Jennifer Ann Ogden is a New Zealand clinical neuropsychologist, and was an associate professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Auckland.
11 Facts About Jenni Ogden
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Jenni Ogden is a fiction and non-fiction author, and has been a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Aparangi since 1999.
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Jenni Ogden has a PhD from the University of Auckland completed in 1983, titled Out of mind, out of sight: unilateral spatial disorders in brain-damaged patients, supervised by Michael Corballis.
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Jenni Ogden had a one-year fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she became one of a small number of neuroscientists granted access to famous amnesiac Henry Molaison.
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Jenni Ogden ran the postgraduate clinical psychology programme at the University of Auckland, where she was an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology.
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Jenni Ogden wrote a textbook about brain disorders, Fractured Minds: A Case-Study Approach to Clinical Neuropsychology, which is used in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and is in second edition.
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Jenni Ogden wrote a neuropsychology book aimed at the general reader, Trouble in Mind, about 14 patients, including Molaison.
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Jenni Ogden's book included the only known photo of Molaison, which was taken against MIT guidelines.
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Jenni Ogden has written three works on fiction on neurological themes.
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Jenni Ogden was awarded the Distinguished Career Award by the International Neuropsychological Society in 2015.
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Jenni Ogden was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Aparangi in 1999.