About Us
Mission: Understanding, Protecting and Healing the Brain
- Understanding the brain’s ability to restore or protect healthy brain function
- Protecting the brain from unnecessary mental decline
- Healing the brain through treatments that regenerate brain function
UT Dallas Center for BrainHealth
- Links:
- Cutting-edge technologies in brain science with
- The intellectual talent of scientists and clinicians, and
- Advances:
- Cognitive Treatments
- Brain Repair Across Diseases
Uniqueness of UT Dallas Center for BrainHealth
BrainHealth pioneers a novel horizontal approach to uncover commonalities in brain repair.
BrainHealth’s horizontal approach:
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- Establish protocols for healthy brain function
- Diagnose and treat children and adults
- Focus across brain concerns in disease and injury
- Provide long-term follow up
- Facilitates discovery
- Expedites promising new treatments
- Transfers application across diverse diseases/injuries
In contrast, most approaches:
- Focus on either children or adults
- Concentrate on one disease process
- Provide time-limited intervention
This horizontal approach incorporates the following components:
- Multidimensional diagnosis – specialized cognitive assessment of functions such as
- Abstracting connected language
- Processing information at word, sentence and text level
- Assessing different forms and complexity levels of memory function
- Executive function
- Verbal and non-verbal reasoning
- Groundbreaking Cognitive Interventions – intervention programs across groups such as attention deficit disorder, healthy aging, stroke, dementia, brain injury, and autism to mention a few.
- Multimodality Functional Brain Imaging (EEG, fMRI, rTMS) – use of latest technology to measure baseline brain function and reconnection of brain networks after treatment.
- Brain Biomarkers – markers that impact onset, progression, and recovery of brain disease including genes, hormones and neurotransmitters.
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You can’t help but be impressed by the research going on at The UT Dallas Center for BrainHealth. Top to bottom, I think they are putting in place the team that will lead to new breakthroughs in autism, attention deficit disorder, Alzheimer’s and other significant brain issues.
T. Boone Pickens,
Dallas Businessman and Philanthropist
