Conditions Treated
At East End Neuropsych, we specialize in treating patients who are facing a variety of symptoms and life changes. Please see below for our main areas of practice.
Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer’s disease is an irreversible, progressive brain disorder that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills, and, eventually, the ability to carry out the simplest tasks. In most people with Alzheimer’s, symptoms first appear in their mid-60s. Estimates vary, but experts suggest that more than 5.5 million Americans, most of them age 65 or older, may have dementia caused by Alzheimer’s.
Dementia
Dementia is not a specific disease. It's an overall term that describes a group of symptoms associated with a decline in memory or other thinking skills severe enough to reduce a person's ability to perform everyday activities. There are many causes for this and dementia is used as an umbrella term.
Depressive Disorders
Depressive disorders are characterized by sadness severe enough or persistent enough to interfere with function and often by decreased interest or pleasure in activities. Exact cause is unknown but probably involves heredity, changes in neurotransmitter levels, altered neuroendocrine function, and psychosocial factors.
Memory Disorders
When memory loss interferes with your work, social activities and daily tasks, you may need medical care. It may be due to many conditions such as small strokes in the brain, diabetes, high blood pressure, nutritional deficiencies, reactions to medications and alcoholism. A comprehensive evaluation can help you understand the factors or conditions causing your memory loss.
Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a nervous system disease that affects your brain and spinal cord. It damages the myelin sheath, the material that surrounds and protects your nerve cells. This damage slows down or blocks messages between your brain and your body, leading to the symptoms of MS.
Parkinson's Disease
Parkinson’s disease (PD) impacts people in different ways. Not everyone will experience all the symptoms of Parkinson’s, and if they do, they won’t necessarily experience them in quite the same order or at the same intensity. There are typical patterns of progression in Parkinson’s disease that are defined in stages. Parkinsons effects not only movement but cognition and mood.
Persistent Anxiety
Examples of anxiety disorders include panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Symptoms include stress that's out of proportion to the impact of the event, inability to set aside a worry, and restlessness. Treatment includes counseling or medications, including antidepressants.
Sleep Disorders
Insomnia - being unable to fall asleep and stay asleep. Sleep apnea - a breathing disorder in which you stop breathing for 10 seconds or more during sleep. Restless leg syndrome (RLS) - a tingling or prickly sensation in your legs, along with a powerful urge to move them.
Somatic Pain treatment
Somatic pain is a type of idiopathic pain derived without an acute injury. It is pain that is reported but can not be measured or verified through clinical testing. Cognition and Dementia play a very large role in Somatic Pain and its’ managment. Many times patients come to us after very extensive medical work up where no know etiology is found.
Vascular Dementia
Vascular dementia is a general term describing problems with reasoning, planning, judgment, memory and other thought processes caused by brain damage from impaired blood flow to your brain. You can develop vascular dementia after a stroke blocks an artery in your brain, but strokes don't always causevascular dementia.