Jake Jacobson

Brain plasticity, or neuroplasticity, is the brain’s remarkable ability to change, adapt, and reorganize throughout our lives as we grow and learn. However, in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), learning results in the memories and sensory information surrounding a traumatic event permanently connecting to the emotional part of the brain that drives fear and anxiety, known as the fight-or-flight response....

UT Arlington’s Amphibian and Reptile Diversity Research Center (ARDRC) has become one of the largest publicly accessible herpetology libraries in the world, thanks to in-kind donations of tens of thousands of rare books, scientific journals, and articles, and reports over the past two years, the university announced last month....