Dr. Jain is a clinical neuropsychologist; she specializes in neuropsychology which is the study of brain-behavior relationships and conducts neuropsychological assessments to evaluate brain-based difficulties affecting neurocognitive and neurobehavioral functioning. Dr. Jain specializes in the evaluation of children, adolescents, and enrolled college students with concerns including autism spectrum disorders, AD/HD, executive dysfunction, memory problems, and neuropsychological difficulties which arise as a result of medical conditions such as, traumatic brain injury, hydrocephalus, seizures/epilepsy, cancer, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, and sickle cells disease. Dr. Jain works closely with referring physicians/therapists (e.g., pediatricians, neurologists, behavioral therapists, occupational therapists, and speech language pathologists) and schools in order to explain evaluation results and provide ongoing follow-up with respect to medication management and program development (e.g., academic accommodations such as IEPs, tutoring, referrals for specific therapies.
Dr. Jain is a graduate of the Clinical Psychology doctoral program at the University of Houston in Houston, Texas. She completed her Master’s in Psychology at the University of Houston and her Bachelor’s in Psychology and German at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Dr. Jain completed a clinical internship in pediatric psychology at Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Thereafter, she was a clinical neuropsychology postdoctoral fellow at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Dr. Jain also completed a fellowship in pediatric neuropsychology and epidemiology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. Dr. Jain has published scholarly articles in several peer-reviewed journals and has authored book chapters on childhood cancer and neuropsychology.