Neurological Surgery

Neuropsychology Services

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

H. Allison Bender, PhD, Weill Cornell Medicine
Dr. Bender Wins 2025 Jerry Sweet Leadership Award From AACN/ABCN
December 18, 2024

H. Allison Bender, PhD, ABPP-CN, has been named a 2025 winner of the Jerry Sweet Leadership Award by the American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology (AACN) and American Board of...

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...

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.

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 Bender, PhD, ABPP
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  • Professor of Neuropsychology in Neurological Surgery
  • Director of Neuropsychology Services
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Phone: 866-426-7787
Amanda L. Sacks-Zimmerman, Ph.D., ABPP-CN
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  • Clinical Neuropsychologist
  • Associate Professor of Neuropsychology in Neurological Surgery
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Phone: 212-746-3356

Neurosurgery Blog

A Back-to-School Balancing Act: The Lurking Danger of Stereotype Threat
Dr. Spat-Lemus and Dr. Bender

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
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