Sergeant Mike Rials is head of training operations for the Brain Performance Institute. He is a part of the Warrior Training Team and a Purple Heart recipient.

According to the BrainHealth website:

Marine Corps veteran and Purple Heart recipient Sergeant Mike Rials is head of training operations for the Brain Performance Institute. He facilitates high performance brain training for warriors, corporate executives, athletes, and others.

After four years with the Marine Corps, in which he was deployed on two Iraq tours and one Afghanistan tour, Sgt. Rials earned a bachelor of science in psychology with a minor in criminology.  The invisible effects of the war on not only his fellow Marines, but also himself, motivated Mike to want to better understand the mind and improve the lives of other military service personnel.

After experiencing the meaningful, life-changing impact of the Center’s Strategic Memory Advanced Reasoning Training (SMART) for traumatic brain injury (TBI) and magnetic stimulation therapy for post-traumatic stress (PTS), Mike joined the Center for BrainHealth staff in 2012. Prior to that, during his time as a student, he revitalized the languishing, four-member Veterans of Dallas at UT Dallas club and transformed it into an organization with more than 140 members. He successfully campaigned to establish the fully funded on-campus Veterans Center, which houses amenities for vets such as computers, lounge area, work-study job opportunities, and offices for Veterans Certified Officials.

Sergeant Mike Rials served as a panelist in the McCuistion episode, Make Your Brain Smarter – Part Two. Follow the preceding link to watch the full episode.