Neuropsychological / psychological services.

Neurocognitive-neuropsychological assessment.

Although mental functioning is indispensable for our daily life and well-being, the specification of an individual cognitive performance profile and regular check-ups are not part of the daily practice in our health care system. Accordingly, there is no consistent integration of these assessments into clinical care and only few contact points are available for such services.
The COGITO Center offers neuropsychological assessments both for healthy persons who have an interest in a cognitive assessment for various reasons and for patients with various neurological underlying diseases or suspected thereof, among others:

Multiple sclerosis
Craniocerebral trauma
Epilepsy
Depression

Dementia
Stroke
Fatigue
Oncological diseases

Patients, but also healthy persons who would like to specify their current cognitive status, can initiate this themselves without a medical referral and get in touch with us. We will be happy to inform you in advance about the procedure of the evaluation and the resulting expenses in a brief and free of charge informational phone call.

Our services in the context of neuropsychological evaluations are as follows:

Cognitive assessments to specify an individual performance profile
Assessment of performance in areas such as perception, attention, learning, memory, planning and behavior control, psychiatric aspects, personality, fatigue, depression, anxiety and personal resources
Detection of disorders regarding mental functioning
Regular check-up assessments to monitor progress
Identification of possible treatment strategies and therapy modules on the basis of the results of the neuropsychological assessment

Cognitive training.

Cognitive training is a promising preventive option and an effective complement to drug therapies. The underlying concept includes training of cognitive performance by cognitive stimulation using appropriate tasks in order to stimulate alternative communication paths in the brain and thereby improve and maintain the performance of those affected in the longer term.

In own studies with different patient groups, significant performance improvements were shown after targeted working memory training. In this respect, cognitive training is to be understood as a method with the central goal of promoting changes in mental performance, in psychosocial aspects (e.g. motivation, fatigue) and in specific neuronal circuits. In order to answer the question whether a therapy for cognitive disorders might be helpful and which aspects should be targeted, it is strongly recommended to perform a neuropsychological diagnostical assessment before starting the training.

Our cognitive training services include the following:

cognitive training sessions in our center with an experienced psychologist
a treatment plan which is individually prepared and based on the results of neuropsychological diagnostics
exercises to improve impaired cognitive abilities or to maintain existing functions
conveying everyday strategies for compensating cognitive impairments
support in coping with the illness

Counseling / Psychosocial consultation.

Burdensome and sometimes devastating diagnoses come in unexpectedly and without preannouncement. In most cases, those affected feel left alone, overwhelmed and helpless. For this time of crisis, COGITO offers the possibility of an exchange until the affected person feels in control of the situation again or until, for example, a suitable psychotherapist has been found.

Our services within the framework of counseling / psychosocial consultation are as follows:

directed to people who have been diagnosed with a chronic inflammatory disease (e.g. multiple sclerosis), a neurodegenerative disease (e.g. Alzheimer's dementia, Parkinson's disease) or a tumor
emotional support for affected persons or relatives after stressful and upsetting diagnoses
answering personal questions about the disease professionally
concrete support when undertaking further steps, e.g. in the search for a suitable psychotherapist or a suitable rehabilitation clinic
the individual counseling units normally comprise 60 minutes each

Costs.

The services of the COGITO Center are invoiced to the patient as a self-payer and are to be paid by the patient, irrespective of any possible claim for reimbursement against any statutory or private health insurance company or another reimbursement agency.
Irrespective of this, we recommend you to contact your health insurance company or another reimbursement agency and request whether you can make a claim for reimbursement.

Please note that the details on costs refer to our services in German. An assessment and/or report in English can be associated with additional costs.

Paying by installments (four consecutive months) is possible.

We are pleased to inform you about the procedures and the associated expenses in a free of charge telephone call. Affected persons or relatives can contact us directly.

COGITO Kostenblatt | Selbstzahler (German)

COGITO Rates | Self-payers (English)

Information leaflet on our service of cognitive training.

COGITO | Information leaflet on cognitive training (German)