Neuropsychology Services | Neurological Surgery

Dr. Amanda Sacks-Zimmerman and Dr. Heidi A. Bender

At Weill Cornell Medicine Neurological Surgery we assess and treat the whole patient, not just a condition. About our Neuropsychology Services

News

A Top Hospital Neurosurgery in the World, #1 in NY, Third Year in a Row!

A Top Hospital for Neurosurgery in the World, #1 in NY, Third Year in a Row!

September 28, 2023

Since Newsweek and Statista started ranking specialized hospitals in 2021, the neurosurgery service at NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University has been at the top...

U.S. News Ranks Us #1 in New York, #2 in the Nation, for 2021

July 27, 2021

We now rank as the best neuro program east of the Rockies

Neuropsychology Services at Weill Cornell Medicine

The Neuropsychology Services Service at the Weill Cornell Medicine Brain and Spine Center is a world-class provider of treatment.

What our Patients Say

Tania Saiz and Dr. Amanda Sacks-Zimmerman at Weill Cornell Medicine Brain and Spine Center

“Thinking Hurt, and Words Were Hard”

Cognitive remediation helps a stroke survivor find her new normalNothing was normal in 2020, but by the summer of that first pandemic year 47-year-old Tania Saiz and her fiancé felt good about traveling from their home in White Plains, New York, to...

Our Care Team

H. Allison BenderPhD, ABPP

Professor of Neuropsychology in Neurological Surgery
Director of Neuropsychology Services

Clinical Profile

Phone: 212-746-3356

Amanda Sacks-ZimmermanPhD, ABPP-CN

Clinical Neuropsychologist
Associate Professor of Neuropsychology in Neurological Surgery

Clinical Profile

Phone: 212-746-3356

Neurosurgery Blog

A Back-to-School Balancing Act: The Lurking Danger of Stereotype Threat

By H. Allison Bender, PhD, ABPP-CN
and Jessica Spat-Lemus, PhD

The greatest gymnast of all time may have been grounded by a societal foe she never saw coming – let’s not allow that to happen to our kids