News Coverage
May 14, 2018
Virtual reality is used to enhance the lives of aging soldiers
Virtual-reality “goggles” are actually wearable cellphone sized video screens that include sensors that detect where in the scene the viewer’s eyes are looking. Acting on that information, the video software shifts the scene in a way that simulates the perspective of a viewer scanning left or right, up or down…
May 7, 2018
'He's happier': How a program for special needs athletes helps them find more than fitness
When you’re born under the special needs umbrella; when you get frustrated because no one can understand what you’re trying to say; when you are angry or depressed or antsy and don’t quite know what to do with those feelings, you might respond in any number of ways. Maybe you lash…
April 26, 2018
The stress of police work leads to higher rates of depression, anger and burnout
Which of these happened to you this morning? The barista at your coffee shop served you the wrong order. You spilled your coffee on your white shirt. You hit every red light on the way to work. These irritations might upset you, but they pass relatively quickly. In fact, the…
April 16, 2018
Are You Getting Enough Sleep?
Thomas Edison famously considered sleeping a “criminal waste of time, inherited from our cave days.” Russell Foster disagrees with the prolific American inventor. “We marginalize sleep, and think of it as a luxury,” said Foster, a circadian neuroscientist who studies the sleep cycles of the brain. But sleep is so…
April 6, 2018
Center For BrainHealth Names Leader for New Initiative
The Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas announced this week that neurologist and retired U.S. Army Colonel Dr. Geoffrey Ling will lead the center’s initiative to double human brain performance in the next 10 years. “Discoveries to advance brain health and performance as…
April 4, 2018
BrainHealth Team Secures Founding Director of DoD Research Agency Dr. Geoffrey Ling to Lead Initiative
Recently, the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas announced that neurologist and retired U.S. Army Colonel Dr. Geoffrey Ling will spearhead its latest initiative – to double human brain performance in the next 10 years. Dr. Ling is known as an innovator and a change-maker. His high-profile accomplishments include…
March 30, 2018
UT Dallas Researcher Gets MS Society Grant
Bart Rypma of the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas is one of 10 recipients who have been awarded funding from $433,800 in grants from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Rypma’s study uses neuroimaging methods to identify mechanisms involved in MS-related cognitive dysfunction, according to…
March 28, 2018
Social awareness increases prove brain changing in adults with autism
Researchers at the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas, in collaboration with co-leading authors at George Washington University and Yale, have demonstrated in a pilot study that a clinician-driven virtual learning platform, tailored to young adults on the autism spectrum, shows improved social competency. Findings published…
March 28, 2018
Social awareness increases demonstrate brain changing in adults with autism
Researchers at the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas, in collaboration with co-leading authors at George Washington University and Yale, have demonstrated in a pilot study that a clinician-driven virtual learning platform, tailored to young adults on the autism spectrum, shows improved social competency. Findings published…
March 5, 2018
More than crunches: 7 tips to keep your brain as sharp as your body
Dr. Chapman weighs in on tips to help keep your brain as sharp as your body in a recent Dallas Morning News article.