2025 Top Takeaways
We have agency over our own brain health.
Center for BrainHealth's third annual BrainHealth Week brought together North Texans to learn about brain health and celebrate the potential each one of us holds.
Explore takeaways and videos from the week, including talks on women's brain health and optimal brain performance, curated to empower proactive brain fitness through simple daily practices that make a difference.
Dive deeper into top takeaways with our printable summary: Use to follow along with the videos, and fill in your own action items. Download & print
These steps will flex your frontal lobe.
Key takeaways require deeper-level thinking, help make learning meaningful and combat information overload. Synthesizing information helps increase retention and inspire “Aha! Moments,” strengthening frontal networks in the brain.
Track your takeaways using our fillable pdf card. Start with top takeaways, then generate your own questions, ideas and even action items that can empower you to apply new learning in your life.
In the above 3-minute video from the Empowering Women conference, Lori Cook, PhD, and Jennifer Zientz share why creating takeaways and action items is important and how science-based SMART™ Brain Training strategies can help.
Pausing to engage with the world is one of our most essential brain functions, shaping how we manage stress, experience joy, connect with others and hone our concentration skills. Taking time to focus on works of art helps us practice seeing the world in new ways.
"We didn't learn how to listen in school, and we certainly didn't learn how to observe – and yet 80% of the information you gain is through observation."
— Bonnie Pitman, Director of Brain-Art Innovations
Energize your thinking with observations from a powerful collection of photographs, shown during BrainHealth Week 2025 at Neuroscapes: Mapping the Mind Through Photography.
In the above 3-minute video, Bonnie Pitman, former director of the Dallas Museum of Art, reveals how practices that motivate close observation and creative thinking shape brain health and help preserve memories.
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