Dr. Maha Ahmed Elamin Hummeida
Specialist psychiatrist with expertise in neuropsychiatric conditions and autoimmune encephalitis
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Experience
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Languages
Arabic, English, English Arabic
Location
Dubai
Sees
adults
- ✦Published research on neuropsychiatric manifestations of neurocysticercosis
- ✦Specialised in psychiatric symptoms of autoimmune encephalitis
- ✦Over 20 years' clinical experience in psychiatry
About Dr. Maha Ahmed Elamin Hummeida
Dr. Maha Ahmed Elamin Hummeida is a psychiatrist based in Dubai, practising at Dubai Health since 2011. She trained at the University of Khartoum in Sudan, where she completed her medical degree in 1989 and went on to specialise in clinical psychiatry, earning her MD in 1999. Before joining Dubai Health, she worked at Ibrahim Bin Hamad Obaidallah Hospital from 2002 to 2011.
Her clinical interests focus on the psychiatric and neurological complications of serious medical conditions. She has published research on neuropsychiatric manifestations of neurocysticercosis (a parasitic infection affecting the brain) and psychiatric symptoms associated with anti-NMDA receptor autoimmune encephalitis, a rare but serious brain inflammation. These publications reflect her engagement with complex cases where psychiatric symptoms arise from underlying neurological disease.
Special interests: neuropsychiatric manifestations of infectious diseases, autoimmune encephalitis, brain inflammation and psychiatric symptoms.
A good choice if you…
- ✓have psychiatric symptoms linked to neurological or autoimmune conditions
- ✓need assessment of complex brain-related mental health presentations
- ✓seek a psychiatrist with research expertise in rare neuropsychiatric disorders
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