Neurosciences Procedures and Services

The Good Samaritan Hospital (GSH) Neurosciences program offers a variety of inpatient and outpatient services for neurological disorders and stroke care.

Neuroscience and Neurosurgery

Neuroscience is a field that is devoted to the scientific study of the nervous system. Traditionally, it is seen as a branch of biological sciences, but more recently there has been combined interest from many allied fields—both inside and outside of medicine—including cognitive psychology and neuro-psychology, computer science, statistics, and physics.

Neurosurgery is the surgical care of the brain and spinal cord, and treats many diseases and injuries of the brain, such as:

• Cerebral hemorrhages
• Cerebrovascular conditions such as aneurysms and vascular malformations
• Brain and spinal cord tumors
• Seizure disorders
• Spinal cord injuries
• Traumatic brain injury (Patients may enter through the Emergency Department but are transferred to GSH Neurosciences)
• Spinal surgeries

Neuroscience patients are cared for in both GSH inpatient and outpatient settings.

Inpatient settings include:

• Emergency care
• Intensive care unit (ICU)
• Neurological Continuous Monitoring Unit
• Neurology unit

Outpatient settings include:

• Physical therapy
• Speech therapy
• Occupational therapy