Brain Performance Institute Executive Director Leanne Young.

The staircase leading to the second and third floors of the Brain Performance Institute creates an artistic diagonal flow as it ascends from the atrium and its seating areas.

The staircase leading to the second and third floors of the institute creates an artistic diagonal flow as it ascends from the atrium.

Exterior lighting filters its way into the atrium, creating relaxing areas for visitors and staff to sit.

Staff members enjoy conversation and food in the atrium.

The seating area in the atrium offers a pleasant place for visitors and staff to eat or visit.

Meeting rooms are available on the second and third floors, overlooking the building’s atrium area.

Receptionist Ashley Wilson sits in the atrium, illuminated by sunlight streaming through blinds on the curved walls of the atrium..

The Baldridge Training Room has wood floors to accommodate such activities as mindfulness and yoga classes.

Brain Performance Institute Executive Director Leanne Young stands in a 6-foot-by-12-foot gathering area outside the Baldridge Training Room created by a company called Flight Series Tiles that reclaims aluminum from aircraft graveyards in Arizona and transforms it into tiles. The material creates a visual connection with military veterans.

Clinician Letty Owuor organizes materials in the Warrior Wing.

The “Warrior Suite” was made specifically for work with military veterans and others with traumatic brain injuries. Its paneled walls and lower ceilings create a more protected feeling. The three-sided room allows for looking out — never to the door — with diffused lighting and special furniture with high neck support to ensure clients feel secure.

A training room in the Warrior Wing is ready for an auditorium-style session.

A training room is equipped with video screens.

Clinician Aimee Herron prepares a virtual reality world for a session with a middle school student. The Adolescent Reasoning Initiative helps teachers train their students to maximize their brain performance through depth of processing, creativity, and innovative problem solving. State funding and private philanthropy has allowed for more than 50,000 students throughout Texas and four additional states to receive the training.

Clinician Aimee Herron creates a virtual environment in which she can interact with a young client.

Lead Artist Aaron Tate maps his facial features for use with a virtual reality character as Director of Technology Lara Ashmore looks on.

Tate maps his facial features for use with a virtual reality character as Ashmore looks on.

Tate maps his facial features for use with a virtual reality character.

Ashmore points to a virtual reality character opening its mouth in response to Tate opening his own mouth.

Tate uses an Oculus Rift VR headset to enter a virtual room being shown on the screens behind him.

The is one of two glass neurons created by artist David Gappa that ignited across an artistically rendered glass synapse which was used in a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the building.

Illuminated glass brain synapses light up the ceiling in the first-floor meeting room at the institute. Blinds give the room a soothing, soft glow from the sunlight.

Illuminated glass brain synapses light up the ceiling in the first-floor meeting room.

Illuminated glass brain synapses light up the ceiling in the first-floor meeting room.

The Brain Performance Institute at 2200 Mockingbird Lane near Dallas Love Field is part of the Center for BrainHealth at the University of Texas at Dallas.

An exterior look at the new institute.

The 62,000-square-foot building officially opens to the public Thursday.