurodevelopmental, behavioural and specific learning difficulties, especially Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and related problems.

In 1993, after 16 years working as a general pediatrician in Australia and 4 as a UK NHS consultant, he established The Learning Assessment and Neurocare Centre in Horsham, West Sussex, UK.

Dr Sanjay Jain, Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist, M.B.B.S, MRCPsych, Cert Mgmt (HSC)(Open)

Dr Sanjay Jain is a consultant general adult psychiatrist also working in the NHS, who has a wide range of experience in the management of common mental illnesses such as mood and anxiety disorders, drug and alcohol issues, perinatal, schizophrenia, medico legal matters, with a special interest in the management of adult attention–deficit/hyperactivity disorder and related issues.

Dr Nicholas Myttas, BA, MD, MRCPsych

Dr Myttas has previously been a full time consultant in child and adolescent psychiatry for Barnet Enfield Haringey Mental Health Services NHS Trust and for East London Foundation Mental Health NHS Trust over a period of seventeen years.

He trained in adult psychiatry at the Charing Cross Hospital Postgraduate Higher Psychiatric Training Rotation Scheme and then in child and adolescent psychiatry at St George’s Hospital in London. He has also had further training in child and adolescent psychiatry at the Tavistock Clinic, the Anna Freud Centre, and the Institute of Family Therapy.

Dr Neil Rutterford

Dr Neil Rutterford is a chartered psychologist and scientist, and is a lecturer in psychology at the University of East Anglia. Neil previously worked at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and was Head of Centre for Psychology and Counselling at Swansea Metropolitan University.  He completed a PhD in neuropsychology at Swansea University in 2005 after working in clinical settings with a number of neuro-rehabilitation providers.  Neil was trained and accredited in neurofeedback by EEG Spectrum.