Welcome to my website...
I am a Board Certified Clinical Neuropsychologist and a Board Certified Clinical Health Psychologist (i.e., medical psychologist), who sees patients to evaluate and address cognitive, psychological and neurobehavioral issues caused by a variety of conditions:
- Complex memory loss problems/medical disorders & dementias
- Movement Disorders: Parkinson's disease and atypical Parkinson's disorders,
Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, Multiple Systems Atrophy, Huntington's disease
- Epilepsy and other seizure disorders
- Brain Tumors/cerebral neoplasms
- Fronto-temporal Diseases (Primary progressive aphasia, corticobasal ganglionic
degeneration [CBD or CBGD], semantic dementia
- Stroke and other cerebrovascular accidents (e.g., brain bleeds/ hemorrhage/
aneurysm)
- Effect of cardiovascular disease / heart attacks, diabetes, sleep disorders (apnea,
restless legs) on cognitive function
- Multiple sclerosis
- "Long-Covid-19," West Nile Virus and other infectious disease post-viral
syndrome cognitive changes and decline
- Metabolic and other encephalopathies (e.g., hepatic encephalopathy, anoxia,
viral meningitis or encephalitis, post-operative or post-chemotherapy cognitive
changes, etc.)
If you are unsure about whether to come in for a neuropsychological consultation and/or exam, please call our office and/or consult with your primary care or referring physician as to whether your evaluation is presently recommended. My nurse/practice manager, Rhea, will be able to guide you about whether I am the right doctor for your evaluation and/or care.
For reasons of space and comfort, we ask that patients come in with no more than two family members or close friends/caregivers unless special arrangements have been made with Rhea in advance.
NEW PRACTICE CONTACT INFORMATION: As of March 3, 2026, our office phone will be on and available for patient and other professional calls only from Mondays to Thursdays. Rhea and I -- we're a very small non-corporate-run practice -- are simply swamped with Insurance verification and other administrative business calls these days and need to be able to manage the people-part of our work more effectively by separating those two activities this way. We're very sorry not to be available by phone Fridays through Sundays, but appreciate your understanding. It's a 'new world' of insurer requirements (and nonsense, we know), and we want to be able to concentrate our 'people' work less fettered during the early part of the week.
CARE FOLLOWING YOUR EVALUATION
- Unlike many neuropsychologists practicing today, Dr. Schneiders feels simply reporting on a patient's neurocognitive or neuropsychological status is very often not sufficient care when people are faced with conditions that sometimes significantly and painfully affect their lives, their functioning, and their families. He sees his role as 1) Assessing a patient's brain function and making any appropriate clinical, neuropsychological diagnoses, 2) Seeing what lifestyle, health and/or clinical factors might be "tuned up" to improve cognitive and psychological function regardless of the primary diagnosis, and 3) Looking for ways to reduce risk factors which are present that might lead to serious health problems or cognitive disorders and decline in the future. For that reason, in addition to consultations and cognitive examinations, he is committed to offering on-going clinical and supportive care over time to his patients who wish and need it when appropriate.
DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION SURGERY PRE-OPERATIVE EVALUATIONS
For nearly two decades, Dr. Schneiders' practice has included evaluating patients in the process of considering Deep Brain Stimulation neurosurgery (DBS) for conditions such as medically refractory Parkinson's disease, Essential Tremor, and Dystonia.
EPILEPSY SURGERY EVALUATIONS
Beginning in 1992, Dr. Schneiders has evaluated patients who require pre-operative examinations to help determine operative safety, risk/benefit estimation, and neurosurgical/neuropsychological needs as well as their appropriateness for seizure surgery. He also spent more than 15 years in the operating room, mapping patients' brains while they were awake for their neurosurgical operations to ensure optimal outcomes in terms of speech, language and memory function following their resections.
PRACTICE LIMITATIONS
Dr. Schneiders' practice does not involve work with patients who have cognitive or other changes that have resulted directly or primarily from a traumatic brain injury (TBI), patients under the age of 18 years of age, patients with psychiatric emergencies (i.e., acutely suicidal or psychotic individuals), general psychotherapy patients, or persons who wish basic learning disability evaluations for school or education purposes only.
He does not do forensic evaluations (e.g., pure disability evaluations (i.e., examinations not for the purposes of clinical care), IMEs, legal competency evaluations, or court-ordered (e.g., custody) evaluations. Please ask if you are uncertain about your own situation or that of your family member.
At this time I do not provide evaluations for or care of US Immigration Service/Homeland Security agents (ICE). They may consult the AACN or CNS websites to find doctors willing and able to see them.
Please note that I practice neuropsychology, not neurology, medicine, general clinical psychology, or psychiatry.
PSYCHOTHERAPY & COUNSELING
While I no longer can provide general psychotherapy outside the realm of neurological and medical conditions, patients commonly ask me about obtaining such care. In that spirit, I am pleased to offer them my thoughts on that kind of clinical work and what I think important to know, and to ask potential psychotherapists when engaging in such treatment:
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