Neuropsychology

The UNC Neuropsychology Service emphasizes comprehensive neuropsychological assessment and intervention services with outpatients suffering from neurodevelopmental, neurodegenerative, and acquired disorders of brain function. Neuropsychological evaluations are used in determining and outlining both subtle and more severe neurocognitive deficits among patients with epilepsy cerebrovascular conditions, multiple sclerosis, HIV, hydrocephalus, traumatic brain injury, neurotoxic exposure, and brain tumors. The neuropsychological evaluation is frequently a part of the overall neurodiagnostic assessment, which includes other neurodiagnostic techniques such as MRI, CT, SPECT, and EEG.

The neuropsychological evaluations are performed by qualified neuropsychologists who have undergone specialized education and intensive training in the clinical neurosciences, including the relationship between behavioral functioning and neuroanatomy, neurology, and neurophysiology.

The main members of the UNC Neuropsychological Service are:

Kevin R. Robertson, Ph.D.: Dr. Robertson, Director of Neuropsychology, has an international reputation in the neurocognitive effects of HIV. He is actively involved as Principal Investigator overseeing a multicenter International study evaluating the burden of HIV Neurological disease in Third World countries, with twelve clinic sites in Sub Saharan Africa, India, the Caribbean, Thailand, Brazil and Peru.