Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center

Mischer Neuroscience Institute

Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center was the first in Houston to offer a comprehensive neuroscience program, with many specialty centers in place for decades. As the principal teaching hospital for the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, a multidisciplinary team of top faculty is equipped with leading-edge technology, including powerful options such as Gamma Knife radiosurgery and Magnetoencephalography (MEG).

Performing more than 1,500 neurosurgical procedures annually, our specialists offer world-class care, including:

Neurovascular diseases, aneurysm, Arteriovenous malformation (AVM), carotid artery disease, stroke and hemorrhage
Epilepsy, adult and pediatric
Tumor, benign, malignant, metastatic, pituitary, skull-base
Complex and minimally invasive spine surgery
Peripheral nerve injury or disease
Pediatric neurosurgery
Trigeminal neuralgia
Traumatic brain injury, spine and spinal cord injury
Advanced neurocritical care
Neuroendoscopy
Neurodegenerative and movement disorders

Annually conducting millions of dollars in neurological research, we are among the first to administer new drugs and use new techniques. That’s an important advantage for patients. Research programs include:

Clot-dissolving tPA therapy being used by our JCAHO-accredited MHH Stroke Center team.
Involvement in researching every new epilepsy drug and treatment approved in the past decade through the Texas Comprehensive Epilepsy Program, formed in 1990 between Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center and the University of Texas Medical School at Houston.

The very best equipment today’s high-tech world has to offer is available, including:

MEG: a non-invasive, nearly pain-free method of mapping a precise, 3-D, real-time image of the brain. No other clinical institution in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas or Oklahoma has MEG.
Gamma Knife Radiosurgery: Since acquiring the first Leksell Gamma Knife® in the region in 1993, the multidisciplinary team has used the device to treat more than 1,700 patients for brain abnormalities including tumors, epilepsy, AVM and trigeminal neuralgia. Entirely non-invasive and nearly painless, Gamma Knife is an outpatient procedure.

For more information or physician referral, call 713-222-CARE (2273).