When the nervous system malfunctions, patients can find themselves in serious trouble. Every day, as knowledge of this wondrous system grows, Mount Sinai’s experts employ the latest breakthroughs in research, medical technology, and techniques to successfully treat conditions of the brain and nerves in young, adult and geriatric patients.

Mount Sinai Medical Center provides comprehensive care to patients with neurological disorders. An interdisciplinary approach includes members of the Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, Radiation Oncology, Psychiatry and Rehabilitation Medicine. Mount Sinai physicians focus not only on survival but also on the quality of the patient's life during and after treatment. Treatments offered include care of brain tumors, strokes, intracranial aneurysms, severe head trauma, congenital disorders and infections, and neuromuscular diseases. Gene therapy for tumors is another curative approach available for selected patients.

All care at Mount Sinai utilizes state-of-the-art treatments. For tumors of the brain, base of the skull, and pituitary glands, our world-renowned neurosurgeons regularly employ the latest image-guided, three-dimensional, computer-assisted, minimally-invasive surgery – pioneered at Mount Sinai. By using this procedure (Stereotactic Neurosurgery), our surgical teams are able to increase positive patient results, with less pain and faster recoveries.

Mount Sinai is a New York State-designated Stroke Center, which acknowledges our exceptional ability to immediately begin providing life-saving acute stroke care, from the moment a patient reaches the emergency department.

At the famed Corinne Goldsmith Dickinson Center for Multiple Sclerosis, all aspects of care – diagnosis, disease management, rehabilitation, and support services – are coordinated for MS patients. The center’s physicians and scientists are dedicated to translating the latest and most promising research advances into patient care.

For neuromuscular diseases, including Muscular Dystrophy, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS, also known as “Lou Gehrig's disease”), and Parkinson’s disease, clinical care teams provide the newest quality-of-life treatments while our researchers engage in new projects to enhance knowledge of the diseases leading to cures.

Gradually, the mysteries of the nervous system are being unlocked and understood by Mount Sinai’s top-ranked neurosurgeons, neurologists, and researchers – to be translated into treatments that could have only been dreamed about just a few short years ago, to provide care that is unsurpassed.