A Service Member’s Perspective
“How far can we take the ability of our brains if we actually focused on training it like we do our bodies?”
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Social Cognition Research
Innovative virtual reality environments shown to improve life-enhancing abilities.
Alzheimer’s Disease
According to the Alzheimer’s Association, every 70 seconds someone in America develops the disease.
In the Spotlight
Wounded Veterans Find Peaceful Place to Play
Dallas Morning News reporter, Erin Booke, interviewed BrainHealth's medical science director, Dr. John Hart, about post traumatic stress in war veterans.
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Returning Vets Get Remarkable Results With Brain Training
WFAA Channel 8 reporter, Shelly Slater, spoke with Dr. Sandi Chapman and two Navy SEALs who have participated in BrainHealth's brain training for veterans.
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Scientific Advisory Board Member
Dr. Eric Nestler is the Nash Family Professor of Neuroscience at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, where he serves as Chair of the Department of Neuroscience and Director of the Friedman Brain Institute. He is a member of the Center for BrainHealth's scientific advisory board.
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Head of Community Programs
Molly Keebler evaluates healthy aging adults who are concerned about changes in their memory or thinking skills and studies the cognitive effects of brain training or aerobic exercise, and adults who have survived traumatic brain injury or stroke.
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Audette Rackley, M.S., CCC/SLP
Head of Special ProgramsA member of the Center for BrainHealth team since its inception in 1999, Audette is involved in research programs centered around healthy aging. She also administers BrainHealth's only clinical service, the BrainHealth physical.
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Special Events Associate, Community Relations
Julie plans and executes events that promote awareness and raise funds for the Center, and serves on the executive Board of the Center's Think Ahead Group (TAG), a group of young professionals passionate about brain health and BrainHealth.
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Assistant Director, Research Operations
Bruce Jones manages research operations at the Center for BrainHealth and coordinates BrainHealth's grant funding activities.
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From our blog
Center for BrainHealth Honors National Women’s Health Week
May 13 through 19 is National Women’s Health Week, coordinated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office on Women’s Health. The theme for 2012 is “It’s Your Time,” and the goal is to empower women to make their health a top priority.
Q&A with Dr. Asha Vas
This week, we sat down with Dr. Asha Vas, a member of the Center for BrainHealth's research team, to discuss how she became interested in the field of cognitive neuroscience. Learn more about her and her work at the Center.
In the news
UT Dallas Professor Gets $2 Million To Study Addictiveness Of Pot
Learn more about why Dr. Francesca Filbey is hoping her research into addiction will lead to more effective treatments.
Addiction Study Tracks the Brains of Drug Users
Dallas Observer writer, Leslie Minora, interviewed BrainHealth's Dr. Francesca Filbey about her research into the genetic and environmental factors that lead to addiction.
Worried about your memory?
Dallas Morning News writer, Mary Jacobs, took part in the BrainHealth Physical and interviewed Dr. Sandi Chapman about why memory may not be the marker of brain fitness.
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