Dr. Linley Denson

Room 516, Hughes Building Phone +61 (08) 8303 4128 Fax +61 (08) 8303 3770 linley.denson@adelaide.edu.au

Program Coordinator Master of Psychology (Clinical) Semester 1

 

Area of Research

Clinical Neuropsychology

Developmental Psychology

 

Senior Appointments and Memberships

Member of Health, Disability and Lifespan Development Centre

Member of Brain and Cognition Centre

Registered Psychologist ( South Australia)

The Australian Psychological Society (SA Branch Committee Member)

APS College of Clinical Psychologists

APS College of Clinical Neuropsychologists (SA Section Treasurer)

APS College of Forensic Psychologists

APS Psychology and Ageing Interest Group.

The International Neuropsychological Society

The British Psychological Society

Australian Association for Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology & Law.

University of Adelaide Healthy Ageing Research Cluster (HARC)

 

Awards

The Shell Prize for Applied Psychology, 1985, the University of Adelaide.

 

Psychology Research Interests

Health outcomes

Health service usage

Values and long-term care decision-making for frail elderly people.

The impact of chronic illness on cognitive functioning.

Mental capacity to consent to research and treatment.

 

Recent Key Publications

Hay, P.J., Denson, L.A, van Hoof M, & Blumenfeld N., (2002). The neuropsychiatry of carbon monoxide poisoning in attempted suicide: A prospective controlled study. Psychosomatic Medicine , 53, 699-708.

Warren, J.D., Smith, H.B., Denson, L.A., & Waddy, H.M. (2000). Expressive language disorder after infarction of left lentiform nucleus. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience. 7 (5), 456-458.

Denson, L.A. & Hay, P.J. (1999). Hyperbaric or normobaric oxygen for acute carbon monoxide poisoning: a randomised controlled clinical trial. Was the neuropsychological testing appropriate? Medical Journal of Australia, 170 (11), 563.