Brain health program aims to help police deal better with stressful situations [Today.com]

Samantha Sangenito 7/12/174:00 AM

A new initiative is helping police officers sharpen and exercise the most powerful weapon at their disposal: their brains.

As part of the brain power series on TODAY, special anchor Maria Shriver took a look at a groundbreaking program in the Dallas Police Department that was implemented to help officers in the wake of the shooting last summer in which a gunman killed five Dallas policemenduring a protest.

With police officers often facing extreme stress and trauma on a regular basis, the program created by the Center for Brain Health at the University of Texas at Dallas provides weeks of cognitive training to make officers' minds sharper and more balanced.

"We're really improving the overall function of their brain, and they're better able to be attentive, to block out things that aren't important,'' Dr. Leanne Young of the Center for Brain Health told Shriver on TODAY.

[For more of this story, written by Scott Stump, go to http://www.today.com/health/br...l-situations-t113680]

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