Episode 6 dr sandra bond chapman on making your brain smarter
Sandra Bond Chapman is a cognitive neuroscientist, founder and chief director of the Center for BrainHealth, Dee Wyly Distinguished Professor in Brain Health, and a professor in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at The University of Texas at Dallas.
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- Episode 6 dr sandra bond chapman on making your brain smarter
- Flex your cortex 7 secrets to turbocharge your brain sandra bond chapman ph d tedxbayarea
- Career
- Research
- Education
- Memberships
- References
Flex your cortex 7 secrets to turbocharge your brain sandra bond chapman ph d tedxbayarea
Career
Chapman began her career in the 1970s as a speech pathologist, where she often worked with children diagnosed with severe autism. During this time, Chapman encountered several children able to solve complex puzzles despite their hindering diagnosis. This contradiction sparked Chapman's interest in the brain’s potential. Chapman's fascination the brain's modifiability later evolved into the idea of a multidisciplinary center housing brain researchers and therapists working collectively to prevent, arrest, and reverse brain traumas. Only 20 years after it was first conceptualized, Chapman opened the Center for BrainHealth in Dallas, Texas. Chapman continues to serve as the Center for BrainHealth's chief director.
Research
Chapman’s cognitive research has laid the theoretical framework and empirical foundation for the development of measurements of higher order reasoning [Test of Strategic Learning] and the development of brain training programs for children and adults. Her research elucidates novel approaches to maximize cognitive function in people with healthy brains as well as those with brain injury, stroke, ADHD, autism, schizophrenia, substance abuse, and progressive brain diseases like Alzheimer's disease.
Chapman's research has resulted in more than 120 publications, nearly 60 funded research grants, and has served as a national public health road for maintaining cognitive fitness and building critical thinking and reasoning skills in adolescents. Chapman was the principal member writing the first state plan for BrainHealth fitness for adults. Her research record and brain health breakthroughs led to selection of the Center for BrainHealth as the single Virtual Center for the National Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury Plan, which links states with the most current assessment and training for brain injury. She is a core member for NIH’s selection process of central data elements for nationwide clinical trials on acquired brain injury. Throughout her career, Chapman has received major federal, state, and private research support to advance the treatment of veterans, sports-related brain injuries, concussions, autism, schizophrenia, adolescent reasoning, and brain development, among others.
Education
Ph.D. from University of Texas at Dallas
Doctor of Philosophy in Communication DisordersReference in Aphasia: Processing of Nouns and Pronouns in Narrative DiscourseMay, 1986M.A. from University of North Texas
Master of Arts in Communication DisordersAugust, 1974B.A. from University of North Texas
Bachelor of Arts Degree in Speech PathologyDecember, 1973Memberships
Chapman is a member of the following organizations: