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Connecting with a good joke activates the brain’s pleasure-and-reward center, elevating endorphins, dopamine and serotonin, a powerful mood-regulating neurotransmitter.  

Laugh to Light up Your Brain

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People often gravitate toward easy options, but one-dimensional thinking stifles fluid intelligence — how flexibly one applies learning in new ways. 

Expand Your Mental Resources

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Continuing to challenge your brain throughout your life nurtures positive changes through neuroplasticity and the formation of new neural pathways.

Thrive Through Lifelong Learning

Center for BrainHealth leads scientific research to enhance and restore the brain. Learn how to exercise your brain to work better and faster today!

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Frontiers of BrainHealth

World-renowned expert in the brain mechanisms of addictive disorders, Dr. Francesca Filbey is leading groundbreaking research to examine how memory and sleep problems interact as a result of cannabis use. Despite popular interest in potential benefits and side effects of cannabis, this question remains under-investigated. The potential societal impact of this research is high, given that addictive disorders cause an extensive burden in terms of morbidity, mortality, and public health costs, yet treatment strategies have only proven modestly effective. 

NEW – Cannabis, Memory and Sleep

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BrainHealth Week 2025

Be among the first to experience the architecture and collections at the amazing new Edith and Peter O’Donnell, Jr. Athenaeum at The University of Texas at Dallas. As part of BrainHealth Week 2025, Center for BrainHealth and the Crow Museum of Asian Art invite you to an event, specially curated for young professionals, celebrating the connection between art and brain health. Space is limited. Tickets for this event are $35.

Night at the Museum

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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

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. 

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Helpful vs. Harmful Quiz

ARE YOUR DAILY HABITS TOXIC TO YOUR BRAIN HEALTH?

How often are you in back-to-back meetings or tasks without breaks in between?

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Instead of focusing on how many things you checked off your list today, shift towards the measures that matter most — Were you more innovative? More purpose-driven? More socially fulfilled?

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