Jenni Ogden

Jennifer Ann Ogden is a New Zealand clinical neuropsychologist, and was an associate professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Auckland. She is a fiction and non-fiction author, and has been a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi since 1999.

Early life and education Ogden was born in Ashburton, and studied to be a vet at Massey University before switching to neuroscience.

Ogden had a one-year fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she became one of a small number of neuroscientists granted access to famous amnesiac Henry Molaison. Molaison had lost all memory during an operation to control epileptic seizures. Ogden ran the postgraduate clinical psychology programme at the University of Auckland, where she was an associate professor in the Department of Psychology. Later she retired to Great Barrier Island to write. which is used in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and is in second edition.

Selected publications