Mission
Our Mission
Optimizing brain function through comprehensive healthcare
Who we are
We are a multi-disciplinary healthcare team bridging across multiple brain-focused specialties, including:
neurology
psychiatry
neuropsychiatry
neuropsychology
neuro-nutrition
educational development
physical therapy
social work
patient care management
By bringing together these specialties into a single coherent team, our goal is to avoid fractionation of care, leverage therapeutic synergies to deliver more effective treatment, and thereby facilitate ambitiously optimizing functionality to maximum-possible potential, and sustaining optimal brain health over time.
What we do
A comprehensive evaluation of:
Cognition
executive function
attention
information processing
decision-making/judgment
language
memory
visual processing
mood regulation
sleep-wake cycle regulation
motor function
movement
coordination
dexterity
postural stability
gait
sensory function
medical systems
cardiovascular
respiratory
e.g., sleep-related function
gastrointestinal
other systems as relevant
2. Consequent comprehensive diagnostic understanding is then used to inventory goals of care consistent with patient/family prioritization.
3. We design a correspondingly comprehensive goal-focused treatment plan.
4. We then execute treatment plan by means of synergistically-coordinated multidisciplinary management to efficiently achieve identified goals of care.
5. Age range from adolescent to advanced elderly.
Indications for our approach
Using a fully integrated approach to brain and behavior, we focus on:
Optimizing cognitive proficiency (independent of any illness)
Protecting brain health across the lifespan
Innovating management of challenging/complex neurocognitive/neuropsychiatric syndromes
Syndromes we specialize in managing
Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI)
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD)
Fronto-Temporal Dementia (FTD)
Dementia with Lewy Bodies Disease (DLB)
Parkinson’s disease-related cognitive dysfunction
Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
Epilepsy-related cognitive dysfunction
Stroke-related cognitive dysfunction
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
Other neurologic disorder-related cognitive impairments (e.g., multiple sclerosis)
Advanced Diagnostic Methodology
Diagnostic assessments can include:
Neurologic examination
Comprehensive medical examination
Neuropsychiatric evaluation
Neuropsychological testing (paper/computerized measurements of cognitive and emotional function)
Structural and functional brain imaging (e.g., brain MRI scan, PET scan, amyloid PET scan)
Brain electrical function testing (electroencephalography (EEG))
Blood tests (to examine metabolic and nutritional evidence, and detect other treatable causes of cognitive symptoms and design neuroprotective regimens)
Genetic testing
Spinal fluid analysis