Amanda Sacks-Zimmerman, Ph.D., ABPP
Locations and Appointments
Neurological Surgery
Neurological Surgery
Insurances Accepted
Please contact the doctor's office to verify that your insurance is accepted.
- AETNA
- Aetna - NYP
- CIGNA
- Emblem/Hip
- Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield
- Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield Healthplus
- VNSNY CHOICE
About Amanda Sacks-Zimmerman, Ph.D., ABPP
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. She treats a variety of 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; silent infarcts; 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; and dementia diagnoses including mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease, multi-infarct dementia, and frontal temporal dementia.
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Dr. Sacks-Zimmerman sees patients at 520 East 70th St. @ York Ave. (Starr 651) For more information or to schedule an appointment, visit https://neurosurgery.weillcornell.org or call 212-746-3356
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TRAINING
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 assessing, treating, and researching acquired and traumatic brain injury. Additionally, she has been a staff psychologist at NYU Langone Medical Center Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine for three years and a neuropsychologist in the Faculty Group Practice in the Department of Psychiatry at the NYU Langone Medical Center and is faculty appointed to the Department of Anesthesiology at the NYU Langone Medical Center.
RESEARCH
Dr. Sacks-Zimmerman has been involved in various research projects throughout her training and professional career. Specifically, during her first postdoctoral fellowship at the University Behavioral Healthcare, UMDNJ, she derived research projects examining cognitive correlates of emotion in dementia as well as published book chapters regarding PTSD and family interventions in older adults. During her second postdoctoral fellowship at Mount Sinai Medical Center, she assisted in deriving manualized Cognitive Behavioral Treatment for individuals post-TBI for the purpose of researching the efficacy of this treatment, participated in systematic reviews of literature on evidenced based practices of treatment post TBI, developed research projects, published findings, and presented at conferences on TBI and aging. During her time as a faculty appointed member to the Department of Anesthesiology at NYULMC, Dr. Sacks-Zimmerman analyzed and presented data on post-operative cognitive dysfunction as well as derived research studies on cognitive issues post-operatively in cardiac patients and cognitive issues related to compliance in the wound care population. She is currently in the process of developing research projects to examine the efficacy of cognitive remediation programs on post-operative cognitive difficulties in brain tumor patients within the Department of Neurological Surgery Weill Cornell Medical College.
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Board Certifications
- Clinical Neuropsychology
Expertise
Cognitive and Behavioral Changes
Cognitive and Neurobehavioral Dysfunction
Cognitive Change
Cognitive Changes
Cognitive Complaints
Cognitive Decline
Cognitive Deficit As Late Effect of Cerebral Aneurysm
Cognitive Deficit As Late Effect of Traumatic Brain Injury
Cognitive Deficit Due to Multiple Subcortical Infarcts
Cognitive Deficit Due to Old Cerebral Infarction
Cognitive Deficit Due to Old Embolic Stroke
Cognitive Deficit Due to Old Head Injury
Cognitive Deficit Due to Old Head Trauma
Cognitive Deficit Due to Old Intracerebral Hemorrhage
Cognitive Deficit Due to Old Lacunar Stroke
Cognitive Deficit Due to Old Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Cognitive Deficit Due to Parkinson's Disease
Cognitive Deficits, Late Effect of Cerebrovascular Disease
Cognitive Disorder
Cognitive Impairment, Mild, So Stated
Cognitive Psychotherapy
Cognitive Remediation After Brain Surgery
Cognitive Remediation After Brain Tumor Resection
Cognitive Remediation After Cardiovascular Event
Cognitive Remediation After Chemotherapy
Cognitive Remediation After Radiation
Cognitive Remediation After Stroke
Cognitive Remediation After Surgery
Cognitive Remediation After Traumatic Brain Injury
Cognitive Remediation For Chronic Cardiovascular Disorders
Cognitive Remediation For Movement Disorders
Cognitive-Behavior Therapy
Cognitive-Behavior Therapy (CBT)
Concussion Syndrome
Dementia Due to Head Trauma
Dementia Due to Head Trauma With Behavioral Disturbance
Dementia Due to Medical Condition With Behavioral Disturbance
Dementia Due to Multiple Sclerosis
Dementia Following Traumatic Brain Injury
Dementia With Parkinsonism
MCI (Mild Cognitive Impairment)
Mild Cognitive Disorder
Mild Cognitive Impairment
Mild Cognitive Impairment With Memory Loss
Provide Cognitive Emotional Support
Stroke Behavorial Changes
Stroke Rehabilitation
Training In Cognitive Skills
Traumatic Brain Injury
Education
Medical School: Fairleigh Dickinson University
Languages
- English
Titles & Positions
Associate Professor of Neuropsychology in Clinical Neurological Surgery
Psychologist
Hospital Affiliations
NewYork-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center
Education
- Medical School: Fairleigh Dickinson University
Titles & Positions
- Associate Professor of Neuropsychology in Clinical Neurological Surgery
- Psychologist
Board Certifications
- Clinical Neuropsychology
Languages Spoken
- English