Individualized treatment plans for patients
The Neuroscience Institute at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Temple offers the complete spectrum of diagnostics and treatment. With specialists from neurology, neurosurgery, neuro-oncology, neuropsychology and neurointerventional surgery, we offer advanced and individualized treatment plans for patients.
Treatment and services
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Brain and Spine Tumor Program
Brain and Spine Tumor Program
The Baylor Scott & White Neuroscience Institute offers expert care for patients battling tumors of the brain and spine. In collaboration with the Baylor Scott & White Cancer Institute, the Brain and Spine Tumor Program provides advanced treatment for patients with brain tumors and neurologic complications of cancer.
Our Temple brain and spine tumor program team includes:
- Neurologists
- Neurosurgeons
- Neuro-oncologists
- Radiation oncologists
- Surgical oncologists
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Comprehensive Stroke Center
Comprehensive Stroke Center
The stroke program at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Temple has been certified as a Comprehensive Stroke Center by Joint Commission since 2010, and has been certified as a Comprehensive Stroke Center since 2018.
This distinction is given to centers that demonstrate their stroke care program follows national standards and guidelines that can significantly improve outcomes for stroke patients.
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Epilepsy Center
Epilepsy Center
Our Level III Epilepsy Center in Temple offers advanced epilepsy treatment options
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Plummer Movement Disorders Center
Plummer Movement Disorders Center
The Baylor Scott & White Plummer Movement Disorders Center (PMDC) is part of the division of Baylor Scott & White's Neurology Department within the Neuroscience Institute. The center offers a variety of treatments for patients suffering from movement disorders.
Diagnostic methods
The full extent of a movement disorder may not be completely understood at first, but may be revealed with comprehensive medical evaluation and diagnostic testing.
Movement disorders also depend on a number of diagnostic tools, including:
- Patient’s complete health history
- Thorough neurological exam by a specialist
- Complete family history
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Treatment options
Baylor Scott & White offers a number of treatment options to provide relief from movement disorders symptoms, including:
- Medication to help control symptoms and manage depression or anxiety that may accompany the disorder
- Botox injections to relieve muscle contractions and spasms
- Lifestyle changes such as exercise, diet or stress management
- Supportive therapies including physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy
- Surgery, depending on the extent of the symptoms
- Deep brain stimulation, a surgical procedure used to treat certain neurologic conditions. In this type of treatment, an electrode is implanted surgically into the deep brain structures that influence movement. The conditions most commonly treated with DBS are Parkinson’s disease, dystonia and tremors
Brain and Spine Tumor Program
The Baylor Scott & White Neuroscience Institute offers expert care for patients battling tumors of the brain and spine. In collaboration with the Baylor Scott & White Cancer Institute, the Brain and Spine Tumor Program provides advanced treatment for patients with brain tumors and neurologic complications of cancer.
Our Temple brain and spine tumor program team includes:
- Neurologists
- Neurosurgeons
- Neuro-oncologists
- Radiation oncologists
- Surgical oncologists
Comprehensive Stroke Center
The stroke program at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Temple has been certified as a Comprehensive Stroke Center by Joint Commission since 2010, and has been certified as a Comprehensive Stroke Center since 2018.
This distinction is given to centers that demonstrate their stroke care program follows national standards and guidelines that can significantly improve outcomes for stroke patients.
Epilepsy Center
Our Level III Epilepsy Center in Temple offers advanced epilepsy treatment options
Learn more about the Epilepsy CenterPlummer Movement Disorders Center
The Baylor Scott & White Plummer Movement Disorders Center (PMDC) is part of the division of Baylor Scott & White's Neurology Department within the Neuroscience Institute. The center offers a variety of treatments for patients suffering from movement disorders.
Diagnostic methods
The full extent of a movement disorder may not be completely understood at first, but may be revealed with comprehensive medical evaluation and diagnostic testing.
Movement disorders also depend on a number of diagnostic tools, including:
- Patient’s complete health history
- Thorough neurological exam by a specialist
- Complete family history
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Treatment options
Baylor Scott & White offers a number of treatment options to provide relief from movement disorders symptoms, including:
- Medication to help control symptoms and manage depression or anxiety that may accompany the disorder
- Botox injections to relieve muscle contractions and spasms
- Lifestyle changes such as exercise, diet or stress management
- Supportive therapies including physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy
- Surgery, depending on the extent of the symptoms
- Deep brain stimulation, a surgical procedure used to treat certain neurologic conditions. In this type of treatment, an electrode is implanted surgically into the deep brain structures that influence movement. The conditions most commonly treated with DBS are Parkinson’s disease, dystonia and tremors
Achievements
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Temple's Comprehensive Stroke Center achievements include:
- 2018 American Heart Association/American Stroke Association Get with the Guidelines Stroke Gold Plus Designation, recognizing demonstrated performance for 24 or more consecutive months
- 2018 recipient of Target Stroke Honor Roll Elite Plus Award (American Heart Association/America Stroke Association) for quickly delivering clot-busting medication, which could improve outcomes for patients who may suffer a stroke
- To earn this award, clot-busting medication must be delivered within 60 minutes to at least 75% of acute ischemic stroke patients and within 45 minutes to at least 50% of patients
- In 2019, the median time for administering clot-busting medication was 43 minutes, with 96.7% of patients receiving it within 60 minutes of arriving in the emergency department and 87.5% of patients receiving it within 45 minutes
- 99.2% compliance with all American Heart Association/America Stroke Association Stroke Measures in 2019
- In 2019, 82 patients were treated with clot-busting (thrombolytic) medication, and 34 patients were treated with mechanical endovascular reperfusion therapy
- Fall 2019 regional report demonstrates a 0% serious complication rate for patients that have had a carotid endarterectomy or carotid stenting procedure at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Temple. This rate is below the national average
- Serious complications can include stroke, death or heart attack after the procedure
- To minimize the stroke risk, a provider may recommend the patient has a carotid endarterectomy or carotid stenting procedure to restore blood flow in the neck artery and to the brain