Dr. Lori Cook is passionate about translating cutting-edge research discoveries into practical tools to educate, empower, and equip students of all ages and levels to reach their highest brain potential. Drawing on more than two decades of research focused on children and teens, she works to improve brain health and educational outcomes for youth and college students.
Dr. Cook has played a key role in the development of new assessment and intervention tools for use with various youth and adult populations, with more recent work examining the benefit and application of cognitive training protocols to promote higher-order cognitive skills, particularly in adolescents.
Watch this 3-minute video of Lori Cook, PhD, CCC-SLP, and Jennifer Zientz, MS, CCC-SLP, priming the BrainHealth Week audience to apply neuroscience learnings in creating personal and actionable takeaways that can help improve brain health.
What does the latest research reveal about women’s brain health, and how can we translate that information into real-world impact?
At the Empowering Women conference during BrainHealth Week 2025, Dr. Cook shared simple, science-backed strategies to strengthen the brain networks that power learning, leadership and daily life.
Grounded in Center for BrainHealth's SMART™ brain training, these practical strategies can help anyone engage the brain's frontal networks in learning and in leading the people around them toward better brain health.
Hear why adolescents and young adults need personalized follow-up monitoring and support even after the initial recovery from brain injury.
During a recent Frontiers of BrainHealth lecture, Lori Cook, PhD, urged researchers, medical practitioners and families not to assume young people will respond to treatments for traumatic brain injury (TBI) like "little adults," instead recommending unique interventions and research-based strategies designed to exercise neuroplasticity in real life and help improve prognosis for this population.