Keith E. Saylor, Ph.D., Sc.M., the President and CEO of NeuroScience, Inc., received his Ph.D. in Health Psychology from Stanford University and his Master’s degree in Public Health from the School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Saylor is a licensed clinical psychologist (Virginia) who maintains active research and private practices. He is an experienced clinician and researcher with special expertise conducting clinical trial research for new medications for behavioral health. He is either a lead- or co-author on a wide range of publications related to the psychological health of children, adolescents, and adults. He is the principal developer of the Life Participation Scale for ADHD (child and adult versions), which has been used successfully in several large clinical trials to measure improvements in ADHD symptoms not captured by other questionnaires.
Dr. Saylor’s clinical practice focuses largely on disorders of attention and anxiety — particularly Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and OC spectrum disorders (i.e., body dysmorphic disorder, skin picking, trichotillomania), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), specific phobias, Social Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, and Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Dr. Saylor specializes in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) with a particular emphasis on mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness-based stress reduction. Dr. Saylor completed specialized post-doctoral training in couples therapy and sees a limited number of couples therapy cases. He is a member of the International OCD Foundation (IOCDF), the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT), the Anxiety Disorders Association of America, Children and Adults with Attention Deficity Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD), the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science, and the American Psychological Association (APA). NeuroScience, Inc. maintains best-practice standards by using the latest evidence-based therapeutic interventions.
Since 1988, Dr. Saylor has served as the Principal Investigator for pediatric, adolescent, and adult clinical trials in Depression, Anxiety, ADHD, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Eating Disorders, Insomnia, Autism, Down Syndrome, and Fibromyalgia. He has received formal training in Good Clinical Practice for research trials, as well as training and certification in numerous standardized assessments. Dr. Saylor is well known in the research community for the quality of his data. Four of his studies were audited by the FDA between 2007 and 2010 with excellent results (no findings).
Dr. Saylor was the first practitioner in the Washington, DC, metropolitan region to introduce Virtual Reality Therapy (VR). Along with the developers of VR, Dr. Saylor has been featured in articles in Baltimore Magazine,Rudy Maxa’s Fearless Traveler, Washingtonian Magazine, theWashington Post, Reader’s Digest, Outside Magazine, U.S. News and World Report, American Psychologist, and on NBC4 News with Doreen Gentzler. In 2009, Washingtonian Magazine named Dr. Saylor a “Top Therapist,” designating him among “the areas most respected therapists.” He was a featured therapist on two episodes of Hoarding: Buried Alive, which aired on TLC and Discovery.
