Why Choose the Le Bonheur Neuroscience Institute

Our nationally-recognized Neuroscience Institute offers a full breadth of diagnostic capabilities, which is unique for a pediatric hospital. Technology like the iMRI enhances the information our team can gather which helps children and their families make the best decisions in treatment. We also provide a full complement of support services to the pediatric neuroscience program including rehabilitation services, child life and social work.

Programs

• Our Neuroscience Institute  is ranked as one of the best children's neuroscience programs in the country by U.S. News & World Report.
• Our Pediatric Brain Tumor Program, a partnership between Le Bonheur and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, is one of the largest pediatric surgical programs in the country. Last year, our neurosurgeons performed 180 brain tumor surgeries.
• Our Comprehensive Epilepsy Center is an NAEC-accredited center that treated more than 1,000 patients in 2009. Some of those received care in Le Bonheur’s Epilepsy Monitoring Unit, a ten-bed unit dedicated to inpatient seizure monitoring. The team also conducts patient conferences to tailor diagnostic work and treatment to the particular needs of the child or adolescent.
• Our pediatric neuropsychologists can assess and treat cognitive changes like language and behavior associated with your child’s neurological condition.
• The Spine Center, in conjunction with Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics, offers comprehensive diagnostics, surgery and treatment of spine disorders.
• Our Sleep Center is the region’s only accredited sleep center dedicated to treating children from infancy to 18 years of age.
• Le Bonheur’s Craniofacial Program specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of complex craniofacial conditions. The multidisciplinary team includes a pediatric neurosurgeon, pediatric craniofacial plastic surgeon, pediatric orthodontist and other specialists.
• Our Tuberous Sclerosis Complex center is nationally recognized by the Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance as a regional referral center.

Technology

• Le Bonheur’s magnetocephalography (MEG) technology allows our neuroscientists to locate sources of activity in the brain using non-invasive magnetic fields.
• Le Bonheur is one of a handful of children’s hospitals with a 3T intraoperative MRI. The intraoperative MRI, which is located in the neurosurgical operating room, provides high resolution images before, during and after surgery.
• Le Bonheur also offers several capabilities in diagnostic neuroimaging, such as electroencephalogram (EEG), computerized tomography (CT scans), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI scans) and high-density electroencephalogram (EEG).

Expert Care

• Le Bonheur Children’s has more pediatric neurological and neurosurgical specialists than anyone in the region.
• All of our pediatric neurosurgeons and neurologists specialists are board certified and fellowship trained.
• All of our surgeons are members of the American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons, the leading organization of pediatric neurosurgeons specialists in the country.
• Each year, our pediatric neuroscience specialists publish research in prestigious medical journals as well as lecture and train other pediatric subspecialists from around the country.

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