Professor Christopher Kennard

Academic Positions

Supernumary Fellow in Medicine, Brasenose College
Emeritus Professor of Clinical Neurology, University of Oxford

Qualifications

MBBS, PhD, FRCP, FMedSci

Background: Biography

Christopher Kennard is a medical graduate of the University of London, training in neurology in London and Oxford, and was appointed Consultant Neurologist at the Royal London Hospital, subsequently moving to Imperial College London as Professor of Clinical Neurology. At Imperial he was Head of the Division of Clinical Neurosciences and Psychological Medicine and Deputy Principal of the Faculty of Medicine. In 2008 he moved to the University of Oxford as Professor of Clinical Neurology and Head of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences (2008-2016), and Senior Nicholas Kurti Fellow at Brasenose College.

He has held a variety of senior roles including editor of the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry (1997-2003), Chairman of the Medical Research Council’s Neuroscience and Mental Health Board (2006-2012), President of the Association of British Neurologists (2003-2005) and the European Neuro-ophthalmology Society (2011- 15).

He has published over 250 scientific papers. Since 2018 he has been the Senior Responsible Owner for the Life and Mind Building Project.

Research Interests

Professor Kennard’s has researched widely in cognitive neuroscience and visual sciences, particularly using the analysis of abnormalities of visual perception and eye movements in human neurological disease to further understanding of brain function.

Recent Publications 

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2018 Attwood JE, Kennard C, Harris J, Humphries G, Antoniades CA. A comparison of change blindness in real-world and on-screen viewing of museum artifacts. Front Psychol Feb 16;9;151
2019 Larcombe SJ, Kennard C, O’Shea J, Bridge H. No effect of anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over hMT+ on motion perception learning. Front Neurosci 17/12;1044
2019 Lu Z, Buchanan T, Kennard C, FitzGerald JJ, Antoniades CA. The effect of levodopa on saccades – Oxford Quantification in Parkinsonism Study. Parkinsonism Relat Disord, 68:49-56.
2019 Nachev P, Kennard C, Husain M. The neural basis of meta-volition. Comm Biol
Mar 14;2:101. doi: 10.1038/s42003-019-0346-1
2019 McKee JB, Cottriall CL, Elston J, Epps S, Evangelou N, Gerry S, Kennard C, Kong Y, Koelewyn A, Kueker W, Leite MI, Palace J, Craner M. Amiloride does not protect retinal nerve fibre layer thickness in optic neuritis in a phase 2 randomised controlled trial. Mult Scler 25: 246-255
2020 Miller T, Chang T, Aimola A, Johnsson M, Irani S, Husain M, Ng T, Jacobs S, Maddison P, Kennard C, Gowland P, Rosenthal C. Human hippocampal CA3 damage disrupts both recent and remote episodic memories. eLife Jan 24;9:e41836.
2024 Miller T, Chang T, Aimola A, Johnsson M, Irani S, Husain M, Ng T, Jacobs S, Maddison P, Kennard C, Gowland P, Rosenthal C. Differential effects of bilateral hippocampal CA3 damage on the implicit learning and recognition of complex event sequences. Cognit Neurosci (in press)

Contact Details

Professor Christopher Kennard PhD, FRCP, FMedSci
Emeritus Professor of Clinical Neurology,
Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences,
University of Oxford Level 6,
West Wing John Radcliffe Hospital,
Headley Way,
Headington,
Oxford, OX3 9DU

Email: chris.kennard@ndcn.ox.ac.uk

Link

https://www.ndcn.ox.ac.uk/team/christopher-kennard