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Kipps, Dr Christopher

MBBS (Hons), FRACP, PhD Christopher Kipps

Speciality

Neurology

Sub-speciality

Cognitive Disorders

Training and Education

I trained in general neurology in Sydney before working as a movement disorder fellow for a year. This was followed by a year as a clinical fellow in Oxford. I then did a PhD in Cambridge in Cognitive Disorders before moving to Southampton General Hospital.

Experience

Dr Kipps has worked for Southampton University Hospitals Trust since July 2007. 

I have general medicine and neurology experience from a wide variety of settings with a particular interest in cognitive and movement disorders.

Key awards and prizes

Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship
Sackler Award

Research

Kipps, C.M., Hodges, J.R., Fry, T.D., Nestor, P.J. Combined MRI and PET brain imaging in behavioural variant FTD: refining the clinical phenotype, Brain (in press), 2009

Kipps, C. M., Nestor, P. J., Acosta-Cabronero, J., Arnold, R., & Hodges, J. R. Understanding social dysfunction in the behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia: the role of emotion and sarcasm processing. Brain 2009.

Piguet, O., Hornberger, M., Shelley, B. P., Kipps, C. M., & Hodges, J. R. Sensitivity of current criteria for the diagnosis of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia. Neurology 2009; 72: 732-737.

Hornberger, M., Piguet, O., Kipps, C., & Hodges, J. R. Executive function in progressive and nonprogressive behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia. Neurology 2008; 71: 1481-1488.

Kipps, C. M., Nestor, P. J., Dawson, C. E., Mitchell, J., & Hodges, J. R. Measuring progression in frontotemporal dementia: implications for therapeutic interventions. Neurology 2008; 70: 2046-2052.

Kipps, C. M., Duggins, A. J., McCusker, E. A., & Calder, A. J. Disgust and happiness recognition correlate with anteroventral insula and amygdala volume respectively in preclinical Huntington's disease. J Cogn Neurosci 2007b; 19: 1206-1217.

Kipps, C. M., Davies, R. R., Mitchell, J., Kril, J. J., Halliday, G. M., & Hodges, J. R. Clinical significance of lobar atrophy in frontotemporal dementia: application of an MRI visual rating scale. Dement.Geriatr.Cogn Disord. 2007a; 23: 334-342.

Rascovsky, K., Hodges, J. R., Kipps, C. M., Johnson, J. K., Seeley, W. W., Mendez, M. F. et al. Diagnostic criteria for the behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD): current limitations and future directions. Alzheimer Dis.Assoc.Disord. 2007; 21: S14-S18.

Kipps, C. M., Duggins, A. J., Mahant, N., Gomes, L., Ashburner, J., & McCusker, E. A. Progression of structural neuropathology in preclinical Huntington's disease: a tensor based morphometry study. J Neurol Neurosurg.Psychiatry 2005; 76: 650-655.