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The Frances and Mildred Goad Building – named for the mother and grandmother of the building’s lead benefactor, Dianne Cash – opens the door to a new future achieving and restoring brain health for countless people of all ages.
A gift of $5 million from Dianne Cash enabled the Center to move forward at a critical time when expansion was essential. Ms. Cash emphasized that “the center didn’t ask me for money to build a permanent home – I asked them!” She decided to donate to UTD Center for BrainHealth because of the “critical importance” of the cause and the high quality of work being done at BrainHealth.
The design for the Center’s new facility was not accidental. The architect’s directive in creating the facility was to create a building that reflected the innovative brain discovery taking place within.
The new building, a sophisticated design by Kyley Harvey with HKS, Inc., one of the nation’s top 5 architectural firms, sits on a 3.5 acre tree-filled lot. The 63,000 square feet of space is dedicated to brain discovery, development of brain repair cognitive treatments, and defining guidelines for strengthening brain function.
Each floor is dedicated to carrying out a significant aspect of BrainHealth’s mission. Upon entering the building, the public is drawn into a welcoming, dynamic space, specifically:
- State-of-the-art auditorium where world-renowned brain researchers present seminars and public talks on rewiring the brain;
- Virtual classroom where researchers around the world link up via video to collaborate on groundbreaking research;
- The T. Boone Pickens Virtual Learning Center, where individuals learn how to overcome devastating social deficits;
- International Reception Hall where the public engages in informal question and answer, asking their burning questions about the brain.
Named the Frances and Mildred Goad Building in honor of
Ms.
Cash’s
mother, Frances Goad Cecil, and grandmother,
Mildred
Crews Goad.
Serious brainstorming by an experienced team of scientists working in concert to solve the mysteries of the mind takes place on the second floor. Using high-powered computers and data analyses technology, brain scientists, engineers, and technology experts representing all aspects of brain research, explore vast amounts of data to advance our understanding of how the brain works and rewires.
The third floor is the heartbeat of the Center’s clinically-based research, targeting a proactive approach to strengthening and repairing the brain. Brain scientists use diverse, state-of-the-art technologies to elucidate how brain networks can be strengthened or reconnected using electroencephalography (EEG), functional MRI (fMRI), and brain morphometrics.
Patients and their families are part of the exciting breakthroughs that emanate within the Center. They are an integral part of seeking better answers to bring hope of brain health across brain concerns.
