Dr. Denise C. Park, founding director of the Center for Vital Longevity (CVL) and Principal Investigator of the Aging Mind Lab (AML), retired from The University of Texas at Dallas on May 31, 2025, leaving behind a lasting legacy in advanci…
Denise C. Park, Distinguished University Chair in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, began studying cognitive in her freshman year in college, and since then, she has never stopped. As a young scientist, Dr. Park realized that almost nothing wa…
Assistant ProfessorBehavioral and Brain SciencesUniversity of Texas at Dallas Assistant ProfessorBehavioral and Brain SciencesUniversity of Texas at Dallas ProfessorDepartment of RadiologyJohns Hopkins University Assistant ProfessorDepartme…
Researchers in cultural neuroscience investigate how immersion in a cultural context can play a role in determining both the structure and function of the brain. Just as different types of childhood experiences and expertise can affect the
Park, D.C., Hennessee, J.P., Smth, E.T., Chan, M.Y., Dakanali, M. Farrell, M.E., Liu, P., Lu., H, Rofsky, N., Sun, X., Tamminga, C., Moore, W., Rofsky, N., Kennedy, K.M., Rodrigue, K., & Wig, G.S. (2025). The Dallas Lifespan Brain Study: A
Email: Evan.Smith1@utdallas.eduPhone: 972-883-3774 Evan received his BA in Psychology from SUNY Purchase College in 2010, and his MS in Applied Cognition and Neuroscience from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2015. He attained his PhD i…
The Synapse Project examined mental engagement in older adults, participants who were randomly assigned to either high-challenge (learning photography, quilting, or both) or low-challenge (socializing or performing simple cognitive tasks) a…
Former Park Lab: Research Assistant Former Park Lab: Administrative Associate Research Associate, Post-Doctoral FellowDepartment of Nuclear MedicineUniversity Hospital CologneFormer Park Lab: Graduate Student and Post-Doctoral Fellow Associ…