Brain health has been a central focus of the Mensa Foundation in 2026. Many of you told us you wanted to take part in this year's Colloquium but could not travel to Fort Worth, and Perspectives on Brain Health is our response. Two online sessions, one before the Colloquium and one after, that bring the heart of the conversation to you wherever you are.
We are also piloting a pay-what-you-wish pricing model for this series. There is no set fee to attend. Contribute whatever feels right to you, and your registration is the same either way.
What you'll explore
Part 1: Brain Health and Traumatic Brain Injury — Saturday, June 20 Dr. Lee builds a working definition of brain health and reexamines one of its most misunderstood threats: traumatic brain injury. The session moves beyond the familiar image of physical impact to explore a broader understanding of trauma and its effects on the brain, including how brain-imaging tools such as qEEG, fMRI, and SPECT are used to assess brain function.
Part 2: Achieving and Maintaining Optimal Brain Health — Saturday, July 11 The closing webinar turns toward what supports a healthy brain over time. Dr. Lee will begin by drawing on ideas shared at the Mensa Foundation Colloquium, so those who could not attend in person still come away with a sense of what was discussed there. He will then explore the gut-brain axis and the role of the microbiome, along with emerging and investigational approaches including peptides, nootropics, cellular medicine, and light-based therapies. Several of these are areas of ongoing research and are not established standards of care; Dr. Lee will present them as emerging ideas worth understanding, not as medical advice.
About Dr. Doohi Lee
Doohi Lee, MD, is a board-certified radiologist and the Founder and Medical Director of the Mind for Life Brain Center in Plano, Texas, where his work focuses on brain imaging and individualized care for conditions including traumatic brain injury, ADHD, depression, and PTSD. He earned his medical degree at Case Western Reserve University, completed his residency at Henry Ford Hospital, and has held academic appointments in radiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, New York Medical College, and Albany Medical College. In recent years his clinical interests have expanded into integrative and regenerative approaches to brain health. In this series, Dr. Lee shares his perspectives on brain health drawn from decades of clinical practice. A longtime member of American Mensa, he is also an accomplished pianist and orchestral conductor, and the founder of the Dallas Medical Orchestra.
