Neuropsychology Program

We see children and teens of all ages, as well as some adults with developmental or medical disorders dating from childhood.

We assess patients to:

1. Establish the presence of, or rule out, brain damage, brain disease or a developmental abnormality under the following circumstances:
   • seizure disorder
   • brain tumor
   • cerebrovascular disease
   • congenital or developmental disorders, such as spina bifida
   • central nervous system infections, such as herpes encephalitis and HIV infection
   • exposure to agents known to be associated with brain dysfunction, such as lead
   • head injury
   • hypoxic episode (lack of oxygen to brain)
   • metabolic encephalopathy (associated with liver or kidney disease)
   • prematurity
   • treated leukemia
   • other diseases affecting the brain

2. Determine the clinical and functional significance of a brain abnormality

3. Identify areas of neurobehavioral dysfunction, as part of a medically necessary evaluation. These areas of functioning include:
   • academic skills
   • arousal
   • attentional functioning
   • auditory and visual perceptual abilities
   • communication, speech and language abilities
   • executive control processes (organization, reasoning, problem solving, behavioral regulation)
   • gross and fine motor strengths, persistences, planning and sequencing abilities
   • sensory abilities
   • social and emotional information processing abilities
   • verbal and non-verbal memory
   • visual/spatial cognition

4. Provide a diagnosis after reviewing a range of similar neurological/psychological disorders

5. Come up with an organic or medical basis for neurological dysfunction

6. Evaluate and document changes in patients' functioning over time

7. Determine a prognosis for specific disorders related to brain functioning

8. Assess failure to respond to treatment when a neuropsychological issue may be the primary underlying cause