Chris Butler

Clinical Lecturer in Medical Neurology

I studied medicine at the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh, and completed my training in general medicine in London, Lausanne and Oxford. Pursuing my long-standing interest in cognitive neurology, I obtained a three-year fellowship from the Patrick Berthoud Charitable Trust to work with Adam Zeman in Edinburgh on the TIME study. With him, I had the privilege of establishing by far the largest study to date on transient epileptic amnesia (TEA), recruiting and visiting 50 people from around the United Kingdom with this clinically important and theoretically informative condition. I subsequently held a post-doctoral scholarship at the Memory and Aging Center, University of California at San Francisco, where I gained clinical experience in behavioural neurology and learned techniques of functional brain imaging. I moved to Oxford in 2009 where I took up a post as Clinical Lecturer in Neurology. I have continued to work on investigating the clinical, neuropsychological and imaging characteristics of TEA and its associated forms of memory impairment.