Forensic and Medicolegal Neuropsychology
Windy City Neuropsychology provides forensic and medicolegal neuropsychological services to attorneys, courts, fiduciaries, and parties to litigation across Illinois. Dr. Michael Wilson is a clinical neuropsychologist with experience across capacity evaluations, psychological autopsy, criminal mitigation, and personal injury and disability cases. He is a candidate for board certification through the American Board of Clinical Neuropsychology and previously spent seven years across the VA healthcare system, including substantial work with traumatic brain injury and polytrauma populations.
Forensic Practice Areas
Capacity Evaluations and Psychological Autopsy
Testamentary capacity, contractual capacity, medical decision-making, guardianship, undue influence, and post-mortem psychological autopsy in contested wills, disputed beneficiary designations, and contested deaths. Useful for estate and elder law attorneys, probate litigators, and trust and estate fiduciaries.
Criminal Mitigation and Competency
Defense-retained neuropsychological evaluations in federal and state criminal cases, including mitigation evaluations for sentencing, competency to stand trial, and evaluations of victims to document neurocognitive damages in violent crime cases. Experience with federal criminal defense in the Northern and Central Districts of Illinois.
Independent Medical Examinations and Personal Injury
Independent medical examinations, peer and file review, workers’ compensation evaluations, personal injury cases (available to either side), and independent neuropsychological evaluations for veterans pursuing service-connected disability claims. Seven years of prior VA service, including time at the Minneapolis VA Polytrauma and TBI Rehabilitation Center.
Why Neuropsychology in Forensic and Medicolegal Cases
Many forensic and medicolegal questions ultimately hinge on cognitive functioning. Did this person have the capacity to execute this document? Are this person’s cognitive symptoms consistent with the alleged injury? Does this defendant have the cognitive capacity to assist counsel? Was this person’s mental state at the time of the contested act consistent with sound judgment?
These are neuropsychological questions, not psychiatric or general clinical questions. A neuropsychological evaluation produces objective, standardized, norm-referenced data on the specific cognitive abilities at issue, which is harder to challenge on cross-examination than clinical impressions and which can identify subtle impairments that a clinical interview alone will miss.
For attorneys, fiduciaries, and courts, that distinction often matters in the cases where it matters most, including early-stage dementia, frontotemporal presentations, executive dysfunction without obvious memory loss, and cases where capacity is partially preserved.
Initial Consultation
To discuss a possible case, request a CV and fee schedule,
or arrange a consultation:
Email: mwilson@windycityneuropsychology.com
Phone: 708-729-5750
Fax: 888-264-6605
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