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The School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences - NEXUS Quarterly, December 2021
BBS News
 
Dr. Linda Thibodeau
Audiology Expert Examines COVID-19 Challenges for Hearing-Impaired
“COVID-19 has demonstrated how reliant we are on visual cues to correctly interpret speech and how stressful it is to operate with reduced sources of information when we don’t have facial expressions to work with,” said Dr. Linda Thibodeau. Read more »
 
Chronic Pain Researchers Pursue New Path to Localized Relief
Chronic Pain Researchers Pursue New Path to Localized Relief
“We don’t often get opportunities to work on a target like this that is so clearly validated in humans, where if you turn it off, you don’t feel pain, and if you turn it up, you feel too much pain,” said Dr. Gregory Dussor. Read more »
 
Reducing Snoring May Help Put Brain Health Risks to Rest
Reducing Snoring May Help Put Brain Health Risks to Rest
Researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas and their colleagues have discovered that breathing rates while sleeping can be used to distinguish cognitively normal people from those who have mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer’s disease. Read more »
 
Fulbright Scholar Works for Brighter Future in Health Policies
Fulbright Scholar Works for Brighter Future in Health Policies
“My neuroscience classes and the opportunity to start in a research lab as early as the summer before freshman year really set up a trajectory of continuing to pursue research through my undergraduate studies,” said Nikitha Vicas. Read more »
 
What To Do About Tinnitus, the Chronic Ringing in Your Ears
What To Do About Tinnitus, the Chronic Ringing in Your Ears
“Tinnitus can be a sign of hearing loss,” said Dr. Angela Shoup, BS’89, MS’92, PhD’94, executive director of the Callier Center for Communication Disorders at The University of Texas at Dallas. Read more »
 
 
Faculty Awarded Research Grants
 
Social Media Spotlights
Did you know the gray matter in a pregnant woman’s brain can shrink, making the brain appear “smaller”?
Did you know the gray matter in a pregnant woman’s brain can shrink, making the brain appear “smaller”?
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Congratulations to Sofia Babool, BS Neuroscience ’22, who recently launched an already successful tutoring service startup, Bright Owl!
Congratulations to neuroscience senior Sofia Babool, who recently launched an already successful tutoring service startup, Bright Owl!
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The Center for Children and Families has established a program in an effort to increase participation, by underrepresented groups, in early learning research.
The Center for Children and Families has established a program to increase participation by underrepresented groups in early learning research.
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BBS Alumni Notes
Naushaba Abedin
Naushaba Abedin

Naushaba Abedin, BS’19, is a senior clinical programs coordinator at Premier Management Company. Combining her knowledge from her bachelor’s degree in Speech Language Pathology and Child Development from BBS, along with her master’s coursework in Healthcare Management, she is working on a clinical wellness program at Premier to improve healthcare literacy and disease management to increase overall patient education and improve patient outcomes. In her current role, she recently became a part of a new initiative that provides affordable healthcare access to underserved communities in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Abedin believes that healthcare equity is essential to improve the quality of life for all segments of our community and the population at large.
Leo Estevez
Leo Estevez

Neuroscience alumnus Leo Estevez, MS’09, has spent the majority of his career at Texas Instruments working on technology, innovation, and engineering initiatives at Texas Instruments. The recent retiree has started a new entrepreneurial adventure, VineCrafters, applying his education in both neuroscience and engineering to wine making and farm innovation. His wine is currently available for purchase at FRESH by Brookshires store in Fate, Texas. VineCrafters Winery in Rockwall, TX is open Fridays and Saturdays with live music and wood fired pizzas!
Aarron Phensy, PhD
Aarron Phensy, PhD

Aarron Phensy, PhD’20, is a postdoctoral psychiatry fellow at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine (UCSF). His PhD dissertation focused on the connections between oxidative stress, the mitochondria, and schizophrenia. At UCSF, he is working to understand the cellular and circuit components responsible for the generation of neural oscillations during cognitive processing and how this may be disrupted in mental illness.
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