General Psychiatry

PROGRAM:

Psychodiagnostic and Neuropsychology Laboratory

DIRECTOR:

Raymond M. Costello, Ph.D., ABClinP

DESCRIPTION:

The P&NL is a specialized clinical service laboratory within the Department of Psychiatry providing consultative psychological evaluations for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.

PERSONNEL:

Raymond M. Costello, Ph.D.

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS:

Education is provided to referring physicians from all clinical service departments through the mechanism of the written consultation report regarding the socio-psychological and neuro-psychological factors affecting clinical presentations.

RESEARCH PROJECTS:

Three unfunded clinical service projects are in progress: (1) Psychological characterization involving the Rorschach Inkblot Method of women admitted to a Psychiatry inpatient unit because of a suicide gesture or with suicide ideation; (2) Statistical development of an optimal difficulty scaling for the Picture Arrangement subtest of the WAIS-III (3) Documentation of the time and cause of death of 500 alcoholic patients followed for 25 years after treatment.

PATIENT SERVICES:

State of the art psychological and neuro-psychological tests are available on an as-needed basis, tailored to the needs of the individual patient.

HOW DO INTERESTED INDIVIDUALS CONTACT THE PROGRAM?:

Patients are referred to the P&NL by any Department of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, any clinical service within the University Health System, or by outside sources. Ordinary consultation request forms are used if the referral is from within the system. The telephone number is 210-567-4768 for persons from outside the system.