10 Functional Neurologic Disorders Expert Witnesses Found

Alameda, California

Forensic Psychology, Neuropsychology - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Traumatic Brain Injury, Testamentary Capacity, Undue Influence, Personal Injury, Forensic Psychology, Neurology, Neuropsychology, Violence Risk, Mitigation, Resentencing, Sex Offenders, Employment Discrimination & Harassment, False Confession, Juvenile Evals

...Conducting evaluations in English and Spanish, our team includes experts board certified in neurology, forensic psychology, and rehabilitation neuropsychology. We are positioned to address the vast majority of forensic issues related to the brain, behavior, and psychological functioning....

Santa Monica, California

Neurology - Traumatic brian injury, functional MRI, posttraumatic encephalopathy, TBI, advanced MRI, general neurology, hospital neurology, fMRI, DTI

...Franc is a practicing neurologist with clinical experience and knowledge in traumatic brain injury and the use of advanced imaging to guide the diagnosis and treatment of neurological disorders. He has an active clinical program in treating patients and leads a team of neurologists and mental health providers in managing the constellation of symptoms seen in individuals with TBI, including headache, mood disorders, cognitive impairment, dizziness, chronic pain, and sleep disorders. He has been retained by plaintiff and defense attorneys to clarify the complexities of brain injury and is able to testify plainly about technical matters related to the diagnosis and treatment of such injuries. He is able to interrelate the neurological factors underlying brain injury, psychological conditions that complicate recovery from TBI, and neuroimaging findings to result in a complete medicolegal opinion. Dr....

San Francisco, California

Neuropsychiatry, Psychiatry - neuropsychiatry, psychiatric malpractice, personal injury, disability, PTSD, traumatic brain injury (TBI), testamentary capacity

...Lodhi is Board-Certified in General and Adult Psychiatry with an additional year of subspecialty training in Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry. His forensic practice focuses on the psychiatric impact of personal injury, abuse, competency, and testamentary capacity. He has extensive expertise in complex psychopharmacology as well as deprescribing. He has specific clinical expertise in the evaluation and treatment of functional neurological disorders (FND/conversion disorders) as well as Adult ADHD. In addition to his clinical and forensic work, Dr. Lodhi works with Physicians for Human Rights to assess kidnapping victims, human trafficking, undue influence, abuse, rape, and fear of imminent death.

Encino, California

Psychiatry, Addiction Psychiatry - IME, testamentary capacity, fitness for duty, capacity to refuse treatment, medical malpractice, suicide, negligence, psychiatrist malpractice, PTSD, emotional distress, psychiatric disability, emotional harm, wrongful termination, stalking, malingering, threat assessment, security clearance, trauma

...Steiner is dual-board certified in Adult Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and in Addiction Medicine by the American Board of Addiction Medicine. In addition to his private practice, Dr. Steiner is founder and director of Expedient Medicolegal Services (www.expevals.com), where he mentors a group of 40+ physicians in multiple medical specialties in their own medicolegal practices. In his current position, Dr. Steiner has provided critical review on thousands of medicolegal cases and is versed in all aspects of how to be an optimal expert witness. Dr. Steiner is published in the fields of health psychology, immunological function and its effects on mental disorders and addiction....

OAK PARK, Illinois

Neuropsychology, Forensic Psychology - Elder Competence, Guardianship, Brain Injury, Somatoform, Decisionmaking Capacity, Competence to stand trial, Fitness to stand trial, Not guilty by reason of insanity, Mitigation, IME, Malingering, Schizophrenia, PTSD, Workmen's Compensation, Intellectual Impairment, Dementia, Stroke, Competency

...I am experienced with disorders that are commonly the focus of litigation, such as dementia, brain injury, PTSD, psychotic spectrum disorders such as schizophrenia, and intellectual disability or autism. I also do extensive testing for malingering and functional neurological disorders. In addition to my forensic work, I run a private practice focusing on clinical evaluations, where I train postdoctoral residents. I have taught graduate students and lecture to both attorneys and clinicians. I regularly write for the Illinois Institute for Continued Legal Education and academic journals. My reports are based on objective, reliable information, using minimal jargon, and directly addressing the matter at hand.

Champaign, Illinois

Occupational Medicine, Disability Evaluation - DOT Driver Medical Fitness, Trucking & Bus Accidents, Motor Vehicle Accidents, Complex Disability Mgmt, FMCSA Medical Regulations, Occupational Medicine, Substance Abuse Counseling, Return-To-Work Evaluations, Fitness-for-Duty Evaluations, Life Care Planning, Medical Review Officer, FAA Examiner

...Experience in DOT driver medical fitness; trucking & bus accidents; motor vehicle accidents (kinematics of motor vehicle accidents); complex disability management; FMCSA medical regulations; substance abuse counseling; drug/alcohol testing; return-to-work evaluations; fitness-for-duty evaluations; life care planning; cumulative trauma disorders; upper extremity musculoskeletal and neurological disorders; delayed recovery and symptom magnification in work injury; chronic pain management; medical certification issues for aviation and trucking industry; traumatic brain injuries; obstructive sleep apnea (OSA); fatigue management; medical center occupational health issues; functional capacity evaluation (FCE) medical correlation assessments; reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD); fibromyalgia; myofascial pain syndrome; the aging worker; ergonomic on-site evaluations; health promotion and wellness; anti-aging medicine; foreign travel counseling; and healthy companies.

Needham, Massachusetts

Neuropsychology, Forensic Psychology - Child/Adult/Geriatric TBI, Lead Toxicity, Concussion, Dementia, Neurological Disorders, Toxic Exposure, IME's, Learning Disabilities, Personal Injury, ADHD, PDD, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Medical Malpractice, Plaintiff and Defense, Federal Cases, Memory Evaluations, Competency, Consultation

...He and his forensic neuropsychologists offer expert witness evaluations and consultations for both Plaintiff and Defense in the following areas: ● ADHD ● Autism Spectrum Disorder and neurodevelopmental disorders ● Competency (e.g. to stand trial, make financial decisions, perform essential job functions) ● Strokes, Dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type and Memory Disorders ● Encephalitis/Hydrocephalus ● Executive Dysfunction ● Fitness for Duty ● IME (Independent Medical Evaluations) ● Language Disorders ● Lead Toxicity/Exposu ● Learning Disabilities ● Malingering /Validity Testing ● Medical Malpractice ● Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) ● Neurodegenerative Disorders ● Neurodevelopment (e.g. birth-related trauma) ● Neurological Disorders ● Neuropsychological Sequelae of HIV ● Pediatric Neuropsychological Evaluation ● Personal Injury, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) ● Post Concussive Syndrome ● Psychological / Psychiatric Disorders ● Seizure Disorder ● Toxic Torts...

New Windsor, New York

Audiology, Noise - Tinnitus, Veterans' Claims and Appeals Hearing Loss & Tinnitus, Health and Wellness

Award-winning Audiologist with 40 years of experience dealing with neurological and cognitive disorders. I specialize in Tinnitus Evaluations and Treatments with specialty training and certification. I am a VA-trained Audiologist and I work closely with the NYS Division of Veterans' Services and Veteran Service Officers across NYS doing Veteran Claims and Appeals for Hearing Loss & Tinnitus. I have served as an Expert Witness in four Veterans' Hearing Loss and Tinnitus dealing with faulty earplugs as well as several Personal Injury cases dealing with Motor Vehicle Accidents and Wrongful Death in a Light Rail case dealing with ionsufficient signaling systems. My articles on TInnitus and Hearing loss have been published in the US and abroad. As an accomplished Musician, I have extensive knowledge of acoustics and noise and its effect on the auditory system....

Waynesville, North Carolina

Neuropsychology, Psychology - neuropsychological assessment, traumatic brain injury, stroke, dementia, PTSD, malingering, fitness for duty, return to work, return to play, competency, substance abuse, somatoform disorder, conversion disorder, functional neurological disorder

...He also provides evaluation of and expert testimony on mental health conditions including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)), conversion / functional neurological disorder, as well as malingering and factious disorder. He has worked with clients from early adolescence through late adulthood. For most of his career, Dr. Acheson was an educator, researcher, and clinician at Western Carolina University, Duke University Medical Center, Durham Veteran’s Hospital, and the University of NC School of Medicine. While at Duke he served as Lead Psychologist in the Duke Center for Psychiatry and Law. Dr. Acheson views his expert witness work as an opportunity to assist judges’, juries’, and attorneys’ understand how brain damage and dysfunction impacts a person’s behavior, cognition and emotion. His opinions are often sought to assist the trier of fact in determining responsibility in personal injury cases. Dr....

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Psychiatry, Forensic Psychiatry - Psychological Injury and Disability from Post-traumatic Stress (PTSD), Dissociative Identity, Dissociative Amnesia, Depersonalization, Derealization, Factitious, Personality Disorders (BPD), Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse, Sexual Offenders, Paraphilias, Hypnosis, Malingering, False Memory

...My particular expertise is in the evaluation of sexual violence, both in offenders and victims, which includes issues such as rape, molestation, child pornography, incest, adult sequelae of childhood sexual abuse, PTSD, dissociation, paraphilia, factitious, and personality disorders. My IMEs include objective tests that assess the conscious (i.e., malingering and factitious) and unconscious (i.e., severe trauma and dissociation) factors that may affect a client’s claims....