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

Dr. H. Allison Bender Receives Prestigious Jerry Sweet Leadership Award for Advocacy in Neuropsychology

July 9, 2025

Dr. H. Allison Bender, Director of Neuropsychological Services in the Department of Neurological Surgery at Weill...

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...

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: 866-426-7787

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