But with community support for education, medical research, and innovations in treatment, there is greater hope that these statistics will change. Northwest Neuroscience Institute Research, clinical trials and treatments are part of Northwest Hospital s Neuroscience Institute, which involves an array of specialists from neurologists and neurosurgeons to neuro-oncologists and neuropsychiatrists. Northwest Hospital is proud to be selected as the first non-academic site for clinical tests of Ancrod, which may help fight brain attack and reverse some of the damage caused by strokes. The Northwest Hospital Gamma Knife Center introduced Gamma Knife radiosurgery to the Pacific Northwest in 1993. Using no anesthesia or incisions, the Gamma Knife treats brain tumors, Parkinson s disease, vascular malformations, pain, and other neuralgic disorders.
Patients heal faster, reducing their hospital stay.
Northwest Neuroscience Institute is making inroads to minimize and even avoid such lifetime disability from strokes. Northwest Neuroscience Institute also hosts interdisciplinary pain and headache programs. These closely related leading edge programs take full advantage of the wealth of diverse talent available in our neuroscience community. The multi-disciplinary team provides full services to patients suffering from pain or headache, including medical and surgical interventions, behavioral techniques, biofeedback, physical rehabilitation, restoration of function, psychotherapy and alternative medicine. The Childbirth Center s home-like birth suites were the first in the Seattle area, allowing a woman to labor, deliver, recover, and receive postpartum care in a single room.