Sandra Chapman: Using innovative thinking, and brain training, we can rewire the brain at every level

Sandra Bond Chapman, PhD What is your cur­rent job title and orga­ni­za­tion, and what excites you the most about work­ing there?  As the founder and chief director at the Center for BrainHealth at UT-Dallas, what gets me excited every day is being on the forefront of defining and encouraging cognitive brain health fitness for people of all ages. We are identifying measures of brain health and what it takes to achieve it for healthy brains, injured brains and diseased brains. It is just as important to care for your brain when it is healthy as when it is diseased or injured. Please tell us about your interest in applied brain science. What areas are you most interested in? What motivated you to pursue work in your field? My research takes a lifespan approach to harness the power of the frontal lobes to make cognitive and physiological improvements to the brain through high performance brain training. Most research focuses on what’s wrong with the brain, but when I realized how quickly we could translate research discoveries into solutions to help people think smarter, I knew I had to establish a center to make that possible. What is one important thing you are working on now, and where can people learn more about it? We have just launched the Brain Performance Institute, which will become the clinical arm for our research. Through the Institute we will disseminate the validated training programs being developed at the Center for BrainHealth. We hope to reach more than...
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