Jennifer Zientz

Head of Clinical Services
Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas

Jennifer Zientz is Associate Director and Head of Clinical Services at the Brain Performance Institute, the translational research arm of the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas. She studies healthy cognitive function – with an emphasis in high performance – across the lifespan.

Her work focuses on cognitive resilience-building and regeneration by administering assessments that establish benchmarks of high-level cognitive function and training elite thinkers to reach beyond their perceived potential.

She facilitates high-performance brain training that was developed by BrainHealth neuroscientists and clinicians, with forward-thinking individuals and groups including C-Suite executives, executive leadership teams, active duty special ops teams, veterans and first responders.

She leads Brain Performance Institute teams that execute high-performance assessments and brain training. She is responsible for the development and oversight of training certification programs. Jennifer also administers assessments to study the cognitive effects of degenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease and Frontotemporal dementia, and the short- and long-term effects of concussion.

Jennifer has published papers in numerous peer-reviewed journals and is a frequent speaker on human cognitive performance development.

Jennifer obtained her Bachelor of Science degree from The University of Texas at Austin and her Master of Science degree from The University of Texas at Dallas.