DR DIANA RUGE

NEUROLOGY & PSYCHIATRY SPECIALIST

Dr Diane Ruge is a Neurologist and Research Fellow on the Functional Neurosurgery Team. She has worked at UCL Institute of Neurology and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and started working with the Deep Brain Stimulation Team since 2006.
She did her general medical training at University of Goettingen and Toronto. She has completed her specialist
training to become a board-certified neurologist. She obtained a higher research degree in Clinical Neurophysiology in Germany in 2003. Her thesis was about the brain excitability in patients with focal dystonia. She then worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the field of electrophysiology of movement and movement disorders. Since 2006 she has worked for John Rothwell who is a Professor for Neurophysiology at UCL.
Her research in the Unit of Functional Neurosurgery is focusing on the exploration of the mechanism of an effective deep brain stimulation by using electrophysiological and imaging techniques. Clinically she is doing pre and post-surgery management of the patients. She has been published 67 times for her research works with 2093 citations.
Her research in the Unit of Functional Neurosurgery is focusing on the exploration of the mechanism of an effective deep brain stimulation by using electrophysiological and imaging techniques. Clinically she is doing pre and post-surgery management of the patients.
Her research into cannabis and its effects on the neurosystem will prove valuable to produce products to help promote the medicinal benefits of cannabis.