Virtual Events
Psychology and Neuroscience of Human Values
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Professor, author and podcaster Daniel Krawczyk, PhD, studies reasoning, decision-making, human performance, and the relationships between the brain and behavior during these processes. His cognitive neuroscience research lab focuses on understanding reasoning and decision making using a diversity of methods, including behavioral studies, machine learning, imaging and brain stimulation. He has led multiple federally funded studies evaluating thinking and cognitive performance.
Human Molecular Neuroscience Insight into the Next Generation of Pain Therapeutics
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The Center for Advanced Pain Studies (CAPS) at UTD focuses on developing non-opioid pain therapeutics. Theodore Price, PhD, will discuss how his lab collaborates to profile the molecular composition of pain circuits in humans, and how they change when people have chronic pain, describing how this data can help validate targets and develop non-opioid pain therapeutics and seven companies working to achieve commercialization of these ideas and products.
The Neuroscience of Emotional Fitness
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The enormous increase in mental health disorders around the world demands a new view of brain health that satisfies the 4Ps: personalized, preventive, predictive and participatory. Paul Zak, PhD, defines emotional fitness, shares research that has established the 4Ps for emotional health, and discusses findings from the launch of a scalable real-time app that measures emotional fitness neurologically and guides users to improved emotional fitness.
The Pit Stop Model of Brain Care: A Lifelong Brain Health Service Line
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The current approach to brain care is largely reactive, considered only when patients or families raise concerns. This approach is not working, and the more money is spent on it, the greater disability is generated. Alvaro Pascual-Leone, MD, PhD, proposes a transformative approach, leveraging technology and learning from car racing to establish a “pit stop model of brain care,” focused on a Brain Health Service Line designed to support individuals across the lifespan.