Sandra Bond Chapman, PhD, Founder and Chief Director of the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas, Dee Wyly Distinguished University Professor, and author of Make Your Brain Smarter, is committed to promoting brain health fitness, developing futuristic thinkers, and helping individuals, young or old, think smarter. Dr. Chapman has a remarkable gift for translating the complex world of cognitive neuroscience into easy to understand language. For the last 30 years, she has focused her research on gaining a better understanding of how to evaluate and achieve optimal brain performance through preserving frontal lobe function, the area of the brain responsible for reasoning, planning and decision-making. With more than 40 funded research grants and 200 publications to her credit, she is recognized as a leading thinker, transforming popular misconceptions about what smart is, when we are the smartest, and how to repair the brain after injury or in the face of disease.