Nicholas Bracciano, MD
Board-Certified Psychiatrist. Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Dr. Bracciano is a board-certified psychiatrist with specialized training in complex diagnostic evaluations, including patients where ADHD overlaps with anxiety, depression and other conditions that complicate the picture. He built Exhale Psychiatry to give adults a real answer about their attention and cognition, with standardized cognitive testing as part of every evaluation.
Every evaluation includes cognitive testing. It is repeated as treatment is adjusted, so your numbers and your own experience are read side by side. You see the numbers. You see the change.
Training and credentials
- Board-certified in psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology since 2020
- Trained in psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin, residency 2015 to 2019
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin
- Medical degree from Creighton University School of Medicine, 2015
Why Exhale exists
I built Exhale because I kept meeting the same two people. The adult who spent years being told they were just anxious or just disorganized and never had anyone sort it out properly. And the adult who had taken ADHD medication for a long time without anyone measuring what it was doing. Psychiatry has good tools for both. A careful interview, standardized scales and cognitive testing can separate ADHD from the conditions that look like it. The same testing, repeated while a dose is adjusted, gives us something to look at together beyond how the last week felt. That is the whole idea: a real evaluation, a plan built in the same visit and numbers you can follow over time against your own baseline.
How Dr. Bracciano practices
- Every evaluation includes cognitive testing, a structured clinical interview and validated rating scales
- Cognitive retesting at week 4 and week 12 while medication is adjusted, then quarterly once your dose is stable
- Results are reported by domain, each against your own baseline
- Conditions other than ADHD are identified, documented and referred, not treated here