Neuropsychological Evidence in Paediatric Brain Injury: Dr Nigel Colbert & Hylton Armstrong

By Dr Nigel Colbert, Consultant Clinical Paediatric Neuropsychologist

Posted 18 February 2026

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Tags:

  • Neuropsychology
  • Traumatic Brain Injury
  • Brain Imaging Litigation

Expert Disciplines:

  • Paediatric Neuropsychology

About The Author

Dr Nigel Colbert INNEG

Dr Nigel Colbert

Consultant Clinical Paediatric Neuropsychologist

Dr Nigel Colbert is a Consultant Clinical Paediatric Neuropsychologist with over ten years’ medico-legal experience and more than two decades working in community-based neurorehabilitation. He is registered on the British Psychological Society’s Specialist Register of Clinical Neuropsychologists and has extensive experience assessing children and young people with acquired brain injury, cerebral palsy and complex developmental conditions.

Dr Colbert’s practice combines psychometric expertise with detailed developmental formulation, focusing on long-term functional outcomes in education, social adaptation and employability. His dual experience in rehabilitation and medico-legal reporting informs a structured yet child-centred approach to causation and prognosis in paediatric brain injury litigation.

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Neuropsychological Evidence in Paed Brain Injury: Dr Nigel Colbert & Hylton Armstrong