Neuro Assessment Center provides comprehensive neuropsychological assessment in Los Angeles for adolescents and adults with complex cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and diagnostic concerns. Dr. Daniel Hai, PsyD, specializes in evaluations that clarify what is actually driving the presentation when the picture is layered, high stakes, or difficult to untangle.
What This Work Is For
Many clients arrive after years of partial explanations, conflicting opinions, or treatment approaches that never fully accounted for the complete picture. They have been evaluated, treated, or labeled without arriving at a clear understanding of what is actually driving their difficulties.
The referral questions here tend to be specific. Does this look like ADHD, autism, or something else? How much of this is trauma versus executive dysfunction? Why has treatment not fully helped? What is the best explanation for this presentation, and what should happen next?
The Core Clinical Problem
Many presentations are misread — not because the clinician is wrong, but because the picture is incomplete.
Executive dysfunction gets framed as avoidance. Low processing speed gets framed as resistance. Poor working memory gets framed as lack of engagement. Rigid thinking gets framed as defensiveness.
The same behavior looks different depending on whether you are reading it as intention or as capacity. A client may be entirely sincere and still unable to execute. High intelligence, insight, and strong verbal presentation do not always translate into stable day-to-day functioning.
This is the question neuropsychological assessment is built to answer: not why the client is not changing, but what the client is actually able to do right now.
How the Work Is Done
Evaluations at Neuro Assessment Center are function-first — the goal is not simply to assign a diagnosis, but to clarify how cognitive, emotional, and personality-based patterns are affecting real-world performance. The battery is individualized to the referral question. The report is designed to be useful to the people who need to act on it.
Each evaluation includes a detailed clinical interview, customized testing battery, interpretation of findings, feedback session, and a structured written report. When clinically appropriate, collateral interviews and record review are incorporated to ensure the evaluation reflects the full picture rather than a narrow snapshot.
Who Refers Here
Psychiatrists, therapists, treatment programs, physicians, attorneys, schools, families, and individuals come to Neuro Assessment Center when the case is not straightforward — when there is diagnostic uncertainty, treatment stall, conflicting impressions across providers, or a need for a more detailed level of clinical clarity.
This work is particularly well suited for situations where multiple conditions may be interacting at once, where the presentation is intense or atypical, or where the findings need to be clear enough to guide real-world decisions.
Conditions Commonly Assessed
ADHD and autism spectrum differentials. Executive dysfunction in high-functioning adults. Trauma and complex trauma. Mood, anxiety, and personality dynamics. Learning differences. Memory concerns and cognitive changes. Concussion and mild traumatic brain injury. Substance-related cognitive and behavioral complications. Complex cases involving more than one possible explanation.
Treatment
At Neuro Assessment Center, treatment is never one-size-fits-all. Dr. Hai draws from a range of evidence-based modalities — selected and combined based on who you are, how your mind works, and what you actually need. Whether you’re navigating emotional patterns, relationship dynamics, or something that’s never quite had a name, the right approach is the one built around you.
