Center for BrainHealth

The Center provides academic training and houses specialists in, among many others, Alzheimer's disease, traumatic brain injury (TBI), healthy brain aging, multiple sclerosis, autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), stroke, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

To help raise awareness of and funding for research underway at the Center for BrainHealth, a number of proponent groups have formed.

[4] Research initiatives include: •Expand the knowledge of improving of corporate environments by increasing workforce mental productivity, looking for ways to strengthen the brain's frontal lobes, take advantage of dramatic brain plasticity as people age, and challenge mental talents and capacities.

[11] In 2007, businessman and philanthropist T. Boone Pickens donated $5 million to the Center for BrainHealth to fund educational and research initiatives in the area of brain science.

[14] Originally constructed in 1970, the redesign and remodel was an extensive undertaking that began in June 2005, completed in September 2006, with the building formally dedicated on January 26, 2007.

The third floor houses clinically based research projects, including a facility for individuals to undergo brain fitness checkups for discovering ways to prevent memory decline and a place for adults and children to participate in research aimed at learning more about how to strengthen brain function after injury or disease.