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Dr. Jeremy B. Hertza, Psy.D.
Helping patients, families, attorneys, and providers understand what is happening in the brain, and what should happen next.
Brain injuries can be difficult to recognize, difficult to explain, and even more difficult to navigate. Dr. Jeremy Hertza brings nearly two decades of neuropsychological assessment, rehabilitation, forensic experience, clinical leadership, and brain injury advocacy to All Things Neuro.
His role extends beyond identifying areas of concern. He helps translate complex neurological, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral findings into information people can understand and use, whether they are seeking answers after an injury, coordinating appropriate care, or trying to understand the full impact of neurotrauma on a person's life.
Dr. H Makes the Complex Understandable
A person who has experienced a concussion or traumatic brain injury may be dealing with memory problems, headaches, changes in mood, poor sleep, dizziness, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, or simply the feeling that something is not right. Those concerns can become even more frightening when a scan appears normal or a patient is discharged from the emergency room without a clear explanation for what comes next.
Dr. Hertza helps patients understand an important distinction: emergency testing is often designed to identify immediate dangers, such as bleeding or a skull fracture, and being cleared of an immediate emergency does not necessarily answer every question about cognitive, emotional, or functional changes following an injury. That is where careful follow-up, neuropsychological screening, and appropriate evaluation may become important.
His Care Philosophy
Careful. Fact-Based. Focused on the Person.
Three principles guide how Dr. Hertza approaches every case:
Dr. Hertza describes this as a partnership rather than a handoff: the providers communicate, the patient remains involved, and the care plan evolves based on progress and need.
Meet Dr. Jeremy Hertza
Dr. Jeremy Hertza is a board-certified neuropsychologist, Certified Brain Injury Specialist Trainer, clinical leader, educator, and advocate with more than 18 years of experience assessing children and adults with complex neurological, cognitive, psychological, and behavioral conditions.
His career has spanned a wide range of clinical and forensic settings:
At All Things Neuro, Dr. Hertza helps bring clinical meaning to complex neurotrauma concerns. He works to ensure that patients are evaluated thoughtfully, that findings are explained clearly, and that attorneys, families, and providers have better information to understand what may be happening and what should happen next.
Above all, Dr. Hertza is passionate about teaching. He believes people should not need a medical degree to understand their own symptoms, their evaluation, or their treatment pathway, and that commitment to making brain science understandable is central to his role within ATN.
Understanding Brain Injury: What Changes, and What Comes Next
Helping people understand what is happening in the brain, and what should happen next.
Brain injuries can be difficult to identify, difficult to explain, and even more difficult to navigate. Dr. Jeremy Hertza brings nearly two decades of neuropsychological assessment, rehabilitation, forensic experience, clinical leadership, and brain injury advocacy to All Things Neuro, and his work goes well beyond simply identifying areas of concern. He helps translate complex neurological, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral findings into information that people can actually understand and use.
For patients and families, that may mean finally having language for changes they have struggled to explain. For attorneys, it may mean having clearer, objective clinical information to understand a client's condition, function, and future needs. For medical professionals, it may mean bringing multiple disciplines and findings together to help determine the appropriate treatment pathway.
At the center of it all is a simple goal: understand the person, understand what changed, and help guide what should happen next.
The Expert Behind the Answers
A person can walk away from an accident looking physically intact while experiencing significant changes in attention, memory, processing, communication, sleep, emotional control, balance, or daily functioning. Those changes are not always visible from the outside: they may not be fully captured during a brief medical appointment, they may not appear on traditional imaging, and they may be difficult for the injured person to even recognize or describe. That is where neuropsychology can play an important role.
Dr. Hertza evaluates how injury, illness, trauma, and other conditions may affect the relationship between the brain and a person's thinking, emotions, behavior, and ability to function in everyday life. As a lifespan provider, he has extensive experience evaluating children, adults, and older adults across private practice, hospitals, rehabilitation programs, trauma settings, burn programs, transitional care, and forensic matters. His clinical background includes traumatic brain injury, concussion, stroke, dementia, PTSD, substance use disorders, ADHD, autism, neurodevelopmental conditions, and other complex neurological and psychological concerns.
Making Brain Science Understandable
Dr. Hertza has impressive credentials, but credentials alone are not what make him such an important part of the All Things Neuro story. His greatest strength may be his ability to teach: he can take a complicated topic involving brain anatomy, behavior, cognition, psychology, rehabilitation, or medical evidence and explain it in a way that feels practical rather than intimidating.
Dr. Hertza has described the role he wants to play very clearly. He wants to come across as a teacher. In practice, that means helping a patient understand why they still feel different when an emergency-room scan was normal, helping a family recognize that changes in mood, memory, behavior, or personality may be connected to an injury, and helping an attorney understand what a neuropsychological evaluation measures and why the results matter. It also means being honest about what the available information does, and does not, show.
The purpose is not to overwhelm people with medical terminology. The purpose is to give them greater clarity.
A Normal Scan Does Not Always Explain Ongoing Symptoms
After an accident or suspected head injury, the first priority is determining whether there is an immediate medical emergency. A CT scan or MRI may be used to look for concerns such as bleeding, fracture, swelling, or other structural abnormalities. When those immediate dangers are not found, a patient may be discharged and advised to follow up, but that does not necessarily mean that every possible consequence of the injury has been evaluated.
Traditional imaging and emergency assessment serve an essential purpose, yet they may not fully explain concerns involving:
When symptoms continue, additional screening or evaluation may help determine whether other areas should be examined more closely. The question is not merely, "Was there an emergency?" The next question may be, "How is this person functioning now, and what has changed?"
Careful. Fact-Based. Focused on the Person.
No two injuries, and no two people, are exactly alike. A meaningful evaluation must consider more than a diagnosis or an isolated test score. It should account for the individual's history, previous level of functioning, current symptoms, medical information, emotional health, daily responsibilities, and observations from the people who know them well. Dr. Hertza's approach begins with understanding the whole picture.
One Brain Injury Can Affect Many Parts of Life
A brain injury does not necessarily remain confined to one symptom. Changes in the brain can affect how a person thinks, feels, communicates, works, learns, sleeps, and interacts with others.
Understanding these concerns takes time, and as Dr. Hertza explains:
A person does not work for only 15 minutes, and a student does not attend school for only half an hour. Parents, employees, caregivers, and professionals all have to sustain their abilities throughout the day. That is one reason a comprehensive neuropsychological evaluation may take several hours: the evaluator is not merely asking whether the brain can perform a task once, but examining how the person sustains performance, responds to increasing demands, and functions across multiple cognitive and emotional areas.
What Is a Neuropsychologist?
A neuropsychologist is a doctoral-level specialist who focuses on the relationship between the brain and behavior. Neuropsychologists evaluate how injury, illness, developmental conditions, psychological concerns, and other factors may affect:
A neuropsychologist does not replace every other provider involved in brain injury care. Neurologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists, rehabilitation specialists, and other medical professionals may each contribute different expertise. The value of neuropsychology is its ability to examine how cognitive and emotional systems work together, and how changes within those systems affect the person's actual life.
For Attorneys and Legal Teams
Bringing the Pieces of a Complex Injury Case Together
Traumatic brain injury cases rarely depend on one piece of evidence. The full clinical picture may involve:
Dr. Hertza compares a complex case to a puzzle: each piece provides information, but the real value comes from understanding how those pieces fit together. A single normal scan does not necessarily resolve every question, a single score does not explain the entire person, and a diagnosis without functional context may not show how the condition affects work, independence, relationships, or long-term care needs. The objective is to develop a clearer, more complete, and clinically defensible understanding of what happened and how the person has been affected.
Objective Information Can Help Explain Invisible Change
Attorneys often hear clients say things like:
These experiences are meaningful, but they can be difficult to communicate without appropriate clinical context. Neuropsychological evaluation can provide objective information about areas such as attention, memory, processing, language, emotional functioning, and task performance.
Just as importantly, the results must be interpreted in relation to the individual. A person may score within an average range and still have experienced a meaningful decline. Someone who previously functioned at a very high level, for example, may now perform closer to the general average; that score may not appear impaired when viewed in isolation, but it may represent a substantial change for that individual.
That is why history, records, and collateral observations all matter. The question is not only, "How does this person compare with everyone else?" It may also be, "How does this person compare with who they were before?"
Pre-Existing Conditions Are Part of the Story
Most people bring a medical, educational, psychological, and personal history with them. Before the accident, a person may have experienced migraines, ADHD, depression, anxiety, a previous concussion, vascular risk factors, trauma, learning difficulties, chronic pain, or early cognitive concerns. Those factors should not simply be ignored; they should be understood.
Dr. Hertza's approach is to examine the person's history and determine how current patterns compare with prior functioning. Different conditions may produce different cognitive and behavioral patterns, and a previous condition may help explain why a person is more vulnerable to new symptoms. It may also help clinicians distinguish long-standing difficulties from meaningful post-incident changes. A thorough evaluation does not pretend the person had no history; it considers that history so the current condition can be interpreted more accurately.
Why Early Recognition Matters
Following an accident, physical pain often receives the most immediate attention. The person may be focused on the neck, back, shoulder, or orthopedic injuries that hurt most, and attorneys, case managers, and providers may naturally focus on those same concerns.
Brain-related symptoms can be far less obvious. The injured person may not immediately recognize difficulties with memory, processing, emotional regulation, or concentration, and family members may notice changes before the patient does. Symptoms may also be attributed to pain, stress, poor sleep, medication, or the emotional impact of the accident.
Early screening creates an opportunity to identify concerns before they become buried beneath other parts of the case or care plan, and it can help establish a more consistent record of when symptoms began, how they developed, and what steps were taken in response. Earlier recognition does not mean assuming that every injured person has a traumatic brain injury; it means asking the appropriate questions early enough to determine whether further evaluation may be warranted.
For Patients and Families
You Are Not Expected to Navigate This Alone
After an injury, it is normal to feel worried, confused, frustrated, or overwhelmed. A person may know that something feels different but struggle to explain exactly what changed, while family members may see changes in behavior, memory, personality, energy, judgment, or emotional control without knowing whether those changes are temporary or what they mean.
Dr. Hertza's message to patients and families is clear: you do not have to guess your way through this process. The role of the clinical team is to listen, evaluate carefully, explain the findings, and help determine what resources may be appropriate. Testing is not intended to reduce a person to a number, and a diagnosis is not intended to define the rest of someone's life. The purpose is to provide information, direction, and support.
As Dr. Hertza puts it:
A Clear Answer Can Bring Relief
Not every meaningful clinical outcome involves delivering good news; sometimes the greatest relief comes from finally understanding what is happening. Dr. Hertza has worked with people who feared they had dementia but were actually experiencing symptoms connected to medication effects, vitamin deficiencies, or other treatable concerns, and he has evaluated adults who spent years struggling with undiagnosed ADHD before finally accessing appropriate support. He has also had to deliver difficult diagnoses, and even then, an accurate explanation can reduce uncertainty.
A patient and family may leave with a clearer understanding of:
- Why certain changes are occurring
- What symptoms may be connected
- What treatment options may be available
- How the condition may be monitored
- What steps can help preserve function and quality of life
- Who will remain involved in their care
Answers do not erase every difficulty, but they can replace fear and confusion with a pathway forward.
Neuropsychology Across the Lifespan
Dr. Hertza is a lifespan provider with experience evaluating patients from early childhood through older adulthood, and brain injury does not necessarily look the same at every age.
Clinical Leadership Beyond the Exam Room
Dr. Hertza's experience extends well beyond direct patient evaluation. He has led clinical teams, hospital programs, rehabilitation services, training programs, and quality initiatives across multiple facilities and states. His professional experience includes work in:
He has served as an associate professor of neurology and psychiatry at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, and he is a published author and researcher whose work has addressed neurological, cognitive, developmental, and psychological conditions. Over the years he has presented to attorneys, physicians, rehabilitation professionals, psychologists, social workers, athletic organizations, patients, and families.
Dr. Hertza was also one of the forensic neuropsychologists selected to assist with matters arising from the Flint Water Crisis, and his advocacy work has included leadership with the Brain Injury Association of South Carolina, where he helped support efforts connected with the passage of a state concussion law in 2013. This combination of clinical care, program leadership, education, research, forensic experience, and advocacy gives him a broad view of neurotrauma: he understands the patient experience, the rehabilitation process, the questions attorneys must answer, and how to communicate complex findings clearly.
Frequently Asked Questions
When the Injury Is Complex, Clarity Matters
Earlier recognition of possible neurotrauma can help patients access appropriate care, help families better understand what they are seeing, and help legal and medical professionals make more informed decisions. All Things Neuro brings together objective diagnostics, neuropsychological insight, psychological care, rehabilitation resources, medical specialists, and care coordination to help identify the appropriate next step.
Dr. Jeremy Hertza brings both clinical authority and a teacher's approach to that mission. He listens, he evaluates thoughtfully, he explains what the information means, and he helps people move forward with greater clarity.