Bart Rypma, PhD
Dr. Bart Rypma’s research is aimed at exploring the cognitive and neurobiological mechanisms of human memory and how these are affected by aging and disease. He uses functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to observe the activity of younger and older adults as they perform cognitive tasks.
Dr. Rypma has published extensively on the cognitive and neurobiological mechanisms of human memory, including high-profile publications in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Nature Neuroscience, Cerebral Cortex and Neuroimage.
Baseline Cerebral Metabolism Predicts Fatigue and Cognition in Multiple Sclerosis Patients
Individuals with multiple sclerosis have lower brain oxygen metabolism; a measurement shown to be predictive of fatigue and cognitive dysfunction.
BOLD Hemodynamic Response Function Changes Significantly with Healthy Aging
There is a significant difference in the brain’s blood-oxygen response between healthy older and younger individuals.
Reexamination of “Release-From-Pi” Phenomena: Recall Accuracy Does Not Recover after a Semantic Switch
The memory of words from different lists is improved when the words are semantically different or have different meanings.
Dr. Bart Rypma was recently awarded the Major Extramural Grant Award (MEGA) for Development of Calibrated fMRI at the UT Dallas Center for BrainHealth Imaging Center. Dr. Rypma’s research is aimed at exploring the cognitive and neurobiological mechanisms of human memory and how those mechanisms are affected by aging and disease. Dr. Rypma is a professor in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at The University of Texas at Dallas and The UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas School of Psychiatry.