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Team’s Online Project Aims To Expand Scope of Psychology Research
“One of our goals is to have something that parents can complete with their children from home, or from community centers or libraries, making it possible to reach a broader range of families than we have in the past,” said Dr. Candice Mills. Read more » |
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FDA Approves Stroke Rehabilitation Therapy Created at UT Dallas
“The first studies of our technique in humans showed that by adding vagus nerve stimulation (VNS), patients can recover to a degree that they would not otherwise — even if they start 10 years after their stroke,” said Dr. Michael Kilgard. Read more » |
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Double Empathy, Explained
“Researchers are finding ways to probe the dynamics of social interactions instead of studying the isolated behavior of people lying in a brain scanner or sitting at a computer,” said Dr. Noah Sasson. Read more » |
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COVID-19 Creates Hearing, Balance Disorders, Worsens Tinnitus
In addition to loss of taste and respiratory distress, researchers have found evidence that COVID-19 also leads to hearing and balance disorders, as well as aggravating tinnitus symptoms. Read more » |
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Pain Researchers Pinpoint Female-Specific Migraine Triggers
Scientists from The University of Texas at Dallas Center for Advanced Pain Studies (CAPS) have demonstrated a link between the hormone prolactin and the protein calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) in mechanisms that may contribute to migraine in females. Read more » |
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Program To Expand Diversity in Developmental Psychology Research
“As we diversify the scientists, we’re also diversifying the science — that is, who is being studied in developmental research,” said Dr. Mandy Maguire. “When those scientists can bring their voices to research on their own communities, that research becomes so much better. It seems like a win-win across everything,” she said. Read more » |
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| Social Media Spotlights |
Congratulations to Dr. Salena Brody (middle), pictured with Dr. Kristen Kennedy and Dean Steven Small, on receiving this year’s Aage Møller Teaching Award!
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Dr. Yune Lee investigates the power of music in speech and language processing.
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Congratulations to all 2020 and 2021 BBS graduates, who were celebrated in-person in August!
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| BBS Launches Podcast |
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Tune in to the first episode of BBS Mindful Minutes, a student-run podcast! Part 1 of Back on Campus: How to Navigate Through “The New Normal” is now on Anchor, Spotify and other outlets. |
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| BBS Alumni Note |
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Elica Rahdar
Elica Rahdar BA’03, PhD’10 is a senior policy analyst for the office of Santa Clara (California) County Supervisor Otto Lee. She oversees policy related to health and hospital systems in the County of Santa Clara as well as policies impacting children, families and women. She was recently appointed to serve on the board of the Santa Clara Commission on the Status of Women, which aims to eliminate discrimination and prejudice against women. Prior to her work as a policy analyst, she was chief operating officer of 3TEN8, an artifical intelligence startup she co-founded in 2014 with fellow UT Dallas alumnus Miro Salem BS’05. 3TEN8 was voted no. 1 AI startup by Mobile Operators and Investors. Additionally, she is a member of the Emerge California class of 2019, a former board member of the ACLU of Northern California, and a fellow and fellows manager of Organizing for Action, a nonprofit organization and community organizing project that advocated for the agenda of former U.S. President Barack Obama. Following her graduation from UT Dallas, Rahdar was a postdoctoral scholar at the Developmental Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of California, Los Angeles, where the focus of her research was on characterizing the neural mechanisms underlying adolescent behavior with the intent of informing policy. |
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| Upcoming Events |
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How Our Brain Gets Things Done — CVL Booziotis Lecture
Wednesday, Nov. 10 | 7 p.m. | Virtual Event |
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Just In Time Career Fair
Wednesday, Nov. 17 | 11 a.m. | Virtual Event |
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| BBS Center Highlight |
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The Center for BrainHealth, located in Dallas, is focused on understanding, protecting and healing the human brain. The center works through research programs to understand 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. A key part of the center is the Brain Performance Institute, which provides scientifically validated programs and assessments that enhance individual brain performance and health.
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