Brain Health Dynamic Duo | Dr. Jennifer Bramen & Dr. Karen Miller
The Think Neuro podcast from Pacific Neuroscience Institute takes you into the clinic, operating room and laboratory with doctors and surgeons who are tackling the most challenging brain diseases and disorders. Host: Anthony Effinger
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Episode 32: Show Notes
Strange though it may seem, we can tone our brain tissue the same way we tone our muscles. The fitness of our gray matter depends on how well we take care of ourselves. If we exercise, manage our stress, get plenty of sleep, and eat right, our brain function improves. We add more, better brain tissue. Dr. Jennifer Bramen and Dr. Karen Miller work as a team at the Pacific Brain Health Center to help people keep their brains fit, especially as we age.
Dr. Bramen is a neuroscientist who specializes in brain imaging. Dr. Karen Miller is a geropsychologist and clinical neuropsychologist with three decades of experience dealing with aging brains. They work together to develop brain health lifestyle programs that combine physical exercise and brain training to stave of neurological decline in older adults and help people with healthy brains keep them that way. Listen to this podcast to learn how they combine their specialties to get results.
About Dr. Bramen & Dr. Miller
Jennifer Bramen holds a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and completed her postdoctoral research fellowship at the Laboratory of Neuroimaging (LONI). She was an Assistant Research Neuroscientist at the UCLA’s Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging and taught in the Neuroimaging Training Program. She has also spent years conducting research and delivering coaching and other interventions in the private sector. In addition to conducting Phase 0 research in industry, Dr. Bramen delivered an individualized, brain-based coaching program to clients for five years.
Karen Miller, PhD, Senior Director, Brain Wellness and Lifestyle Programs, is a leading national expert in the area of Memory/Cognitive Training. With more than three decades of experience in the field of aging and memory as a geropsychologist and clinical neuropsychologist, Dr. Miller’s role with PNI Foundation is to develop and direct the implementation of Lifestyle Programs aimed at providing a Roadmap to Brain Wellness.