There is a big challenge with NeuroPsych Assessments (NPA). Many NeuroPsych doctors (NP) have a bias against prolonged symptoms from a concussion. This causes them to look at NPA results with a bias against concussion as a causation. These biased NP's will make every effort to diagnose depression and anxiety as the cause of the cognitive, memory and other dysfunctions.

I have had 2 full NPA's five years apart and in both, the NP diagnosed depression. They added to this malingering/faking, even though the validity tests showed no malingering. The mis-read of the MMPI-II also supported their diagnosis of depression.

The NPA will usually accurately diagnose cognitive and memory functions. This is valuable to confirm the subjects symptoms. It is just the bias or misinformed diagnosis of cause that makes NPA's problematic.