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, Psy.D., specializes in evaluations that clarify what is actually driving the presentation when the picture is layered, high stakes, or difficult to untangle.
These assessments are designed for individuals, families, psychiatrists, therapists, treatment centers, physicians, attorneys, and care teams who need more than a surface level answer. Each evaluation is tailored to the referral question and translated into clear, practical recommendations that support treatment planning, family communication, academic or occupational decisions, and ongoing clinical care.
Neuropsychological evaluations are available in Encino and on site across Southern California.
Dr. Hai is known for a function-first approach that looks beyond labels and focuses on how cognitive and psychological patterns affect real life. His evaluations are designed not only to identify diagnoses when present, but to clarify what is actually interfering with functioning, relationships, decision making, treatment response, and quality of life.
This work is especially helpful for complex presentations involving trauma, addiction recovery, mood and personality dynamics, executive dysfunction, autism and ADHD differentials, and cases where several possible explanations may coexist. Evaluations are selective, individualized, and grounded in both clinical depth and practical relevance
Comprehensive Neuropsychological Assessments
Neuropsychological evaluations are designed to identify the cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and functional factors contributing to a person’s difficulties. Common referral concerns include ADHD, autism spectrum presentations, executive functioning problems, learning differences, trauma-related symptoms, mood instability, memory changes, substance-related complications, and the effects of concussion or brain injury.
Each assessment 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.
The Assessment Process
The process begins with a detailed intake and clinical interview to clarify the referral question, relevant history, and functional concerns. Based on that information, a customized assessment battery is developed. Testing is typically completed over a four to six hour session, although pacing can be adjusted when needed based on the individual and the complexity of the case.
After testing is completed, the data are scored, analyzed, and integrated with the clinical history and behavioral observations. Findings are then reviewed in a feedback session, where conclusions and recommendations are discussed in clear and practical language. A comprehensive written report follows, designed to support treatment planning and communication with relevant providers or systems when appropriate.
Who This Work Is For
Neuro Assessment Center works with adolescents and adults facing complicated or high impact questions about cognition, personality, emotional functioning, and daily performance. Some clients seek evaluation because they have never received a satisfying explanation for longstanding struggles. Others come after years of treatment that did not fully help, when there is concern that an important part of the picture has been missed.
Referrals often come from psychiatrists, therapists, treatment programs, families, schools, physicians, attorneys, and clients themselves when the case is not straightforward and a deeper level of diagnostic clarity is needed. 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.
Differential Diagnosis and Diagnostic Clarification
Many clients come in with overlapping symptoms, prior labels that never fully explained the picture, or treatment histories that created more confusion than clarity. These evaluations help distinguish conditions that may look similar on the surface but require very different treatment approaches, such as trauma versus autism, ADHD versus anxiety, mood disorder versus substance-related disruption, or personality dynamics versus neurocognitive decline.
Treatment-Facing Reports
Reports are designed to be useful, not merely descriptive. Findings are translated into recommendations that support admissions decisions, treatment planning, utilization documentation, family communication, educational support, occupational planning, and multidisciplinary coordination. The goal is not just to identify diagnoses when present, but to clarify what is interfering with stability, performance, treatment response, and day to day functioning.
Common Referral Questions
Clients and referral sources often come to Neuro Assessment Center with questions such as whether someone may have autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, executive dysfunction, trauma-related impairment, a mood or personality based issue, substance-related cognitive disruption, learning differences, or the lingering effects of concussion or other brain injury. Evaluations are also appropriate when treatment has stalled, when symptoms do not fit neatly into one category, or when there is disagreement about what is actually driving the presentation.
Conditions Commonly Assessed
Neuro Assessment Center frequently evaluates ADHD, autism spectrum presentations, executive functioning difficulties, learning disorders, trauma and complex trauma, mood disorders, anxiety, OCD-related symptoms, emotional dysregulation, dissociation, personality dynamics, substance-related cognitive and behavioral changes, memory concerns, concussion, mild traumatic brain injury, and complex cases involving more than one possible explanation.
