Dr. Sandra Bond Chapman, Ph.D., is founder and chief director of the Center for BrainHealth®, Dee Wyly Distinguished Professor in BrainHealth, and Professor in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at The University of Texas at Dallas. She received a Doctorate in Communication Disorders from The University of Texas at Dallas, and a B.A and M.A. in Communication Disorders from University of North Texas. Graduate courses include: 1) Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders: Cognitive, Linguistic, Behavioral, and Neurological Correlates and 2) Traumatic Brain Injury in Children. Dr. Chapman’s research elucidates novel approaches to prevent mental decline and to maximize frontal lobe function after brain injuries and diseases, and how to strengthen healthy brain development across the lifespan. Her research documents that brain health and maximizing brain function is a cause that touches every person. As chief director of the Center for BrainHealth®, her vision is for the Center to become an international focal point for brain health discovery by applying the latest in brain research to faster treatments than anything that has come before. On the new frontier of brain research, Dr. Chapman is collaborating with brain scientists across the country and around the world to solve some of the most important issues concerning the brain and its health. Dr. Chapman is a cognitive neuroscientist and was awarded one of the top 25 Changemakers of 2009 by the Dallas-Fort Worth Business Journal and has been featured on CNN, Forbes Magazine, and Texas Monthly, as well as national and local news. One of 20 core scientists nationwide, Dr. Chapman was invited to participate in a National Science Foundation Think Tank Workshop to solve Higher Order Cognitive Decline in Teens in the U.S. She was just selected to become a member of the Dallas Assembly, a collection of community leaders dedicated to building a stronger and healthier economy and quality of life. With more than 120 publications and 40 funded research grants, Dr. Chapman is dedicated to translating her leading-edge research to serve as a national public health road map both in discovery of ways to maintain cognitive health into late life and build critical thinking and reasoning skill in today’s youth. Dr. Chapman was the principle member to write the first state plan for BrainHealth Fitness in Texas for adults. Her research record and brain health breakthroughs have led to nationwide recognition and selection for the Center for BrainHealth as the single Virtual Center for the National Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury Plan to link all states with the most current assessment and training for brain injury. She is a core member for NIH for selecting the central data elements for nationwide clinical trials in acquired brain injury. She has garnered major federal, state, and private research support to advance treatment for our veterans, sports concussions, healthy brain aging, adolescent reasoning and brain development, autism, and schizophrenia, among others. Dr. Chapman’s cognitive research over the past 20 years has laid the theoretical framework and empirical foundation for the development of innovative measurements of higher order reasoning [Test of Strategic Learning] and the development of brain training programs for children and adults. This work serves as the core products to launch the Center for BrainHealth’s first spinoff Company – BrainHealth Strategies, LLC. These protocols will help to maximize cognitive function in both people with healthy brains and those with brain injury, stroke, ADHD, gifted individuals, Alzheimer’s disease and other progressive brain diseases, autism, poverty, schizophrenia, and substance abuse. Dr. Chapman’s research is advancing a better understanding of how to protect and heal cognitive brain function from brain injuries and diseases, and how to strengthen healthy brain development across the lifespan. She believes brain health and maximizing brain function is a cause that touches everybody. As chief director of the Center for BrainHealth®, her vision is for Texas to become an international focal point for brain health discovery by applying the latest in brain research to faster treatments than anything that has come before. “Until recently, our whole idea of fitness stopped at the neck. Now, thanks to new breakthroughs in brain science we are discovering key ways to build a healthy brain and to repair to brain injury and disease,” said Dr. Chapman. Dr. Chapman research areas are devoted to: She has developed diagnostic measures and high-level cognitive treatment protocols to maximize cognitive function in both people with healthy brains and those with brain injury, stroke, ADHD, Alzheimer’s disease and other progressive brain diseases, autism, poverty, schizophrenia, among others. On the new frontier of brain research, Dr. Chapman is collaborating with brain scientists across the country to solve some of the most important issues concerning the brain and its health. 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