Ted Bennett, Ph.D.

CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGIST

Dr. Bennett is a native of New Orleans, LA and an honors graduate of Jesuit High School. He graduated with honors from Louisiana State University, earning a BS in psychology along with minors in history and Latin. Dr. Bennett earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Mississippi in Oxford. He completed his internship at the Central Arkansas Veterans Hospital System in Little Rock, AR, where he specialized in clinical neuropsychology. After his doctoral training, Dr. Bennett completed a two-year specialty fellowship in neuropsychology at the Methodist Rehabilitation Center in Jackson, MS.

 Dr. Bennett has over twenty years of experience in assessing a broad variety of neuropsychological and mental health issues. He specializes in assessing dementia and other neurocognitive disorders (e.g., Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal dementia, vascular dementia and stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, etc.), traumatic brain injury and concussion,  psychoeducational issues (ADHD, learning disability, giftedness/IQ, testing accommodations), pre-surgical assessments (spinal cord stimulator, bariatric surgery, transplant surgery including heart, kidney, liver, lung, and stem cell), police fitness-for-duty evaluations, and specialized personality/psychopathology evaluations (PTSD, depression, generalized anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder). Dr. Bennett has published research in the areas of ecological validity of neuropsychological testing, assessment of effort in neuropsychological testing, assessment of functional abilities in dementia and brain injury, and psychotherapy with Veterans suffering from impaired awareness. He has won numerous awards in various positions throughout his career, including Clinician of the Year and Supervisor of the Year. He is also an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.

 Dr. Bennett is licensed in Mississippi and is now accepting new clients.