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About Lorryn
Lorryn is an endorsed Clinical Psychologist & Clinical Neuropsychologist with the Psychology Board of Australia, and is a Member of the Australian Psychological Society (APS) and Fellow of the APS College of Clinical Neuropsychologists.
She has worked in both the private and public sectors, and has had experience within tertiary hospital neurology departments, memory clinics, and rehabilitation wards as well as community psychiatric services. She was previously employed as a Senior Clinical Neuropsychologist within the Mater Hospital Centre for Neurosciences, where she had a focus on pre and post surgical assessments for treatment-refractory epilepsy.
Lorryn has worked as a Psychologist, with a focus on and passion for neurocognitive assessments, for the past 10 years.
Lorryn has experience and strong interests in the provision of Neuropsychological Assessment for adolescents and adults for the purposes of diagnostic clarification, rehabilitation/ treatment planning, access to support services (e.g. NDIS, DSP), and determining decision-making capacity. She has experience in Neuropsychological Assessment for a range of conditions, including traumatic brain injuries and concussions, dementia and other neurodegenerative conditions, epilepsy, stroke and vascular disease, tumours, inflammatory conditions such as Multiple Sclerosis and encephalitis, neurodevelopmental conditions, and psychiatric disorders. Lorryn is also a Clinical Psychologist and has experience in the treatment of cognitive, emotional, and behavioural symptoms of neurological and neurodevelopmental conditions.
Lorryn also has research interests and has co-authored several publications on the assessment of Post-Traumatic Amnesia (PTA) following Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), and in the epilepsy field.
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Professional Background
Qualifications
Bachelor of Psychology (Honours), James Cook University
Master of Clinical Psychology, James Cook University
Graduate Diploma in Psychological Practice (Clinical Neuropsychology), The University of Queensland
Registrations
Registration as a Psychologist with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
Endorsed as a Clinical Neuropsychologist & Clinical Psychologist with AHPRA
Registered Supervisor (AHPRA) through the Supervisor Training and Accreditation Program (STAP)
Member of the Australian Psychological Society (MAPS)
Fellow of the College of Clinical Neuropsychologists (CCN)
Publications
2018
Marshman, L. A. G., Hennessy, M., Delle Baite, L., & Britton, G. (2018). Utility of retrograde amnesia assessment alone, compared with anterograde amnesia assessment in determining recovery after traumatic brain injury: Prospective cohort study. World Neurosurgery, 110, e830-e834.
2020
Hennessy, M. J., Marshman, L. A. G., Delle Baite, L., & McLellan, J. (2020). Optimizing and simplifying post-traumatic amnesia testing after moderate-severe traumatic brain injury despite common confounders in routine practice. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, 81, 37-42.
2021
Hennessy, M. J., Delle Baite, L., & Marshman, L. A. G. (2021). More than amnesia: Prospective cohort study of an integrated novel assessment of the cognitive and behavioural features of PTA. Brain Impairment, 1-18.
2023
Delle Baite LD, Harvey EE, Fong MWK, McGonigal A, Wilson SJ. Life following epilepsy surgery: Building a holistic framework for enhancing postsurgical recovery and rehabilitation. Epilepsia. 2023;00: 1–6.
