Weill Cornell Physicians

Neuropsychiatric Disorders/Payne Whitney Manhattan

The Neuropsychiatry Practice in Payne Whitney-Manhattan has services which include psychiatric evaluation and treatment of adult outpatients with a variety of neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders, including epilepsy, dementia, stroke, head injury, mental retardation, learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, AIDS, etc. Reasons for referral include:

Mood and anxiety disorders in the context of neurologic illness
Change in mental status
Behavioral disturbances
Problems coping with illness
Diagnostic uncertainty

Assessment of cognitive and emotional functioning of patients with psychiatric, neuropsychiatric and neurological disease. The comprehensive evaluation determines whether there is brain dysfunction and its effects on cognitive and emotional functioning.

The clinic provides state-of-the-art diagnostic evaluations for a wide variety of neuropsychiatric and suspected neurological conditions. Neurodevelopment, neuropsychological, and psychoeducational evaluations of children from birth through high school age are focuses of studies on neurologic functions of cognitive and learning abilities such as ADHD, memory executive functioning, psychiatric disorders such as autism, depression, and anxiety.

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