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Amanda A. Sacks-Zimmerman, Board Certified Neuropsychologist

Associate Professor
Weill Cornell Medicine
Brooklyn, NY, United States

Amanda L. Sacks-Zimmerman, Ph.D., ABPP-CN, is a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist who has had extensive experience in assessing and treating neurological disorders with cognitive remediation as well as researching the cognitive impact of brain injury. Dr. Sacks-Zimmerman uses integrated cognitive remediation and cognitive behavioral therapy to treat neurological disorders. In her work within the Weill Cornell Medicine Department of Neurological Surgery. she has treated patients who suffer from cognitive and emotional difficulties that may be the result of epilepsy; radiation or chemotherapy; cardiopulmonary bypass procedures; surgery; cerebrovascular disease; stroke; brain tumor resection; movement disorders such as multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, and Huntington’s disease; metabolic disorders; infectious processes such as encephalitis or Lyme disease; chemical toxin exposure; traumatic brain injury; concussion; and dementia diagnoses including mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer’s disease, multi-infarct dementia, and frontal temporal dementia. Further, she engages special procedures within the Department of Neurological surgery including Wada procedures and awake langauge mapping to faciltaite optimal neurosurgical outcomes. She has published numerous papers on the efficacy of integrated CRT treatment for a variety of disorders including Chiari Malformation and post-COVID neurocognitive dysfunction.

Dr. Sacks-Zimmerman received her undergraduate degree in Psychology from The George Washington University and her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the Fairleigh Dickinson University. She completed two postdoctoral fellowships, one at University Behavioral Healthcare, UMDNJ, in Piscataway, New Jersey, focusing on geropsychology and one at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, where she was trained in neuropsychological intervention. She is currently an associate professor of neuropsychology within the Neurosurgical Department at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. Further, she is the Clinical Director of Neurocognitive Care within the Acheron Psychiatry Center for Psychiatric Healing in NYC.

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