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Dougal Phillips is a senior clinical neuropsychologist based in Melbourne working in private practice and public health and is the director of PsyAx.
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Dougal has a Master of Psychology (Clinical Neuropsychology) from the University of Melbourne. He is fully endorsed as a clinical neuropsychologist by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency.
Dougal is a full member of the Australian Psychological Society and the College of Clinical Neuropsychologists. He is registered with Medicare, WorkSafe, the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA), and the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Dougal has a friendly, practical approach. His assessments are responsive and hypothesis-driven, and his feedback is clear, timely, and helpful. In addition to private practice, Dougal has extensive hospital-based experience working with patients under general medicine, aged care, psychiatry, acquired brain injury, stroke, neurology, cardiac rehabilitation, and neurorehabilitation. Dougal has experience completing medico-legal assessments for use in WorkCover, road injury, TAC, and insurance claims as well as assessments of decision making capacity. Click here to read more about Dougal Phillips Melbourne neuropsychologist. |
Experience
Melbourne neuropsychologist Dougal Phillips has conducted neuropsychological assessments and provided psychological counselling for hundreds of clients with a range of conditions including:
- Acquired brain injury (ABI)
- Alcohol-related brain injury
- Alzheimer's disease
- Amnesia
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Aneurysm
- Anxiety
- Aphasia
- Apraxia
- Asperger's syndrome
- Autism spectrum disorder
- Autoimmune encephalitis
- Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) / Adult ADHD
- Arteriovenous malformation (AVM)
- Benzodiazepine withdrawal disorder
- Bipolar disorder
- Borderline personality disorder (BPD)
- Brain tumours / brain cancer
- Diabetes
- Cerebrovascular disease
- Closed head injury
- Cognitive fatigue
- Communication disorder
- Concussion
- Confusion
- Conversion disorder
- Corticobasal degeneration
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
- Delirium
- Dementia
- Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB)
- Depression
- Depressive pseudodementia
- Dissociative amnesia
- Dissociative disorders
- Drug and alcohol abuse
- Encephalitis
- Epilepsy
- Executive dysfunction
- Extinction
- Factitious disorder
- Frontotemporal dementia
- Functional disorder
- Glioblastoma multiforme
- Head injury
- Health anxiety
- Heart attack
- Hepatic encephalopathy
- Herpes encephalitis
- High-functioning autism
- Hoarding
- Huntington's disease
- Hydrocephalus
- Hypoxic brain injury
- Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus
- Intellectual disability
- Korsakoff's syndrome
- Lacunar infarct
- Language disorder
- Learning disability / learning disorder
- Leukoencephalopathy
- Logopenic progressive aphasia
- Malingering
- Microvascular disease
- Mild cognitive impairment (MCI)
- Mitochondrial dementia
- Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) syndrome
- Mixed dementia
- Motor disorders
- Motor neuron disease
- Multiple sclerosis (MS)
- Multisystem atrophy
- Nonverbal learning disorder
- Normal pressure hydrocephalus
- Parkinson's disease
- Parkinson's plus syndromes
- Posterior cortical atrophy
- Post-concussional syndrome
- Post traumatic stress disorder
- Primary progressive aphasia
- Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML)
- Progressive non-fluent aphasia
- Progressive supranuclear palsy
- Prosopagnosia
- Psychosis
- Schizoaffective disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Semantic dementia
- Specific learning disability
- Spinocerebellar ataxia
- Stroke
- Subarachnoid haemorrhage
- Subcortical dementia
- Substance use disorder
- Systemic lupus erythmatosus (SLE)
- Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE)
- Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
- Vascular cognitive impairment
- Vascular dementia
- Verbal learning disorder
- Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome
- Wernicke's encephalopathy
- Younger onset dementia