Jessica Eccles

Academic

Dr Jessica Eccles trained in medicine at University of Cambridge and University of Oxford and undertook combined clinical academic training in Psychiatry at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. As an MRC Clinical Research Training Fellow she completed her PhD in the relationship between joint hypermobility, autonomic dysfunction and psychiatric symptoms and is now a Clinical Senior Lecturer. Her interests are in the body-brain relationships in musculoskeletal conditions, particularly variant connective tissue, including anxiety, ADHD, Autism, ‘brain fog,’ and pain and fatigue. She holds a number of grants and was awarded a prestigious MQ Arthritis Research UK Fellows Award to conduct a randomised clinical trial of a new targeted treatment for anxiety in hypermobility and is currently working on a Dysautonomia International funded project to explore multi-model neural correlates of brain fog. Dr Eccles is a now a Clinical Senior Lecturer at Brighton and Sussex Medical School in the Department of Neuroscience. She is an adult liaison psychiatrist and consultant in the Sussex Neurodevelopmental Service and co-lead of their Neurodivergent Brain Body Clinic.