Sandra Bond Chapman
Professor
Founder and Chief Director, Center for BrainHealth;
Dee Wyly Distinguished Chair in Brain Health
PhD, The University of Texas at Dallas
Brain Plasticity & Neurocognitive Rehabilitation; Brain Injury, Brain Disease and Healthy Aging
BH 3.426
214-905-3007 
About Sandra Bond Chapman
Sandra Bond Chapman, Ph.D., Founder and Chief Director of the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas and author of Make Your Brain Smarter, is committed to maximizing cognitive potential across the entire lifespan. As a cognitive neuroscientist with more than 40 funded research grants, Dr. Chapman's scientific study elucidates and applies novel approaches to advance creative and critical thinking, strengthen healthy brain development, and incite innovation throughout life.
Dr. Chapman collaborates with scientists across the country and around the world to solve some of the most important issues concerning the brain and its health. On the frontier of brain research, her scientific study melds interdisciplinary expertise to better understand how to evaluate and achieve optimal brain performance through preserving frontal lobe function, the area of the brain responsible for reasoning, planning, decision-making and judgment. Dr. Chapman coined the term "brainomics" to define the high economic cost of poor brain performance, and she sees the brain as the most significant path to raise the standard of living globally. Dr. Chapman is actively studying the informative pathways to brain change in health, injury and disease; identifying novel non-pharmacological and pharmacological treatment approaches, and testing the effect of brain training to exploit brain potential.
A renown cognitive neuroscience expert, she is discovering ways to build resilience, regain cognitive function and retrain the brain to maximize the immense potential of our most vital organ. Dedicated to improving lives today and changing how the public thinks and acts about the brain and its health, Dr. Chapman is committed to promoting brain health fitness, developing futuristic thinkers, and helping individuals, young or old, think smarter.
With federal, state and private philanthropic support, she is pushing the limits of cognitive capacity in healthy adults of all ages - teens, young adults, Boomers, and Traditionalists, business executives, educators, veterans, athletes who have experienced concussions, those with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Asperger's and many others.
Research Interests
Dr. Chapman's research goal is to optimize brain performance in brain health, brain injury and brain disease, giving specific focus to frontal lobe function.
Healthy Brain Development:
- Extending brain health span to match increasing lifespan expectancy
- Building brain resilience
- Bettering decision-making
- Enriching complex brain function
- Enhancing teen reasoning
- ADHD
- Autism
- Alzheimer's disease
- Addiction
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Post Traumatic Stress
- Mild Cognitive Impairment
- Schizophrenia
- Concussion
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Stroke
- Brain tumor
- Chemo brain
Brain Disease and Disorder:
Brain Injury:
Recent Publications
Chapman, S.B., Anand, R., Bartz, E., Keebler, M., Lu, H., & Hart, Jr. J. (in press, 2012). Exercising the Mind and Body: Aging and Brain Health. Journal of Gerontology Medical and Biological Sciences.
Chapman, S. B., Gamino, J. F., & Anand, R. (2012). Higher-order strategic gist reasoning in adolescence. In Reyna, V.F., Chapman, S.B., Confrey, J. and Dougherty, M. (Eds.). The Adolescent Brain: Learning, Reasoning, and Decision Making (pp 123-151). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
Vas, A.K., Chapman, S.B., Cook, L.G., Elliott, A.C., & Keebler, M. (2011). Higher-order reasoning training years after traumatic brain injury in adults. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 26(3), 224-239.
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