A scientific approach to brain health, recovery, and resilience
When thinking, memory, mood, or behaviour begin to change, the cause of the problem may not be immediately clear.
You may have:
- ongoing cognitive difficulties despite normal brain scans
- incomplete recovery after stroke or traumatic brain injury
- persistent “brain fog”, fatigue, or poor concentration
- anxiety, mood instability, or stress that does not fully respond to treatment
- a sense that something is not right, without a clear explanation
These problems are often difficult to explain, and even more difficult to resolve without a structured understanding of brain function. In these situations, the key question is not only what is wrong, but how the brain is functioning as a system.
Ormond Neuroscience is a neuropsychology-led practice based in Johannesburg, providing specialist neuropsychological assessment and treatment. We focus on understanding and supporting brain function across illness, injury, and ageing. We assess, understand, and support brain function across illness, injury, and ageing.
About Ormond Neuroscience
Ormond Neuroscience provides specialised neuropsychological services through the expertise of an experienced clinical neuropsychologist, supported by a multidisciplinary team including educational psychology, psychometry, and administrative staff.
Our work spans both structural brain conditions — such as stroke and traumatic brain injury — and functional disturbances of brain systems, including depression, anxiety, PTSD, and related conditions. When difficulties are rooted in brain function, regulation, or adaptation, they fall within our scope.
We are based at Netcare Rehabilitation Hospital in Johannesburg and work within a multidisciplinary rehabilitation environment alongside physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, and neurology.
How we think about brain-related problems
Brain function cannot be understood by scans or diagnoses alone.
While structural injury and disease matter, many difficulties arise from disruptions in how brain systems regulate cognition, emotion, movement, autonomic function, sleep, and mental effort over time.
Neuropsychology sits at the interface between brain structure and lived experience. Our role is to clarify what is happening, why it matters, and which interventions are most appropriate — whether the goal is recovery, stabilisation, or long-term adaptation.
Even when there is no simple cure, accurate understanding often brings relief, direction, and better decision-making.
Effective care therefore requires more than diagnosis alone — it requires a structured understanding of how the brain is functioning and what conditions are needed for recovery or stabilisation.
Clinical neuropsychology focus and professional services
Our primary focus is clinical work: assessment, diagnosis, and treatment.
This includes comprehensive neuropsychological assessment, differential diagnosis of cognitive, emotional, and behavioural symptoms, and the development of targeted, evidence-informed intervention plans.
We also provide functional capacity evaluations for insurers, as well as medicolegal assessment and expert testimony in court matters.
Each case is approached individually, with care taken to ensure that conclusions and recommendations are proportionate, clinically justified, and appropriate to the person’s circumstances.
Neuroharmonics
Neuroharmonics is our structured brain health programme, designed to support regulation across cognitive, emotional, and physiological systems.
It has broad applicability across brain dysfunction, including both the acute and chronic phases of recovery from brain injury. It is especially valuable when symptoms persist despite otherwise appropriate treatment, or when there is a need for a more integrated, system-level approach.
As part of this framework, Ormond Neuroscience also incorporates vagus nerve stimulation (VNS), a form of bioelectric neuromodulation that can support regulation, neuroplasticity, and recovery. VNS may be used independently or integrated with broader rehabilitation and treatment approaches, depending on the individual’s needs and clinical presentation.
Neuroharmonics may be appropriate for individuals recovering from stroke or traumatic brain injury, those experiencing persistent cognitive or emotional difficulties, and people dealing with stress-related or functional disturbances of brain systems, autism spectrum–related challenges, and dysautonomia.
Rather than targeting isolated symptoms, we focus on creating the conditions under which the brain can regulate, adapt, and function more effectively. Neuroharmonics does not aim to force change or promise cures. Its purpose is to support the biological and psychological conditions under which the brain is most likely to function adaptively and optimally.
Our Patients & Collaborators
We work primarily with individuals experiencing brain-related difficulties, and also collaborate with referring doctors, families, and caregivers, attorneys involved in personal injury and medicolegal matters, insurers assessing disability and functional capacity, and organisations or businesses concerned about employees’ cognitive health.
If you are dealing with changes in thinking, memory, mood, or behaviour — whether sudden or gradual — the first step is to understand what is happening and why.
Clear, accurate understanding allows for better decisions, more appropriate intervention, and a more realistic path forward.
If you are concerned about changes in thinking, memory, mood, behaviour, or recovery, we may be able to help clarify what is happening and what can be done next.
To arrange an assessment or discuss a referral, please contact Ormond Neuroscience.
