Dr Amy Scholes
Dr Amy Scholes BA Hons DPsych (Clin Neuro) MAPS CCN
Neuropsychologist
Dr Amy Scholes is a neuropsychologist with extensive experience across neuropsychiatry, aged psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry. She is currently the Senior Neuropsychologist at the Neuropsychiatry Unit, Royal Melbourne Hospital and Alfred Hospital Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service. She manages and coordinates the neuropsychology program at the
Neuropsychiatry Unit, Royal Melbourne Hospital. This role includes the provision of professional development programmes, telepsychiatry consultations, student training, and liaison with universities, psychology/psychiatric services. Dr Scholes completed her doctoral thesis examining the effectiveness of a self-monitoring/family counselling intervention for children with ADHD and their families. Her subsequent research has included studies into the health and coping strategies of parents of adolescents with cystic fibrosis, the patterns of psychotropic drug use in SRS residents, the cognitive outcomes of bitemporal versus bifrontal ECT, and working memory function in children with writing disorders. Dr Scholes is currently supervising a study of neuropsychological functioning in patients on chemotherapy and has played a lead role in authoring two booklets on younger onset dementia in collaboration with the Alzheimer’s Association.