Unparalleled Personalized Neurological And Psychological Care
Carolinas Institute for Neurology and Psychology is proud to lead the way in neurological care. Our providers are dedicated to providing advanced diagnostic, treatment, and management options for your neurological concerns.
We are pleased to offer neurological care and psychological care in one facility. Medication management, neurological exams, care management, psychological evaluations, testing, assessments, and emotional/behavioral therapies are offered to address comorbid conditions and to provide comprehensive treatment plans.
Carolinas Institute
Psychological services include treatment and therapy for ASD, ADHD, Depression, Anxiety, OCD, and trauma for children and adults. We utilize play, expressive, emotional, and behavioral therapies individually tailored to the patient’s needs. We do offer adult ASD evaluations, and ADHD testing for children and adults. Neuropsychological testing is offered to evaluate:
- Attention/Mental Control
- Memory
- Spatial Processing
- Reasoning/Calculation
- Reaction Time
- Information Processing Accuracy
- Information Processing Speed
- Cognitive Functioning
- Cognitive Proficiency
We offer academic gifted testing, as well as cognitive testing for children ages 4+.
Our Services
Neurological Exams
Diagnostic Testing
Medication Management
Behavioral Therapies
Psychological Evaluations
Care Coordination
DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT, AND TESTING
We are pleased to offer Electromyography, a technique for evaluating and recording the electrical activity produced by skeletal muscles.
Our provider has over 25 years of experience, and we offer comprehensive testing and follow-up care in one facility.
Services
Carolines Institute offers play based, cognitive behavioral, dialectic behavioral, and traditional psychotherapies.
Some of our areas of expertise in testing in include the following instruments:
ADOS2
The Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule-Second Edition (ADOS-2) is a standardized assessment tool that helps providers diagnose autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in children and adults.
MMPI 3
The MMPI-3 is an objective self-report measure of personality and psychopathology. It provides a contemporary assessment for mental health, medical, forensic, and public safety settings.
WISC V
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children® Fifth Edition (WISC®-V) is an intelligence test that measures a child’s intellectual ability and 5 cognitive domains that impact performance.
WAIS IV
The WAIS-IV measures intellectual performance as a multidimensional construct. The test contains numerous scales (Indices) assessing qualitatively different types of intellectual functioning.
TOVA 9
The T.O.V.A is a neuropsychological assessment that measures a person's attention while screening for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
ADAS-COG
The Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale-Cognitive subscale (ADAS-Cog) is the de facto standard primary outcome neuropsychological measure for Alzheimer’s and dementia. It measures several cognitive domains, including memory, language and praxis.
Neurology
Addressed Issues
- Chronic headaches
- Vision Loss/Double Vision
- Numbness/sensory loss
- Tingling/burning pain
- Impinged nerves of back and neck/nerve pain
- Weakness/paralysis
- Abnormal movements/tremors
- Loss of consciousness/syncope
- Seizures/epilepsy
- Strokes
- Head injury (chronic complications)Dementia/impairment of
- memory
- Multiple sclerosis
- Nerve and muscle disorders
Conditions Treated
- Bell’s Palsy
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS)
- Epilepsy
- Ischemic stroke
- Parkinson’s disease
- Peripheral nerve disorders
- Transient cerebral ischemia
- ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease)
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Brain fog
- Memory issues
- Cognitive Decline
- Vertigo
- Stroke
- Abnormal Eye Movements
- Acute Ischemic Stroke
- Arteriovenous Fistula Brain
- Arteriovenous Fistula Spine
- Arm Pain
- Ataxia
- Blurring of Vision
- Blurry Vision
- Brain Aneurysm
- Brain arteriovenous malformations
- Brain AVM
- Brain Cancer
- Brain Health
- Brain Injury
- Brain Metastasis
- Brain Tumor
- Bulging Disc
- Carpal Tunnel
- Cerebral Palsy
- Cerebral Vasculitis
- Cerebrospinal Fluid Leaks
- Cerebrovascular Disease
- Cervical Disc Disease
- Cervical disc herniation
- Cervical Dystonia
- Cervical Myelopathy
- Cervical Radiculopathy
- Cervical Spinal Stenosis
- Cervical Spine Disorders
- Cervical Spondylosis
- Cervical stenosis
- Cervicogenic headache
- Charcot Neuropathy
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT)
- Chiari Malformations
- Chronic Headache
- Chronic Intractable Headaches
- Concussion
- Cubital Tunnel Syndrome
- Degenerative Neurological Concerns
- Degenerative Spinal Conditions
- Dementia
- Diabetic Neuropathy
- Diabetic peripheral neuropathy
- Diplopia (Double Vision)
- Disc Degeneration
- Disc Disorders
- Disc Herniation
- Disc Herniations -Cervical, thoracic and lumbar
- Disc Protrusion
- Discogenic Back Pain
- Dizziness
- Dizziness and Falls
- Double Vision
- Dravet Syndrome
- Dural AVM
- Dyskinesia
- Dystonia
- Fainting
- Hand Numbness
- Head Pain
- Headache Medicine
- Headache Pain
- Headaches
- Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension
- Intercostal Neuralgia
- Intracerebral hemorrhage
- Intracranial stenosis
- Ischemic Optic Neuropathy
- Labyrinthitis
- Leg Pain
- Limb Dystonia
- Limb Length Discrepancy
- Limb Spasticity
- Lip Lines
- Lumbar Disc Disease
- Lumbar and Cervical Radiculopathy
- Lumbar / Lumbosacral Facet Arthritis
- Lumbar Disc Herniation
- Lumbar Radiculopathy
- Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
- Lumbar spine disorders
- Lumbar Spondylosis
- Lumbar stenosis
- Meniere’s Disease
- Meningioma
- Meningiomas
- Meningitis
- Migraine
- Migraine Disorder
- Migraine with Aura
- Minor Nerve Damage
- Motor Neuron Disease
- Moyamoya
- Moyamoya Disease
- Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
- Muscular Atrophy
- Muscular Dystrophy
- Muscular weakness
- Myasthenia Gravis (MG)
- Myelopathy
- Myelopathy- Cervical, thoracic, lumbar
- Myokymia
- Myopathy
- Nerve Compression
- Nerve Entrapment
- Nerve Injury
- Nerve Laceration
- Nerve Pain
- Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Neuromuscular Disorders
- Neuropathic Pain
- Neuropathies
- Neuropathy
- New Daily Persistent Headache
- Numbness
- Numbness in Leg
- Nystagmus
- Occipital Neuralgia
- Ocular Migraine
- Ocular Myasthenia Gravis
- Optic Neuritis
- Pain from Neuropathy
- Pain from Pinched Nerves
- Peripheral Neuropathy
- Polymyositis
- Post-Concussion Syndrome
- Postherpetic Neuralgia
- Prion Disease
- Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
- Prolapsed Disc
- Pseudotumor Cerebri (Intracranial hypertension)
- Ptosis
- Radial Nerve Injury
- Radial Tunnel Syndrome
- Radicular Pain
- Radiculopathy
- REM Sleep Behavior
- Restless leg syndrome (RLS)
- Seizure
- Spasticity
- Spinal Aneurysms and AVMs
- Spinal Cord Injury
- Spinal Degeneration
- Spinal Disorders
- Spinal stenosis
- Spine arteriovenous malformation
- Subdural Hematomas
- Subarachnoid hemorrhage
- Syncope
- Tardive Dyskinesia
- Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome
- Tension headache
- Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
- Thoracic Stenosis
- Tic Disorders
- Tics
- Tingling
- Tourette Syndrome
- Tourette’s Syndrome
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
- Traumatic Neuropathies
- Treatment for Peripheral Neuropathy
- Transient Visual Loss
- Tremors
- Ulnar Neuropathy
- Vertebral and Basilar Artery Stenosis
- Vertigo (BPPV)
- Vestibular Neuritis
About Us
Carolinas Institute for Neurology and Psychology is a private practice, born in the need to service our community by Dr. Loftus and Zainab Khan. The caliber of care, attention, and detail that our staff and providers serve is unparalleled in the region of Gaston, Cleveland, Rutherford, and Lincoln Counties.
Our beautiful practice is located in downtown Gastonia, and combines compassion, expertise, and patient care as the number one priority. We use state of the art equipment and gold standard instruments for diagnostic testing across impairments.
