Neuropsychology Services

The page provides an overview of neuropsychology services for:

• Chronic Pain
  
• Brain Injury and Impairment
  
• Mental Illness

Chronic Pain: Neuropsychology Evaluations and File Reviews

For chronic pain patients, Dr. Barth’s evaluations and file reviews can help clarify issues such as:

• Diagnosis
  
• Causation (e.g., injury-relatedness, work-relatedness, etc.)
  
• Impairment
  
• Disability
  
• Prognosis
  
• Treatment planning
  
• Additional issues

Typical cases involve:

• CRPS: patients who are suspected to have developed complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS)
  
• “RSD”: patients who have been told that they have “reflex sympathetic dystrophy” (“RSD”)
  
• “Causalgia”: patients who have been told that they have developed “causalgia”
  
• Back pain: chronic back pain (including low back pain)
  
• Neck pain: patients with chronic neck pain
  
• Extremity pain: e.g., patients with chronic arm pain, chronic leg pain, etc.
  
• Headache: patients who have been told that they are experiencing posttraumatic headache, postconcussion headache, etc.
  
• Back surgery: patients who have been advised to consider back surgery
• Spinal cord stimulation: patients who have been advised to consider spinal cord stimulators
  
• “Pain pumps": patients who have been advised to consider a pain pump, an implanted medication pump, intrathecal pump, etc.
  
• Narcotics / Opioids: patients who have been advised to take narcotics (opioids) long-term
  
• Multidisciplinary Pain Programs: patients who have been advised to consider multidisciplinary pain programs (also called interdisciplinary pain programs)
  
• Pain management: patients who have been advised to consider working with a pain management specialist
  
• Fibromyalgia: patients who have been told that they have fibromyalgia
  
• Additional chronic pain concepts and issues

Read about Dr. Barth’s professional activities of greatest relevance to chronic pain.

Brain Injury and Brain Impairment: Neuropsychology Evaluations and File Reviews

For patients who are suspected of having a history of brain injury or brain impairment, Dr. Barth’s evaluations and file reviews can help clarify issues such as:

• Diagnosis
  
• Severity of injury
  
• Severity of impairment
  
• Confounding factors (non-injury-related issues that can cause the impairment to seem more severe than it actually is, and which are often overlooked)
  
• Disability
  
• Competence or competency
  
• Testamentary capacity
  
• Prognosis
  
• Treatment planning
  
• Rehabilitation
  
• Additional issues
  

Typical cases involve patients who have been given a diagnosis of, or who are suspected of warranting a diagnosis of:

• Brain injury
  
• Closed head injury
  
• Concussion
  
• Postconcussion syndrome (or “postconcussional syndrome”, “postconcussional disorder”, “postconcussion disorder”, "posttraumatic brain syndrome", etc.)
  
• Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (MTBI)
  
• Moderate traumatic brain injury (or moderate brain injury, moderate closed head injury, etc.)
  
• Severe traumatic brain injury (or severe brain injury, severe closed head injury, etc.)
  
• Dementia of the Alzheimer’s type (or Alzheimer’s disease)
  
• Dementia due to Stroke (or vascular dementia),
  
• Mental Retardation
  
• Learning disability (or learning disorder)
  
• Substance-induced cognitive impairment: alcohol-induced, drug-induced, Korsakoff's syndrome, etc.
  
• Encephalitis
  
• Meningitis
  
• Brain tumor
  
• Additional issues involving potential brain impairment

Read about Dr. Barth’s professional activities of greatest relevance to brain injury and impairment.

Mental Illness: Neuropsychology Evaluations and File Reviews

For patients who are experiencing mental illness, or who are suspected to be experiencing mental illness, Dr. Barth’s evaluations and file reviews can help clarify issues such as:

• Is the patient actually mentally ill?
  
• Diagnosis
  
• Causation (injury-relatedness, work-relatedness, event-relatedness, trauma-relatedness, etc.)
  
• Impairment
  
• Disability
  
• Competence or competency
  
• Testamentary capacity
  
• Prognosis
  
• Treatment planning
  
• Additional issues of relevance to mental illness

Typical cases involve patients who have been given a diagnosis of, or who are suspected of warranting a diagnosis of:

• Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
  
• Mood disorders: Major Depressive Disorder, Dysthymic Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, “depression”, “mania”, etc.
  
• Anxiety Disorders: Panic Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, “stress”, “anxiety”, posttraumatic stress disorder, etc.
  
• Adjustment Disorder
  
• Substance abuse, substance dependence: e.g., alcohol abuse, “alcoholism”, “addiction”, narcotic abuse, narcotic dependence, opioid abuse, opioid dependence, etc.
  
• Somatoform disorders: Somatization, conversion, pain disorder, etc.
  
• Personality disorders
  
• Additional forms of mental illness

Read about Dr. Barth’s professional activities of greatest relevance to mental illness.

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