Julia Basso, PhD, CYT

ACTIVE MEMBER • Assistant Professor

Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, & Exercise, Virginia Tech

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(540)-231-9445 • jbasso@vt.edu

My research and the work of The Embodied Brain Laboratory at Virginia Tech seeks to understand how we can utilize our minds and bodies to improve biopsychosocial health and wellness in healthy and clinical populations. We utilize transdisciplinary approaches to understand the behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying ways to improve health and wellness, including the motivation for health behaviors such as exercising and healthy eating. Educational efforts, including my primary course Moving Body, Moving Mind also focus on teaching about the neuroscience of health and wellness, using both cognitive (lecture based) and embodied (movement practices) perspectives.