Clinical
Neuropsychology Service
- Northwestern Medical Faculty
Foundation
- Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Outpatient:
Cognitive/Behavioral Neurology Center
675 N. St. Clair, Galter 20-100
Chicago, IL 60611
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Inpatient:
Department of Psychiatry
Inpatient Neuropsychology Service
446 E. Ontario, Suite 7-100
Chicago, IL 60611
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Faculty:
- Sandy
Weintraub, PhD, ABPP
- Robert Hanlon,
PhD, ABPP
- Nancy Johnson,
PhD, ABPP
- Brenda Hanna-Pladdy, PhD
The Clinical
Neuropsychology Service evaluates and treats patients with
neurobehavioral disorders in the following areas:
- DementiaTraumatic Brain InjuryBrain TumorEpilepsyAdult Residua of
Learning DisordersMental State Changes
in Degenerative Neuromuscular DiseasesPsychiatric DisordersPostconcussive
SyndromeStrokeCerebral
Aneurysm/MalformationCardiovascular DiseaseAdult Attention
Deficit Disorder
- Forensic Cases
Neuropsychological
Evaluations provide:
- objective psychometric
data regarding memory, attention, perception, language,
reasoning, judgement, executive functions, emotional
status, and personalityrecommendations for
treatment, patient and caregiver/family education,
management, vocational rehabilitation, referral on
community resources
- formulation and
interpretation to assist in diagnosis and in making
determinations of:
- level
and nature of cognitive/behavioral and functional
disabilitymental
competencerehabilitation
needssupervision
and assisted living needsvocational
potential and capacity to return to workeducational
potentialeffects
of medication on cognitive/behavioral status
- recovery
and outcome following surgery
Sandra
Weintraub, PhD and Nancy Johnson,
PhD specialize in dementias of all
causes, strokes and adult residua of developmental disorders, age-related memory loss.
Robert
Hanlon, PhD specializes in traumatic brain injury, brain tumors, dementia, ADD, and forensic cases.