Press Releases
July 8, 2014
Center for BrainHealth’s Young Professionals Group Raises $50,000 for Autism Research
The Think Ahead Group (TAG), the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas’ young professionals group, has awarded $50,000 to help individuals with autism achieve more socially engaged lives and advantageous futures.
April 28, 2014
BrainHealth Research Shows Strategic Thinking Strengthens Intellectual Capacity
Strategy-based cognitive training has the potential to enhance cognitive performance and spill over to real-life benefit according to a data-driven perspective article by the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas published in the open-access journal Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience.
April 11, 2014
Symposium Focuses on Brain Connectivity in Health and Disease
The Center for BrainHealth hosted Reprogramming the Brain to Health, an annual symposium that brings together top neuroscientists and medical investigators to share breakthroughs in brain research, on April 10. This year’s symposium focused on the topic of “Brain Connectivity in Health and Disease.” Keynote speaker Dr. Floyd Bloom,…
April 4, 2014
BrainHealth Collaborates with Yale: Virtual Triumph, Real World Success
The Center for BrainHealth has partnered with Yale University's Child Study Center to study brain change and real-life effects of a virtual reality training program for those with autism.
March 3, 2014
Sleep to Improve Cognitive Performance
Want to get more sleep? Adequate rest plays a vital role in advancing brain health. Sleep expert Dr. James Maas shares tips and reasons for sleeping better and longer.
November 12, 2013
Study Finds Aerobic Exercise Improves Memory, Brain Function and Physical Fitness
A new study conducted by researchers at the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas published online in the open-access journal Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience found that engaging in a physical exercise regimen helps healthy aging adults improve their memory, brain health and physical fitness. This…
September 9, 2013
Study Finds Brain Training Enhances Brain Health of Adults Over 50
New research from the Center for BrainHealth shows that age-related brain decline may be reversible.
March 28, 2013
Charles L. Branch BrainHealth Award
UNPARALLELED BREAKTHROUGHS IN BRAIN RESEARCH The award’s namesake, Dr. Charles L. Branch, is a leading scholar, neurosurgeon, and humanitarian. Dr. Branch grew up in West Tennessee and graduated from Vanderbilt University Medical School in 1953. After a rotating internship at the University of Chicago, he completed his neurosurgical residency at…
March 22, 2013
Symposium to Explore Neuroscience of Addiction
The Reprogramming the Human Brain Symposium, an annual research and treatment conference organized in part by the Center for BrainHealth, will concentrate this year on the cognitive neuroscience of decision-making and addiction. The event, which brings together some of neuroscience’s most advanced researchers, is co-sponsored by the Helen Wills…
April 13, 2012
Reprogramming the Brain to Health Through Scientific Research
On April 12, the Center for BrainHealth, in partnership with the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at The University of California, Berkeley, held the annual Reprogramming the Brain to Health Symposium. The Symposium, held alternately at the Center for BrainHealth and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, also bestows the Charles…