Under the leadership of Joshua B. Bederson, MD, Professor and Chair of Neurosurgery, Mount Sinai Health System is an internationally recognized leader in neurosurgery and continues to make a lasting global impact on neurosurgical outcomes, research, and education. As the largest unified and integrated neurosurgery department in New York City—with services provided throughout Manhattan, Queens, and Long Island—we provide more New Yorkers with neurosurgery care than any other health system in the city.
Mount Sinai’s Department of Neurosurgery is at the forefront of the rapid transformation of clinical practice driven by stunning new advances in technology and groundbreaking research. With Neurology and Neurosurgery at The Mount Sinai Hospital being ranked No. 9 in the nation in the 2022-23 “Best Hospitals” rankings of U.S. News & World Report, Mount Sinai aims to educate clinicians on the treatment of patients’ challenging conditions with the insight and expertise of its world-renowned surgeons.
Led by Barbara Vickrey, MD, MPH, Professor and Chair, the Department of Neurology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is equally robust in patient care, education, and research. The Department's foundational mission includes training the next generation of clinicians, clinician-educators, clinician-investigators, and future leaders in medicine, as well as providing high-quality patient care to all New York City communities. A unique blend of personalized patient care integrated with groundbreaking research teams and technology is instrumental in the pursuit of improving outcomes in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, and many other neurological disorders, referred from within our expansive health system, as well as from around the world.
Under the leadership of Joshua B. Bederson, MD, Professor and Chair of Neurosurgery, Mount Sinai Health System is an internationally recognized leader in neurosurgery and continues to make a lasting global impact on neurosurgical outcomes, research, and education. As the largest unified and integrated neurosurgery department in New York City—with services provided throughout Manhattan, Queens, and Long Island—we provide more New Yorkers with neurosurgery care than any other health system in the city.
Mount Sinai’s Department of Neurosurgery is at the forefront of the rapid transformation of clinical practice driven by stunning new advances in technology and groundbreaking research. With Neurology and Neurosurgery at The Mount Sinai Hospital being ranked No. 9 in the nation in the 2022-23 “Best Hospitals” rankings of U.S. News & World Report, Mount Sinai aims to educate clinicians on the treatment of patients’ challenging conditions with the insight and expertise of its world-renowned surgeons.
Led by Barbara Vickrey, MD, MPH, Professor and Chair, the Department of Neurology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is equally robust in patient care, education, and research. The Department's foundational mission includes training the next generation of clinicians, clinician-educators, clinician-investigators, and future leaders in medicine, as well as providing high-quality patient care to all New York City communities. A unique blend of personalized patient care integrated with groundbreaking research teams and technology is instrumental in the pursuit of improving outcomes in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, and many other neurological disorders, referred from within our expansive health system, as well as from around the world.
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Anna Pace, MD, discusses a new study that sought to describe migrainous headache frequency and severity and the relationship between trauma and discrimination in a sample of sexual and/or gender minority adults.
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Past social trauma is encoded by a population of stress/threat-responsive brain cells that become hyperactivated during subsequent interaction with non-threatening social targets.
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Mount Sinai Researchers Identify the Role of an Alzheimer’s Disease Risk Gene in the Brain
A new study links a gene called inositol polyphosphate-5-phosphatase D (INPP5D) which is concentrated in the brain’s cleanup cells known as microglia, to the inflammation that has increasingly emerged as a key mechanism contributing to Alzheimer’s disease.
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Mount Sinai Researchers Find Impaired Brain Circuitry Implicated by Cocaine and Heroin Addiction
White matter in the brain that was previously implicated in animal studies has now been suggested to be specifically impaired in the brains of people with addiction to cocaine or heroin.
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Telestroke and the Future of Teleneurology
Benjamin Kummer, MD, talks about telestroke and the future of teleneurology at a virtual session hosted by the American Medical Association (AMA) in collaboration with the American Academy of Neurology (AAN).
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Disparities in Epilepsy Care: The Challenges That Exist and New Strategies That Work
A conversation with Nathalie Jetté, MD, MSc, Professor of Neurology, and Population Health Science and Policy, and the Bludhorn Professor of International Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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Clinical Trials To Study Two Agents For Painful Peripheral Neuropathy In Diabetes Patients
Mount Sinai's Jessica Robinson-Papp, MD, MS, and Mary Catherine George, PhD, are the principal investigator (PI) and Co-PI, respectively, of the Early Phase Pain Investigational Clinical Network (EPPIC-Net) “Platform Protocol to Assess ...
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Research led by Mount Sinai has uncovered—for the first time—that eating healthy foods is associated with greater brain integrity, as detected by MRI imaging in people diagnosed with MS within the previous five years.
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Breakthrough Tool for Assessing Nerve Fibers Is Now Available to Neuroscientists Worldwide
Neuroscientists and engineers developing novel nerve stimulation devices to improve or restore impaired organ function now have access to a powerful and long awaited tool for overcoming the technical challenges of the past.
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Microscope Technology Provides 4K and 3D Visualization Beyond the Brain’s Surface
Joshua B. Bederson, MD, Chair of Neurosurgery at the Mount Sinai Health System, discusses advances in operating room technology and how it benefits patients.
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Neurology & Neurosurgery Specialty Report 2022
THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL’S departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery were top performers in both U.S. News & World Report and Newsweek rankings for 2021–2022, and in National Institutes of Health (NIH) research funding.
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Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have learned that the way the brain processes the complex emotion of regret may be linked to an individual’s ability to cope with stress, and altered in psychiatric disorders like depression.
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In a move that has the potential to change the future of surgery, advance quality care, and bring economic growth to New York City, Mount Sinai Health System announced today the launch of the Comprehensive Center for Surgical Innovation (CCSI).
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Updates on Epilepsy Surgery and Ongoing Clinical Trials
A look at the latest updates in epilepsy surgery at Mount Sinai, plus the status of ongoing clinical trials relating to the treatment of epilepsy
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Meningioma Embolization: Quantitative Insights and Implications for Minimally Invasive Surgery
Initial results of a new project focusing on treating brain tumors, particularly meningiomas, with embolization
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Mount Sinai Receives $2.9 Million To Study First-of-Its-Kind Brain Implant for Restoring Function in Paralyzed Patients
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An 85-year-old female with a high-risk vascular anatomy from diffuse fibromuscular dysplasia presents at Mount Sinai Queens with disabling neurological deficits from emergent large vessel occlusion ischemic stroke. She undergoes endovascular ...
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A 2-month-old female neonate presented to Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital for life-saving treatment of dural sinus malformation, hydrocephalus, and acute intracranial hemorrhage.
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Innovation Flourishes at Mount Sinai Through the Resources of Mount Sinai BioDesign
Mount Sinai's in-house incubator for biomedical innovation, Mount Sinai BioDesign, has two new products on the road to commercialization, underscoring its value as one of the most productive and entrepreneurial programs of its type in the nation.
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Constantinos G. Hadjipanayis, MD, PhD, shows how intraoperative visualization, with use of a 3D exoscope, 5-ALA fluorescence, neuronavigation, and diffusion tensor imaging fiber tracking, helped safely resect a high-grade glioma in a 33-year-old.
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Mount Sinai Neurology and Neurosurgery Departments Ranked No. 10 in Nation
The Mount Sinai Hospital's departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery were top performers in both U.S. News & World Report and Newsweek rankings for 2021–2022, and in National Institutes of Health (NIH) research funding.
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Vein of Galen Malformation Update
An update on the Department of Neurosurgery at Mount Sinai’s treatment of recent vein of Galen malformation cases
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Cerebrovascular Problems…and the Use of Research to Find Answers
A physician shares his experience with channeling research to find solutions to problems related to treating cerebrovascular disorders
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Mount Sinai Neurosurgeon presents Efficient, Radiation-Free Navigation: Ushering in a New Era of Spine Surgery
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A review of the embolization technique for curing arteriovenous malformations in the brain
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MMA Embolization for Subdural Hematoma: The Mount Sinai Experience
Reviewing the use of the middle meningeal artery embolization technique to treat subdural hematomas at Mount Sinai
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An overview of a new implantable device that aids in stroke recovery using vagal nerve stimulation
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Age-Old Debate: Anterior versus Posterior versus Combined Approaches for Cervical Pathology
Using a collection of case examples, a physician tackles the age-old debate of how to decide a surgical approach for spine surgery
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Towards Personalized Connectomic DBS for OCD
A physician shares his team’s groundbreaking work on connectomic-guided deep brain stimulation (DBS) for treating obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), as well as insights into the future of functional neurosurgery
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The Friedman Brain Institute Report
Little progress has been made in terms of curative treatments for adult and pediatric patients with brain cancer.
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Entrance to the Vein of Galen Aneurysmal Malformation
A review of vein of Galen aneurysmal malformations and endovascular techniques for treating them
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Machine Vision and Flash Navigation for Spine and Brain Surgery
"Machine vision" improves surgical accuracy for brain and spine surgery in real time
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Knowing When to Stop Removing Tumor
Discussion on surgical judgement and how and when to stop removing brain tumor when using various visualization technologies
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Mount Sinai Morningside: The Trauma Center Experience
An overview of the neurotrauma program at Mount Sinai Morningside in New York, NY.
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Central Retinal Artery Occlusion: Defining the Role of Neurointervention
The role of neurointervention in treating central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO).
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Realizing Innovation in Academia: The Origin Story of Mount Sinai BioDesign
The story of Mount Sinai BioDesign, a medical technology innovation hub at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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Neurophysiology in the Operating Room
The current state of technology and application of intraoperative neuromonitoring in neurocritical care.
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Revisiting Neurocritical Care Education
Updated approaches to educating neurocritical care fellows at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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Targeted Temperature Management in Neurocritical Care
Targeted temperature management for critically-ill neurologic patients.
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Neuroendovascular Embolizations to Cure Vein of Galen Malformations
View a Vein of Galen Malformation surgery on a six-day-old infant at The Mount Sinai Hospital
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Neurology & Neurosurgery Specialty Report 2021
Coronavirus and the Central Nervous System: A Published Review
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Neurosurgical Emergencies: Cases and Pearls
Overview of select neurosurgery emergency cases from Mount Sinai Morningside
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Issues in Neurocritical Care Today
This TeleRounds conference features presentations on the management of status epilepticus, multimodal neuromonitoring in the ICU, and the use of MRI for subarachnoid hemorrhages
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One physician recounts his experience being selected to answer prespecified questions posed by the FDA for a panel review on cerebral aneurysms
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Using Augmented Reality for Spine Surgery
Jeremy M. Steinberger, MD, demonstrates how augmented reality can be used for spine consultations and surgical planning,
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Frank Moore, MD, addresses residents about the mental skills he has cultivated to balance the demands of neurosurgery and everyday life
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Neurocritical Care Pearls: An Introduction to Neuroemergencies
Neha S. Dangayach, MD, MSCR, presents an introduction to neurological emergency care for residents and trainees.
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Molecular Mechanisms of Axon Regeneration and Neural Repair
A presentation from the Mount Sinai Department of Neurosurgery Global TeleRounds.
