Introducing
Dr Charles Malpas
Hello, I’m Charles, a Research Fellow and Research Stream Leader for Neurocognitive disorders and Epilepsy.

Dr Charles Malpas
Research Stream Leader (Neurocognitive Disorders & Epilepsy)
MPsych(ClinNeuro), Ph.D.(ClinNeuro), GradCertAppStats, GradCertUniTeach, MAPS, FCCN, CPsychol(UK), AFBPsP
a little bit about me
I am a research fellow in the Clinical Outcomes Research Unit (CORe) at the Department of Medicine, Royal Melbourne Hospital. My research at CORe covers the neurocognitive disorders and epilepsy, and involves the application of advanced statistical modelling to answer clinically relevant questions. I am particularly interested in the application of Bayesian methods to predict clinical outcomes.
I completed a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroimaging at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI), where I was supported by an NHMRC Peter Doherty Australian Biomedical Fellowship. Clinically, I am a board-endorsed neuropsychologist (MAPS FCCN), currently working in the Comprehensive Epilepsy Program at The Alfred Hospital and in private practice. I am also a chartered psychologist in the UK (CPsychol) and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (AFBPsP).
Publications
- Determinants of therapeutic lag in multiple sclerosis.
- Effect of Disease Modifying Therapy on Disability in Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis Over 15 Years.
- Adverse events related to antiepileptic drugs.
- Cognitive profiles in patients with epileptic and nonepileptic seizures evaluated using a brief cognitive assessment tool.
- A study protocol for a phase II randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of sodium selenate as a disease-modifying treatment for behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia.
- Development and validation of a screening questionnaire for psychogenic nonepileptic seizures.
- Reply: Aggressive multiple sclerosis - a matter of measurement and timing.
- Burnout and psychological distress amongst Australian healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Treatment response score to glatiramer acetate or interferon beta-1a.
- Correction to: Serum microRNA is a biomarker for post-operative monitoring in glioma.
- Delay from treatment start to full effect of immunotherapies for multiple sclerosis.
- Longitudinal patterns of white matter fibre density and morphology in children are associated with age and pubertal stage.
- Serum microRNA is a biomarker for post-operative monitoring in glioma.
- Longitudinal Trajectories of Sustained Attention Development in Children and Adolescents with ADHD.
- Virtual Histology of Cortical Thickness and Shared Neurobiology in 6 Psychiatric Disorders.
- Time to diagnosis in younger-onset dementia and the impact of a specialist diagnostic service.
- Association of Sustained Immunotherapy With Disability Outcomes in Patients With Active Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis.
- Mortality in patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures.
- Subcortical Brain Volume, Regional Cortical Thickness, and Cortical Surface Area Across Disorders: Findings From the ENIGMA ADHD, ASD, and OCD Working Groups.
- Disability outcomes of early cerebellar and brainstem symptoms in multiple sclerosis.
- The neuropsychological spectrum of anti-LGI1 antibody mediated autoimmune encephalitis.
- Early clinical markers of aggressive multiple sclerosis.
- Factors associated with subjective cognitive function in epilepsy and psychogenic non-epileptic seizures.
- The histopathological staging of tau, but not amyloid, corresponds to antemortem cognitive status, dementia stage, functional abilities, and neuropsychiatric symptoms.
- Timing of high-efficacy therapy for multiple sclerosis: a retrospective observational cohort study.
- Head Motion During MRI Predicted by out-of-Scanner Sustained Attention Performance in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.
- Antiepileptic drugs are not independently associated with cognitive dysfunction.
- Clinical and therapeutic predictors of disease outcomes in AQP4-IgG+ neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder.
- Psychometric properties of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale in an inpatient video-monitoring epilepsy cohort.
- Optic Radiation Tractography in Pediatric Brain Surgery Applications: A Reliability and Agreement Assessment of the Tractography Method.
- Distinct psychopathology profiles in patients with epileptic seizures compared to non-epileptic psychogenic seizures.
- Abbreviated assessment of psychopathology in patients with suspected seizure disorders.
- Personality profiles differ between patients with epileptic seizures and patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures.
- A pilot study of the utility of cerebrospinal fluid neurofilament light chain in differentiating neurodegenerative from psychiatric disorders: A 'C-reactive protein' for psychiatrists and neurologists?
- Resting-state functional connectivity, cognition, and fatigue in response to cognitive exertion: a novel study in adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome.
- Brain Imaging of the Cortex in ADHD: A Coordinated Analysis of Large-Scale Clinical and Population-Based Samples.
- A network analysis approach to ADHD symptoms: More than the sum of its parts.
- Metabolic patterns and seizure outcomes following anterior temporal lobectomy.
- MRI correlates of general intelligence in neurotypical adults.
- Tau and Amyloid-β Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers have Differential Relationships with Cognition in Mild Cognitive Impairment.
- Short-term white matter alterations in Alzheimer's disease characterized by diffusion tensor imaging.
- Contralesional thalamic surface atrophy and functional disconnection 3 months after ischemic stroke.
- Semi-automated hippocampal segmentation in people with cognitive impairment using an age appropriate template for registration.
- Longitudinal Partial Volume Correction in 2-[18F]-Fluoro-2-Deoxy-D-Glucose Positron Emission Tomography Studies of Alzheimer Disease.
- Multimodal Structural Neuroimaging Markers of Brain Development and ADHD Symptoms.
- A Phase IIa Randomized Control Trial of VEL015 (Sodium Selenate) in Mild-Moderate Alzheimer's Disease.
- Recovery of White Matter following Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury Depends on Injury Severity.
- Cortical morphometry in attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder: Contribution of thickness and surface area to volume.
- Structural neuroimaging correlates of cognitive status in older adults: A person-oriented approach.
- Differential Functional Connectivity Correlates of Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers in Dementia of the Alzheimer's Type.