Dr. Shona Fraser is a clinical neuropsychologist. She utilises her neuroanatomy training to inform a unique approach to understanding the complex relationship between embodied mind and brain. She specialises in neuropsychological assessments across the lifespan, evaluating cognition, emotion, social interaction, behaviour and learning. Dr. Fraser focuses on evaluations of neurocognitive, personality, and emotional profiles.
Her background includes work in general hospitals and psychiatric departments, emphasizing the neuropsychologist's role in linking cognitive dysfunction to neuroanatomical structures for targeted rehabilitative interventions. Dr. Fraser's holistic neurocognitive interventions, incorporating assessment and psychotherapy, aim at managing patients effectively.
Dr. Fraser is an Honorary Academic at the University of the Witwatersrand, where she teaches Neuropsychology and Neuropsychological Assessment at various levels, and actively engages in research. She is passionate about early assessment and intervention for neurodevelopmental disorders, and supervises research conducted by centres for remedial education. Dr. Fraser regularly presents her clinical work and research in academic forums and collaborates on neuroscience research aat the Wits Neuroscience Research Lab.
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