What is Neuropsychology?
Neuropsychology is the branch of psychology which addresses the link between brain and behaviour. Neuropsychological assessments are an objective way of quantifying and characterising the cognitive, behavioural and emotional sequelae of the changes in brain function that can occur after damage or with disease affecting the brain. In addition to assessment, clinical neuropsychologists are in an excellent position to educate, advise and offer treatment to patients and their families to help them understand and adapt to the changes that can result from brain damage.
About Dr Bunnage
Dr Bunnage is an Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist specialising in adult neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation. After completing his first degree in Psychology at the University of Bristol he went to Melbourne University, Australia, to train in Clinical Neuropsychology. He has been a Clinical Neuropsychologist at Frenchay Hospital since 2002 and became Consultant in 2007. Currently he divides his time between his NHS work (Frenchay Hospital), research and teaching (University of Bristol), and private practice (www.npsych.co.uk). He is interested in all aspects of adult clinical neuropsychology but especially the validity of neuropsychological assessment (particular related to psychometrics and frontal lobe/frontal circuit function, the evaluation of the neuropsychological consequences of brain injury and novel neurosurgical interventions, neuroimaging, the neuropsychological aspects of Parkinson’s disease and related basal-ganglia disorders, rehabilitation and neuro-regeneration / repair.
Dr Bunnage helped to establish the MSc in Applied Neuropsychology at the University of Bristol and continues to regularly contribute to teaching on this course.
Dr Bunnage is a Chartered Psychologist (C.Psychol) and Full Practictioner Member of the Division of Neuropsychology of the British Psychological Society. He is a member of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies. He is also an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Bristol.
BCCN
The Bristol Centre for Clinical Neuropsychology, is a collaborative research forum in neuropsychology between the Department of Neuropsychology, Frenchay Hospital and the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol.
Copyright Martin Bunnage 2008