Lynette Tippett

Tippett in 2023
Born
Lynette Joy Tippett
NationalityNew Zealand
Known forresearch on neurodegenerative disease
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Auckland
Thesis
  • Producing mental pictures: a study of visual-image generation processes in brain-lesioned patients (1991)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Pennsylvania
Carnegie Mellon University
University of Auckland
Websiteorcid.org/0000-0003-4592-6600

Lynette Joy Tippett ONZM is a New Zealand professor of psychology at the University of Auckland, specialising in neurodegenerative diseases.

Academic career

Tippett has a Master's degree in psychology, a Diploma in Clinical Psychology and a doctorate, all from the University of Auckland. Tippett completed her PhD titled Producing mental pictures: a study of visual-image generation processes in brain-lesioned patients in 1991.[1] Tippett then undertook postdoctoral training at the Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University.[2] Returning to New Zealand, she joined the faculty of the University of Auckland. She was promoted to full professor.[2] Tippett has taught neuropsychology for more than 30 years, and supervised more than 80 graduate students.[3] Tippett's research focuses on the psychosocial, emotional and cognitive effects of the brain changes that take place in neurodegenerative diseases, such as Huntington's disease, Alzheimer's, frontotemporal dementia and Parkinson’s disease, and also due to traumatic brain injury.[2]

Tippett is associate director of the Centre for Brain Research, national director of the Dementia Prevention Research Clinics, and co-director of the Auckland Dementia Prevention Research Clinic.[2] She is a member of the Alzheimer's New Zealand Clinical and Scientific Advisory Board.[2]

Awards and honours

In the 2023 King's Birthday and Coronation Honours, Tippett was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to neuropsychology and people with dementia.[3]

Selected works

References

  1. Tippett, Lynette J. (1991). Producing mental pictures: a study of visual-image generation processes in brain-lesioned patients (PhD thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 University of Auckland. "Profile: Lynne Tippett". profiles.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
  3. 1 2 "The King's Birthday and Coronation Honours List 2023 – Citations for Officers of the New Zealand Order of Merit | Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC)". www.dpmc.govt.nz. 5 June 2023. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
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