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AWS Champions Program 2026

Healthy Women

Layten Praytor

Pinky finger workouts for brain health? Antihistamines for hot flashes? Protein for … everything? Here’s what the experts have to say about some of the viral health trends on social media.

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Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas is using AWS to bring decades of cognitive research out of the laboratory and deliver brain health assessments, training and coaching at much greater scale.Historically, the open-ended cognitive assessments of their BrainHealth Index metric could require more than 20 minutes of expert scoring for each response. Virtual social coaching required about $1,500 in dedicated hardware per participant, while research information was distributed across production databases, paper records and manual exports.The Center had already reached a few thousand research participants, service members, veterans and other populations, but these constraints were limiting the rate at which they could expand access to the assessments, training and coaching. Read more at Government Technology

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Headshot of Jennifer Zientz, against a backdrop of glass neuron sculptures at Center for BrainHealth in Dallas, Texas.

Jennifer Zientz, MS, CCC-SLP

Director of Programs

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Center for BrainHealth Partners with Dr. Krystal Sexton as Senior Advisor, Workplace Initiatives to Advance Global Brain Health Strategy

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