William Hochberger, PhD, ABPP (he, him, his)
Dr. Hochberger is a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist and aviation (formerly HIMS) neuropsychologist who specializes in individualized and comprehensive evaluations of adults with a wide-range of neurologic and psychiatric concerns including: dementia and mild cognitive impairment, traumatic brain injury and concussion, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, stroke, depression, anxiety, and many others conditions that might impact cognitive functioning. He takes a collaborative approach to each patient he works from a holistic framework in order to maximize his patients’ overall quality of life and functioning.
Dr. Hochberger received his doctorate in clinical psychology with an emphasis in neuropsychology in 2017 from Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. He completed his predoctoral internship in neuropsychology through the VA Long Beach Healthcare System, and his two-year postdoctoral fellowship in neuropsychology and clinical research through the VA San Diego Healthcare System/University of California San Diego Department of Psychiatry joint training program. He has been a licensed clinical psychologist in the state of California since 2018.
His research interests have focused on identifying and characterizing neuropsychological deficits and intermediate phenotypes in psychotic-spectrum disorders. In addition, Dr. Hochberger has also examined novel biomarkers that can be used to predict response to cognitive remediation in an effort to improve treatment assignment and patient outcomes. His work in the area of procognitive interventions for schizophrenia was named by the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation as a “Leading Research Achievement, Top Advancements and Breakthroughs of 2018” for next generation therapies. Dr. Hochberger is a member at large on the Division 8 (Neuropsychology) board of the California Psychological Association and also serves as the California state representative on the Society for Clinical Neuropsychology Early Career Neuropsychologist Committee.