Mahinda Yogarajah is a consultant neurologist and clinical academic based in the Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and Queen Square Institute of Neurology. His research interest is in epilepsy and functional neurological disorders, and in particular functional seizures. He carries out regular neurology and epilepsy clinics, and also a regular joint neurology-neuropsychiatric clinic for patients with functional seizures. His group currently uses a variety of methods including phenomenology, advanced structural and functional imaging, EEG, and psycho-physics / psychophysiology to better understand the nature of functional neurological disorders. The primary purpose of his research is to develop a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying functional neurological disorders and how this may then be translated into better diagnostic and therapeutic approaches.

Mahinda Yogarajah graduated from UCL in medicine with an intercalated BSC in Neurosciences. He undertook a PHD within the Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy at UCL based on the application of advanced neuroimaging techniques to patients with epilepsy. He completed his neurology training at the Atkinson Morley Regional Neurosciences Unit at St George's University Hospital in London, and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.

Following completion of his neurological training, he was awarded an MRC Clinical Academic Research Partnership with Prof Sarah Garfinkel at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, which currently funds his research.