Neuropsychological Testing and Evaluation Center

The Mount Sinai Neuropsychological Testing and Evaluation Center provides diagnostic evaluations for a variety of neuropsychological, cognitive, attention, learning, educational, and personality concerns.

About Us

The Neuropsychological Testing and Evaluation Center in the Department of Psychiatry provides diagnostic evaluations for a variety of neuropsychological, cognitive, attention, learning, educational, and personality concerns.

Our staff of expert licensed neuropsychologists perform comprehensive evaluations of patients of all ages to assess the range of cognitive, educational, and emotional functioning.

Our Services

Specialized clinical assessment services include:

• Memory evaluations
• Dementia
• Baseline cognitive functioning
• Cognitive disorder in psychiatric conditions
• Cognitive changes following medical illness or surgery
• Cognitive changes due to substance abuse
• Traumatic brain injury
• Language disturbance
• Learning disability
• Attention deficit disorder
• Competency/Capacity
• Asperger’s disorder
• HIV-associated dementia complex
• Cerebrovascular disorder
• Neurotoxin exposure
• Other neurological and psychiatric conditions

What is Neuropsychological Testing?
A neuropsychological evaluation includes an interview with the neuropsychologist and a comprehensive battery of standardized paper and pencil tests of attention, concentration, memory, language, reasoning, and learning strengths and weaknesses.

The tests also include measures of intellectual functioning and behavior as well as instruments to assess mood, behavior and stress levels. These tests result in a thorough cognitive and behavioral profile which provides the referring doctor with objective information about the patient’s
functioning in terms of specific issues that may benefit from intervention.

Each testing is personalized depending on the reason for referral. Specific measures may vary according to the patient’s age, symptoms, and educational background. Following the interview and the testing, which typically takes 3-6 hours, a full written report, complete with detailed recommendations, is provided to the referring doctor.

Specialized forensic services available:

• Assessment of psychological and cognitive factors resulting from an injury or condition
• Assessment of disability
• Competency/Capacity

Referrals

Referring professionals, self-referred patients, and agencies are provided with timely detailed feedback, including a written report outlining findings, treatment recommendations, referral resources, and follow-up consultation.

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Our Team

Karen Dahlman, PhD
Co-Director, Neuropsychological Testing and Evaluation Center
Dr. Dahlman is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Neuropsychology Training (1995-present) in the Department of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Me dicine. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the New School for Social Research (1995). She is an accomplished clinician and administrator of neuropsychological services and the director of a large and successful training program in neuropsychology. Dr. Dahlman founded the Psychological Services Clinic, in which she is currently developing a large database that is now being used for analyses of neuropsychological deficits in early dementia. This data has been used to describe discreet neuropsychological function such as fluency (Dahlman, 1997).

As Co-Director of the Neuropsychological Testing and Evaluation Center, she provides neuropsychological assessment for memory disorders, teaches " Introduction to Neuropsychological Assessment in Psychiatry and Geriatric Psychiatry," and serves on the Training Grant Advisory Committee at Bronx Veteran's Administration Me dical Center (2002-present). She currently receives research support from Mount Sinai's ADRC (Alzheimer's Disease Research Center) and the ADCS Project (Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study Site) on which she is PI for instrument development. In addition she has recently taken over activities as a center neuropsychologist on a multicentered trial of hormonal effects on memory and cognition (R01-AG15922). In this role she is supervising the administration and interpretation of neuropsychological data.

Her research includes: immune inflammatory responses in depression; neurocognitive functioning and disease; memory disorders; Alzheimer's disease and preclinical neuropsychological markers. Evidence of her commitment to research can be seen in her participation in several data based abstracts, presentations and manuscripts submitted and in preparation. For example, she described cognitive functioning in first psychosis based on data collected from clinical trial population. An expansion of this abstract has just been accepted for publication. She described the cognitive and affective disturbances in AD patients using data from a longitudinal data base of elders followed in a program project (P01-AG02219). A full manuscript is in preparation. Dr. Dahlman has also reported on the cognitive comparisons of traumatic brain injury and dementia that integrated data from 2 independent projects. She has also described in two abstracts the cognitive traits that predict dementia onset (2002; 2003) and this work has been expanded into a full manuscript now under review. Her new research focuses on biological mediators and neuroimaging associated with neurocognitive and psychiatric disorders.

Jane Martin, PhD
Co-Director, Neuropsychological Testing and Evaluation Center
Dr. Martin is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai Medical Center. She is the Co-Director of the Neuropsychology Testing and Evaluation Center and the Neuropsychology Training Program in Psychiatry. She received her Doctorate in Psychology from New York University. Her research interests include healthy aging in the elderly, and women’s cognitive changes throughout the lifespan.

Dr. Martin is a founder of the Women’s Initiative at Mount Sinai, an interdivisional effort that links programs and practitioners specializing in issues pertaining to women’s health. She teaches in the Memory Enhancement Program, a wellness program for older adults, and also maintains a neuropsychological evaluation and psychotherapy practice.

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Other resources

At Mount Sinai

Department of Psychiatry

Financial Information

The Neuropsychological Testing and Evaluation Center is a fee-for-service clinical program. Personal checks are accepted.

We accept Medicare Part B.

In addition, we facilitate all other insurance claims.


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Contact Us

Neuropsychological Testing and Evaluation Center Department of Psychiatry
One Gustave L. Levy Place
New York, NY 10029
212-241-8518

For more information or to make an appointment, please call: 212-241-8518

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