Built by people who needed this.
NeuroPath combines deep behavioral science with operational expertise—born from firsthand experience with the gap it closes.
Manal Mehta
Co-Founder & Technical Lead
Manal is the architect and Technical Lead of NeuroPath Health, but the platform wasn’t born in a lab or a boardroom — it was built out of necessity. As the parent of a neurodivergent child, Manal lived a frustration that is universal to special education: brilliant clinical insights are consistently trapped in static, 40-page PDF documents. When a paraprofessional or teacher needed immediate guidance during a challenging moment, those vital behavior plans were sitting unread in a binder.
With a background spanning high-stakes finance, diplomatic service, and data engineering, Manal recognized this as a fundamental data delivery problem. An alumnus of Yale University and a former hedge fund partner, he spent his career building complex, deep-value data pipelines and autonomous analytical systems — and realized the same technological rigor could translate peer-reviewed behavioral science into accessible, real-time intelligence for educators.
Manal built the earliest proof-of-concept of the NeuroPath engine to ensure his own child’s support network — across different schools and providers — always had the right clinical strategy at the exact right moment. Today, he partners with Dr. Edelstein to scale that solution: replacing static PDFs with AI-driven systems that put expert behavioral guidance directly in the hands of classroom staff.
Matt Edelstein, PsyD, BCBA-D
Co-Founder & Clinical Lead
Dr. Edelstein is a dually licensed psychologist (PsyD) and Board Certified Behavior Analyst at the doctoral level (BCBA-D) with over a decade of clinical and research experience in the assessment and treatment of challenging behavior in pediatric populations. His work sits at the precise intersection of applied behavior analysis, school-based consultation, and caregiver training — the clinical foundations on which NeuroPath is built.
Dr. Edelstein earned his B.A. from Boston University, his M.A. from Columbia University, and his doctorate in clinical psychology from Rutgers University (GSAPP). He completed his doctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship in behavioral psychology and pediatrics, where his research focused on functional behavioral assessment, preference-based reinforcement, and behavioral parent training.
He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, a member of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI), and has been cited more than 55 times in peer-reviewed literature. The clinical instruments embedded in NeuroPath — including the preference assessment and the Structured Functional Behavior Interview — are derived directly from his published research.