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Supporting BrainHealth Solutions for North Texas Youth
Center for BrainHealth raised $56,840 from 63 donors (11 first-time donors) during North Texas Giving Day. The funds will go towards students and teachers in under-resourced communities around the Dallas area, to train them in brain-healthy practices and strategies shown to help people thrive, whatever their individual circumstances.
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Good Sleep and Good Friends Are Good for Your Brain. UT Dallas’ New Project Will Prove It
As part of The BrainHealth Project, Center for BrainHealth at UT Dallas is leveraging MRI technology provided by the Sammons BrainHealth Imaging Center to map brain health over time and identify neural markers that indicate brain improvement.
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Brain Health, Neuroplasticity and Productivity Boosting
Julie Fratantoni, PhD, discusses how low toxic living can boost your brain health in episode 23 of the Lifelong podcast. Topics include breathing techniques, habit formation, and how to leverage behavioral science to increase focus and productivity.
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New Advisory Board Members Become Ambassadors for BrainHealth
Center for BrainHealth announced their advisory board members for 2022-2023. A slate of new members will add their deep experience, diverse achievements and community-mindedness to the broad expertise represented by the board.
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Brain Health and Peak Performance in the Workplace
HKS Research shares preliminary findings from an ongoing partner study with Center for BrainHealth, indicating that chronic multi-tasking causes distracted, shallow thinking, making individuals more prone to error, brain atrophy and chronic stress.
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Newly Funded Projects Race Toward Discovery of Brain Health Metrics
Center for BrainHealth announces three rapid-launch research initiatives, made possible by Sammons Enterprises, that seek to advance the first objective metrics of improved brain systems in response to interventions.
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How to Change Your Mind So You Can Change Your Body
BrainHealth speaker Selena Bartlett, PhD, joins Krys Boyd, host of KERA Think, to share highlights from her book Smashing Mindset: Train Your Brain to Reboot, Recharge and Reinvent Your Life.
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Lyda Hill Receives Medal of Philanthropy
Lyda Hill, accomplished businesswoman, philanthropist and BrainHealth donor, has been honored with a Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy for her dedication to science and supporting communities.
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Former Vice Chair Takes the Reins as Center for BrainHealth’s Advisory Board Chair
Center for BrainHealth announced new leadership for its advisory board. Starting September 1, David Jacobs will succeed Roger Gault as board chair, and Lindsay Wilson will assume the vice chair position.
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BrainHealth Research Demonstrates the Impact of Aging on Brain Function
Using calibrated functional magnetic resonance imaging (cfMRI), BrainHealth researchers tested their hypothesis that the aging process has damaging effects on the brain's underlying neuro-vascular coupling (NVC) system.
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Make Your Brain SMARTER: An Interview With Dr. Sandra Chapman
Selena Bartlett meets with Sandi Chapman, and the neuroscientists discuss the future of brain health, the origins of Center for BrainHealth, and stories of brain's miraculous potential to restore itself after injury or disease.
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HKS and Center for BrainHealth Launch BrainHealthy Workplace Partnership
The architectural firm expects the collaboration with Center for BrainHealth will inform their flexible workplace policies while empowering employees to boost collaboration and innovation through brain-healthy practices.
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National Guard Advances Warfighter Brain Fitness
The National Guard Bureau has taken a bold step toward securing and enhancing Warfighter brain health, and ensuring cognitive combat readiness with the launch of a new initiative to measure, track and improve cognitive performance and psychological well-being – the Warfighter Brain Fitness program.
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HKS Partners With Center for BrainHealth to Help Employees Thrive
HKS is partnering with The University of Texas at Dallas’ Center for BrainHealth on a study to improve the way the firm’s employees work, collaborate and innovate, both individually and as an organization.
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Three Simple Rules to Raise Kind Kids
Kindness training, like an intervention delivered in the recent BrainHealth pilot study Kind Minds with Moozie, has been shown to be effective in helping parents implement effective and actionable habits for boosting kindness in daily life.