Media Highlights

Media Highlights include current, general interest media coverage of BBS students, faculty, staff and leadership and their achievements. Archives of previous articles back to 2017 are also available.

The Dallas Morning News

UTD Unveils ‘Brain Recharge Station.’ How Might It Help Students?

Feb 26, 2025

At the unveiling, experts discussed how different colors and lighting conditions can influence mood and cognitive function, offering practical advice for optimizing home and workspaces.

New Dimensions

Chronic Pain Researcher Provides Better Opportunities For Students

Jan, 2025

My research isn’t just focused on what causes pain, but rather it’s to help individuals who experience all levels of pain find a better fit with the drugs that can help them. A lot of the drugs people use either don’t work well or may work too well, which can lead to a dependency or tolerance. Trying to understand those mechanisms is what my team and I do. — Dr. Michael Burton, associate professor at the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

A New, Non-Opioid Pain Drug Is Here. Getting It to Patients Could Be Agony.

Jan 31, 2025

Accidental overdoses involving an opioid remain high. Nearly 82,000 people in the U.S. died that way in 2022. Almost 15,000 of those deaths involved a prescription opioid. — Dr. Theodore Price, professor of neuroscience at the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

KWTX Channel 10

Finding Your Voice: Understanding Spasmodic Dysphonia

Jan 27, 2025

“Sometimes people with spasmodic dysphonia, they have a sensory trick, where they can put their fingers on a certain place on their face or neck, and the symptoms are relieved, and why this happens we don’t know.” — Dr. Saul Frankford, professor in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing at the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences.