ABOUT VISTA NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
Vista Neuropsychology is a clinical practice specializing in neurorehabilitation, offering a variety of services including assessment, therapy and consultation for individuals who are experiencing or have experienced neurological illness or injury. Combining expertise in clinical neuropsychology and rehabilitation psychology, our aim is to work collaboratively with patients, families, and providers in guiding the rehabilitation process, facilitating successful community reintegration, and promoting optimal individual outcomes.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Alzheimer’s disease and dementias
- Traumatic brain injury
Stroke
Brain tumors and cancers
Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders
Adult ADD/ADHD
Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
Spinal cord injury
- Seizure disorders
Infectious disease encephalopathies
Meet Dr. Connie Jacocks
Dr. Jacocks is a Board Certified Clinical Neuropsychologist (ABPP-CN) specializing in neuropsychological assessment as well as rehabilitation psychology intervention. She focuses on working with adults in a broad-based neurologic practice encompassing disorders of the central nervous system. This includes neuropsychological assessment of diverse medical and neurologic populations including traumatic brain injury, stroke, movement disorders, dementias, multiple sclerosis and other neurologic injuries and illnesses. Goals of neurorehabilitation intervention include providing patient education, cognitive rehabilitation (compensatory strategies), and health behavior intervention, in order to promote engagement in- and benefit from- rehabilitation therapies, maximize daily function and management of psychosocial stressors related to injury/illness, and facilitate community reintegration.
Dr. Jacocks obtained her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Miami (FL). She completed her pre-doctoral internship in Adult Neuropsychology at the University of Chicago. Dr. Jacocks completed a two-year post-doctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Following fellowship, Dr. Jacocks was an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins, working within the outpatient Brain and Stroke Rehabilitation Program where she provided neuropsychological assessment and intervention services with individuals with a range of brain injuries and illnesses, while embedded with an interdisciplinary team. More recently, she worked with both inpatients and outpatients, brain and spinal cord injury populations, at Craig Hospital, an internationally recognized rehabilitation hospital, with a continued passion towards neurorehabilitation and facilitating successful return to life activities and community reintegration.
Dr. Jacocks is also invested in education initiatives regarding motivational interviewing (MI). The Rehabilitation Engagement Collaborative (REC) was founded in partnership with colleagues from Craig Hospital and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. The REC provides rehabilitation-specific MI training materials and resources to improve provider skills and maximize patient outcomes. The initiative’s mission is to assist rehabilitation professionals in delivering patient and family-centered care and promote a collaborative rehab culture.