Functioning of the brain is quiet complex. The UT Dallas Center for BrainHealth has taken up the mission of understanding, protecting and healing this unique and precious organ of mankind. Neuroscientists at the Center for Brain Health are serving as the ‘tip of the spear’ in developing educational programs and interventions that can dramatically improve the lives of millions of our citizens. What is unique about the Center for Brain Health is not only a dedication to discovering how the brain reads, calculates and reasons mathematically, attends to the environment, thinks critically and solves problems, but a focus on using this information to actually teach children to become proficient learners.

The center is also researching to find new breakthroughs in the field of autism, attention deficit disorder, Alzheimer’s and other significant brain issues. It has pioneered a unique horizontal approach which uncovers the commonalities in brain repair. The mission of the center is to utilize the cutting edge technologies in brain science with the intellectual talent of scientists and clinicians and advance cognitive treatment and brain repair across the diseases

The center aims at understanding the brain’s ability to restore or protect healthy brain function, protect the brain from unnecessary mental decline and heal the brain through treatments that regenerate brain function. Its board members comprises of a Leadership board that has as its members, Sallie and Frederic Asche, Jr.Claudia and Dennis Berman, Toni and Norman Brinker, Dianne Cash, Theresa and David Disiere, Patsy Donors, John Harbin, Matrice Ellis-Kirk, among others.