The Neuropsychology Service provides comprehensive assessment services for child, teenage, adult, and geriatric patients in whom impairments of cognitive, neuropsychiatric, or developmental functioning are evident or suspected. Our services include outpatient evaluation and inpatient consultation services.

Neuropsychological assessment involves a systematic evaluation of higher cognitive abilities such as intelligence, academic skill, memory, language, attention, problem solving ability, executive abilities and visual motor skills, as well as sensory/motor and personality/emotional functioning.

Adult Neuropsychology Clinic (912 S. Wood St. South Tower)

• Focuses on comprehensive evaluations for teenagers and adults. Referral questions focus on clarifying cognitive and psychological functioning, as well as assisting with differential diagnosis and treatment planning in adults with known or suspected brain dysfunction.

Pediatric Neuropsychology Clinic (912 S. Wood St. South Tower)

• Focuses on the comprehensive assessment of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults with a wide range of medical, neurodevelopmental, genetic, psychiatric, and learning disorders. Evaluation and treatment planning emphasize the integration of neurocognitive, social, emotional, and behavioral aspects of these disorders to help families better understand and manage complex presentations.

We also provide specialty Clinic services:

Adolescent Mood Disorders Clinic

• Focuses on evaluations in adolescence and young adulthood, where a mood disorder may be interfering with functional independence, including difficulty meeting educational and vocational goals.

National Football League (NFL) Evaluations

• Offers comprehensive neuropsychological assessments for the NFL Concussion Settlement Baseline Assessment Program (BAP) by BAP qualified providers.

Memory and Aging Clinic

• Focuses on evaluations in mid and late life;
• Referral questions focus on degenerative and reversible causes of cognitive problems in this age range;
• Specializes in co-morbid medical and emotional conditions that may also contribute to cognitive problems in the aging.

Multiple Sclerosis Clinic

• Provides brief as well as comprehensive cognitive and psychological assessments for the patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and offers treatment recommendations for improvement in everyday functioning.

Sickle Cell Clinic

• Focuses on the neurocognitive sequelae of stroke and silent infarct in individuals with Sickle Cell Disease. Provides comprehensive evaluations that examine cognitive, academic, and psychological functioning.

• Learn more about this clinical program at UI Health