The service I provide is primarily neuropsychological evaluation. However, the following are descriptions of diagnoses that we can evaluate for. A neuropsychological evaluation offers comprehensive understanding of an individual’s cognitive, emotional, and behavioral functioning, helping to optimize their quality of life, and maximize their potential for recovery and adaptation.
Clinical Neuropsychology is “a specialty of clinical psychology that represents the applied practice of neuropsychology and is concerned with assessment of and rehabilitation from brain injury that impairs an individual’s ability to function.” (APA, https://dictionary.apa.org/clinical-neuropsychology)
Neuropsychologists are trained to evaluate how illnesses, injuries, and neurodevelopmental conditions affect an individual’s thinking processes including attention, memory, verbal skills, executive function, and emotional functioning. A neuropsychological evaluation is different from neuroimaging such as CT or MRI scans, which show the structure of the brain but not how the brain performs on certain functions (i.e., memory). The goal of Cadence Neuropsychological Services is to understand how the patient’s conditions impact their functioning, help identify the individual’s cognitive strengths and weaknesses, and utilize results from the evaluation to develop treatment recommendations to optimize the quality of life, and maximize the individual’s potential for recovery and adaptation. The following is a list of conditions patients may benefit from a neuropsychological evaluation: