Webinar | Thursday 5 February 2026, 4PM | Register via Zoom
Understanding how neurological injury affects behaviour, mood and cognition is central to many serious injury and clinical negligence cases. These changes are often the factor that determines capacity, risk, long-term prognosis and, ultimately, case outcome.
This session with Dr Matthew Rowett, Consultant Neuropsychiatrist at NRC Medical Experts, gives legal professionals a clear, practical overview of the psychiatric and behavioural consequences of brain injury, why they arise, and how a structured neuropsychiatric opinion can shift the direction of a case.
What the session covers
Dr Rowett will explain how problems with mood, memory, decision-making, impulse control and aggression emerge after neurological injury. He will set out how these impairments affect day-to-day function, engagement in rehabilitation and safety and show how they shape opinions on capacity, causation and prognosis, particularly in cases where cognitive and psychiatric symptoms sit alongside complex physical injuries.
What you will learn
By the end of the session, attendees will have a clear understanding of:
- How behavioural and psychiatric changes emerge following brain injury
- The role of neuropsychiatric evidence in capacity, causation and prognosis
- How to identify when a neuropsychiatric assessment may change case direction
- Practical examples of neuropsychiatric input in high-risk medico-legal cases
- How rehabilitation-focused psychiatric insight improves outcomes
Who should attend?
This webinar is designed for solicitors, barristers and case managers working on serious injury or clinical negligence cases where behaviour, cognition and mental health intersect with neurological injury. It will be useful for anyone needing clarity on when neuropsychiatric evidence is required, how to interpret it, and how it influences liability, case strategy and rehabilitation planning.
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This session is free to attend.
Every webinar is recorded and shared with all registrants, so if you cannot join live, the full recording will be emailed to you afterwards and made available on our website.
Hosted by NRC Medical Experts – connecting legal teams with impartial, high-quality expertise in neurorehabilitation and complex neurological conditions.
Meet the Speaker
Dr Matthew Rowett, Consultant Neuropsychiatrist, NRC Medical Experts
Dr Matthew Rowett has more than 15 years of post-CCT experience and provides expert opinion in complex civil cases involving brain injury, psychiatric injury, capacity and causation. His medico-legal practice spans personal injury, trauma-related psychiatric conditions, functional disorders and the long-term psychological impact of acquired brain injury.
He holds the Cardiff University Bond Solon Expert Witness Certificate and produces detailed, clinically grounded reports that meet all Part 35 requirements. His work helps courts understand the often-overlooked neuropsychiatric dimensions of injury and their impact on function, recovery and behaviour.
Alongside his medico-legal work, Dr Rowett is Consultant Neuropsychiatrist and Deputy Regional Medical Director (Neuropsychiatry – North) at Cygnet Health Care, leading services for patients with acquired brain injury, functional neurological disorders and psychiatric comorbidities. His clinical experience includes diagnostic assessment, rehabilitation planning and service development. Prior to this, he spent more than a decade as Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist and Associate Clinical Director at Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust, where he established and led liaison and crisis psychiatry services focused on the interface between physical and mental health.
Explore Dr Rowett’s profile & download his CV.