The ​BrainHealth Presents Series brings renowned experts to engage in live talks in an exclusive social setting at Center for BrainHealth in Dallas, Texas. Speakers featured are Dr. Charan Ranganath, Dr. Kim Gorgens, Dr. Adam Green and Dr. Mithu Storoni.

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Reading something new helps challenge status quo thinking and strengthen your innovative capacity.

Broaden Your Perspective by Reading

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Having a strategic approach to your to-do list helps your brain release the feel-good hormone dopamine.

Think "Elephants and Rabbits"

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Being in nature has a profound impact on the brain, helping dial down stress hormones and anxiety. 

Shape Your Brain in Nature

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BrainHealth Week 2025

Can good design promote better brain health? Join us to kick off BrainHealth Week at UTD. Meet us at the Visitor Center Atrium to enjoy complimentary lunch and a brain-healthy talk experts in design's impact on behavioral health. Following the talk, be among the first to experience the Brain Recharge Station, a one-of-a-kind exhibit by the award-winning architecture firm Perkins&Will. This event takes place at The University of Texas at Dallas.

Mindful Spaces: Enhancing Brain Health and Student Success Through the Built Environment

Phase I building of the Edith and Peter O’Donnell Jr. Athenaeum at The University of Texas at Dallas. Photo Credit: North Lobby Entrance of the O'Donnell Athenaeum Phase I Museum (detail). (c) Mauricio Rojas, Courtesy UT Dallas

NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: Be among the first to experience the architecture and collections in the O’Donnell Athenaeum at UT Dallas. Center for BrainHealth and the Crow Museum of Asian Art invite you to Night at the Museum, an Art of BrainHealth event for young professionals. Must be 21+ to attend Night at the Museum – but all ages may attend our pre-event Student Art Competition (starting at 4:30 PM). Both events take place at The University of Texas at Dallas.

Art of BrainHealth

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SOLD OUT: This special paid event will gather 250 female leaders and decision-makers from corporations and community organizations across North Texas to explore ways that brain health empowers women. Attendees will leave ready to take action for themselves, their families, their organizations and their communities. 

Empowering Women Through Brain Health

Explore the profound intersection of art and brain health through thought-provoking photographs from Dallas-based artists. This unique event features networking reception, art exhibit and interactive panel discussion with thought leaders in art and education. Must be 21+ to attend. 

Neuroscapes: Mapping the Mind Through Photography

Families learned about solar eclipses during BrainHealth Week 2024, with a speaker from Carnegie Science/Perot Museum

Our third annual Family Fair, held at Center for BrainHealth, offers a whirlwind journey into the human brain – with games, food, arts & crafts, activities and surprises. Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times. Advance registration is required.

Family Fair

BrainHealth Presents

Charan Ranganath, PhD, explains the hidden role memory plays in our lives and how we imagine the future.​ Author of the New York Times bestseller Why We Remember, Dr. Ranganath has pioneered a new way of thinking about the everyday act of remembering. One of the world’s top memory researchers, his work sheds light on the powerful role of memory in nearly every aspect of life, from recalling faces and names, to learning, decision-making, trauma and healing. He is director of the Dynamic Memory Lab at UC Davis and is an affiliated faculty with the Center for Mind and Brain.

Why We Remember – and How to Hold on to What Matters Most

Dr. Kim Gorgens reframes our understanding of brain injury by connecting with often-overlooked populations. Reaching millions of viewers through inspiring TED talks on youth sports concussion and brain injuries in criminal justice, Dr. Gorgens has appeared on CNN with Anderson Cooper, NPR and 20/20. A professor of psychology at University of Denver, she manages a large portfolio of brain injury related research and has lectured extensively around the world. Her work has been featured in numerous publications, including U.S. News, Newsweek, The Economist, and more. 

Reducing the Risks of Brain Injury

In an age driven by AI, neuroscientist Adam Green, PhD, predicts an increasing demand for human creativity. Leader of a $2.5 million National Science Foundation project on creativity in STEM, he seeks to measure innovative thinking as a predictor of success, gauge how different aspects of creativity may work together, and map the seemingly miraculous process of creative ideation. Dr. Green directs the Lab for Relational Cognition at Georgetown University and is co-founder of The Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity and incoming editor-in-chief at Creativity Research Journal. Dr. Green was a BrainHealth speaker in 2019 and is back by popular demand.

Unleashing Imagination: The Creative Brain and AI

An eye surgeon and cognitive neuroscientist, Dr. Mithu Storoni advocates for a new, hyperefficient way of working. The work that matters most in our technology-dominated workplace – generating brilliant ideas, solving complex problems, and learning – can’t be manufactured like outputs on an assembly line. Our brains function like a car’s engine, with multiple gears that put the brain in optimal mode for different mental challenges – to create, solve and learn.


Hyperefficient: Optimize Your Brain to Transform the Way You Work

BrainHealth Week brings together hundreds of people from across North Texas to learn about brain health through online and in-person events for all ages.

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