Science and medicine have traditionally focused on measuring brain decline and diagnosing brain injury and disease. Measuring holistic brain performance over time and understanding the brain’s upward potential is the next frontier.
The BrainHealth® Pulse delivers a science-backed snapshot derived from our BrainHealth Index, a comprehensive measure of clarity, emotional balance and connectedness. While the full index uses validated assessments, the Pulse distills its power into 19 questions proven to reflect meaningful changes in your overall score.
What you measure, you can improve. Your Pulse gives you a clear baseline to improve your brain health.
It’s quick. It’s rigorous. It’s actionable.
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To advance understanding of the brain’s upward potential, Center for BrainHealth launched The BrainHealth Project, a large-scale longitudinal study designed to better understand and strengthen brain health. The study aims to enroll more than 100,000 generally healthy adults and follow them for at least 10 years. Participants complete the BrainHealth Index every 6 months to monitor and track their brain health trajectory over time. They also gain access to proactive brain training with a science-backed toolkit, combining online training with live virtual coaching.
The Project's online micro-learning modules feature our proprietary Strategic Memory Advanced Reasoning Tactics (SMART™) brain training and education on topics like sleep, stress management and social relationships to help participants understand how their brain works and empower them to build brain-healthy habits.
Three Major Goals
- Assess factors associated with brain health and performance over the adult lifespan using the multidimensional BrainHealth Index to measure change - whether gains or losses - in healthy adults.
- Examine the impact of evidence-based cognitive strategies and lifestyle interventions on brain health changes.
- Elucidate the mechanisms associated with brain health gains or losses using large-scale behavioral data and neuroimaging sub-studies.
BrainHealth Project Imaging Sub-Study
A subset of Project participants also completes annual neuroimaging at the Sammons BrainHealth Imaging Center at UT Dallas, allowing capture of neural metrics associated with changes – particularly gains - in brain health and performance.
The uniqueness of this data set lies in its real-world longitudinal design, intervention-based approach, and integration of diverse data types, enabling researchers to move beyond correlation and better understand the factors that drive changes in brain health. The ultimate goal is to create predictive models that inform personalized interventions and make brain health tracking as routine and accessible as monitoring heart rate or sleep.
The BrainHealth Index (BHI) is a holistic, multidimensional metric designed to measure and track brain health and performance. It is optimized for precision brain health, rather than diagnostic classification, visualizing an individual’s brain health as a whole while also reflecting multiple paths to boost brain health over time to guide goal-setting.
- Takes approximately 1 hour to complete (can be divided into shorter segments completed over 2 weeks), accessible via web or mobile app for iOS/Android
- Integrates core measures of complex cognition with both novel and established assessments spanning daily life/lifestyle, mental health, social domains, and purpose
- Provides an overall composite score and scores for contributing factors: Clarity (cognitive function), Emotional Balance (mental well-being), and Connectedness (social and purpose-driven engagement)
- Serves as a personalized metric rather than comparing to others – i.e., “you against you over time” – emphasizing sensitivity to within-person change
- Captures both gains and losses across domains that are known to respond differentially to cognitive training, lifestyle modification, and behavioral intervention