Dr Jay Seitz

Dr Jay Seitz owns the neuropsychology consulting business, Midtown East Neuropsychology, PLLC.  He has been in private and group practice since 2000, over 16 years, but is currently not practicing but starting up a consulting business.  Dr Jay Seitz performed neuropsychological diagnosis and evaluation, neurocognitive and neurobehavioral assessment, and neurocognitive rehabilitation for central nervous system disorders affecting higher cognitive functions: Memory, concentration and attention (e.g., ADHD), learning and intellective disorders, autistic spectrum disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorders, traumatic brain injury (TBI), multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, stroke, dementia (e.g., Alzheimer's and vascular dementia), rare medical and brain disorders and disease, and psychosomatic disorders. Professional background Dr Jay Seitz is a former practicing neuropsychologist in specializing in clinical neuropsychology with children, adolescents, adults, and late-age adults.  He has been licensed in New York for the professional practice of psychology since 1991.  He has additional training in CBT (cognitive-behavioral therapy), REBT (rational-emotive behavioral therapy), biofeedback and pain management, and neurocognitive rehabilitation for patients who have suffered damage to the brain.  He was previously on the graduate and doctoral faculties of Adelphi University and the undergraduate and graduate faculties of New York University and City University of New York (CUNY, tenured 2001). Clinical practice  Dr Jay Seitz performed neuropsychological and neurocognitive evaluations and treated individuals with central nervous system disorders including problems with attention and concentration (ADHD), memory impairment, cognitive processing and language disorders, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders (OCD), autistic spectrum disorders (ASD), intellective and learning disorders, traumatic brain injury (TBI), multiple sclerosis (MS), epilepsy and seizure disorders, dementia and mild cognitive impairment (e.g., Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia), frontal lobe disorders and executive control dysfunctions, genetic and chromosomal syndromes (e.g., Fragile-X, Down's Syndrome), CNS infections, and exposure to environmental toxins in utero. Annoucing New Consulting Practice Dr Jay Seitz is starting up a consulting practice specializing in helping companies, businesses, hospitals, clinics, and medical practices leverage developments in healthcare, mental health care, pharmaceuticals, and nutraceuticals to enhance cognition and higher-order cognitive abilities for healthy aging as well as to ameliorate disease and disorder (e.g., dementia). Academic Work Dr Jay Seitz is currently writing a book on the evolution of intelligence in hominins from the perspective of cognitive neuroscience. He has published on the use and misuse of projective testing in children, the bodily basis of thought; the embodied nature of musical performance; the cognitive value of modern dance and ballet; the role of the brain in spatial-temporal thinking; the neural, evolutionary, cognitive origins of human creative thought; as well as the nature of human intelligence and the underlying architecture of the human brain that supports it. Midtown East Neuropsychology, PLLC www.midtowneastneuro.com www.linkedin.com/in/drjseitz www.twitter.com/drjseitz (917) 209–9623 mailto:[email protected] // ]]]]]]]]]]]]> // ]]]]]]]]]]> // ]]]]]]]]> // ]]]]]]> // ]]]]>]]>