UT Dallas' Center for Vital Longevity Expands Research Focus to Include Children and Teenagers

The University of Texas at Dallas’ Center for Vital Longevity (CVL) is broadening its research focus on optimizing cognitive health across the lifespan to now include studies involving children and teenagers. Dr. Michael Rugg, CVL director and Distinguished Chair in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, emphasized the center's longstanding interest in exploring changes throughout life and highlighted the addition of two new research groups.

These expansions, he noted, strengthen and extend CVL's mission of comprehensively understanding cognitive and brain changes over the entire lifespan. Dr. Rugg emphasized the importance of studying optimal brain development during childhood and early adolescence, citing its potential implications for cognitive health in later life.