We provide individualized bipolar assessments for children, teens, and adults, led from start to finish by one psychologist. Bipolar disorder involves significant shifts in mood, energy, and functioning that can disrupt relationships, school or work performance, and daily life. You can start directly, with no referral needed.
Each evaluation provides an in-depth understanding of mood patterns and emotional functioning, building from a cognitive and executive function baseline before exploring depressive episodes and periods of elevated mood such as hypomania or mania. We assess symptoms including sleep changes, energy shifts, impulsivity, racing thoughts, grandiosity, family history, and possible overlapping conditions. Because emotional health concerns rarely show up alone, bipolar findings are often clearest inside our comprehensive neuropsychological evaluation, which screens for overlapping conditions and gives Menomonee Falls families a complete, individualized picture they can act on.
Comprehensive assessments that map mood patterns and produce clear, individualized recommendations. The result is a complete picture, real clarity, and a plan that fits the person, not a template.
Children with intense mood swings, irritability, disrupted sleep, big emotional reactions, or stretches of unusually high energy and impulsivity.
Teens cycling between depression and elevated mood, taking impulsive risks, withdrawing socially, or struggling to keep school and routines on track.
Adults living with ongoing mood instability, energy swings, impulsive decisions, or strained relationships at home and work.
Your evaluation begins with a one-hour clinical interview where your psychologist gathers a thorough history of mood patterns, energy levels, and behavioral changes from childhood through your current daily life. This conversation is critical for identifying the cycling patterns that distinguish bipolar disorder from other mood conditions and for selecting the right assessments.
Your psychologist selects a personalized battery of mood and psychological assessments designed to capture the full range of your experiences. Testing involves 2 to 6 hours of in-person evaluation over one to two days. You will also be sent home with self-report questionnaires, and someone close to you can complete their own to provide perspective on mood and behavioral patterns over time. If your psychologist identifies signs of other conditions (such as ADHD, anxiety, or depression), those areas are screened for as well.
All testing data, clinical observations, and questionnaire results are compiled into a detailed diagnostic report. Accurate differential diagnosis is especially important with bipolar disorder, so your psychologist carefully evaluates mood patterns, episode history, and symptom presentation. Any co-occurring conditions are fully documented.
Approximately two to three weeks after testing, you return for a feedback session. Your psychologist walks through the diagnosis and provides individualized recommendations: treatment planning, evidence-based therapy options, medication considerations, lifestyle management strategies, and next steps tailored to your situation.
Mood episodes in bipolar disorder can affect cognitive functioning in ways that persist even between episodes. By establishing a cognitive and executive function baseline at the start of the evaluation, the psychologist can document whether attention, memory, processing speed, or executive skills are affected, how severely, and in what ways. This information is clinically meaningful on its own and also helps differentiate bipolar disorder from conditions like ADHD that produce similar-looking cognitive patterns.
Yes. The evaluation often brings clarity to patterns that have caused recurring problems in relationships, employment, and daily functioning. When findings are shared during the feedback session, many people recognize for the first time why certain situations have consistently been challenging. The individualized recommendations included in the report are designed to translate clinical findings into practical strategies.
Yes. Adults who have received a prior diagnosis and want a more thorough evaluation are welcome. A previous diagnosis is taken into account during the intake process, and the evaluation proceeds with the same level of rigor and clinical thoroughness as any other assessment. The findings may confirm, refine, or add nuance to the prior diagnosis.
Uncertainty is exactly what an evaluation is designed to resolve. Many people who seek evaluation are unsure whether what they are experiencing rises to the level of a clinical condition. The structured clinical interview, standardized instruments, and cognitive baseline together give the psychologist enough information to determine whether a diagnosis is appropriate or whether the symptoms reflect something else entirely.
Usually yes, because mood concerns rarely exist in isolation. Executive function difficulties, attention challenges, anxiety, and learning differences commonly accompany bipolar disorder and significantly affect daily life. A comprehensive neuropsychological evaluation captures all of these in one process. Ask the Core Spring Diagnostics intake team whether your situation calls for a focused or comprehensive evaluation.
Call Core Spring Diagnostics at (414) 387-2100 or submit a consultation request through the website. The team will discuss your concerns and help identify the most appropriate evaluation scope.
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