Neuropsychological Testing

Neuropsychological testing is a comprehensive procedure that measures and identifies the interaction between cognition, processing capacities, and psychological functioning and their impact on academic and daily behavior. This sort of comprehensive testing is recommended for cases in which a detailed but general overview of functioning is requested. Neuropsychological testing provides quantifiable data about the following mental functions:

• Short-term and long-term memory,
• Intelligence,
• Problem-solving and conceptualizing,
• Ability to learn new skills and solve problems,
• Attention, concentration, and distractibility,
• Logical and abstract reasoning functions,
• Ability to understand and express language,
• Visual-spatial organization and Visual-motor coordination,
• Planning, synthesizing and organizing abilities,
• Functional impacts on learning and information recall,
• Academic achievement,
• Impact on the way a person thinks and feels as a result of the way their brain uses information.

A neuropsychological evaluation will serve to confirm or clarify diagnoses such as dementing conditions (e.g., Alzheimer’s), developmental learning disabilities, attention/executive functioning disorders, developmental disabilities, and the effects of toxic chemicals or chronic substance abuse, to name but a few.