The Neuro Diagnostic Program at Spring Mountain Treatment Center is targeted toward youth that are experiencing difficult out-of-control behavior problems triggered by a complex neurological disorder in their brain. Explosive rage behavior, poor impulse control, irritability problems, mood swings and poor judgment can be symptoms of a neuro psychiatric disorder in the adolescent.

Developmental brain impairments that are a result of fetal exposure to drugs or alcohol, lack of oxygen at birth (blue babies) or “shaken baby syndrome” can all produce neuro psychiatric disorders whose behavioral problems begin in early childhood and continue into the adolescent years.

Unfortunately, traditional psychiatric treatment has been ineffective in treating the adolescent with this emotional brain dysfunction. Typical medications used in treating other psychiatric disorders have had little or no benefit in this patient, because the patient has a short attention span and poor impulse control. Standard therapy and counseling have failed as well.

The method applied to neuro psychiatric patients at Spring Mountain Treatment Center has demonstrated a positive outcome after discharge by reducing violent behavior, impulsive episodes, runaway conduct, decreased re-hospitalizations and incarceration by an average of 85 to 90%. Continuing studies of neuro psychiatric treatment in short-term acute facilities will remain an on-going process.

A neuro psychiatric diagnosis of an adolescent patient depends upon assessment of brain function by multifaceted testing as well as a comprehensive psychological workup.
The program at Spring Mountain Treatment Center is a 14-day in-patient stay under the direction of the acute services department.

The diagnostic portion of the program consists of:

• Psychiatric Evaluation
• Full Battery of Multidisciplinary Assessments
• Complex EEG
• Auditory Evoke Potential
• Visual Evoke Potential
• Neuro Psychological Testing
• Neurology Consult for Test Interpretation
• Neuro Psychiatric Consultation for Medication Management
• Group therapy
• Family Therapy
• Neuro Psychiatric Milieu
• Aggressive Medication Management To Achieve Therapeutic Levels in a Two Week Period

 

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