Princess Braggs, Ph.D.

Biography

Princess S. Braggs, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. She serves as the attending neuropsychologist on the inpatient rehabilitation unit at Zale Lipshy Pavilion. Dr. Braggs earned a master’s degree in clinical psychology with a concentration in neuropsychology from the Georgia School of Professional Psychology as well as a doctoral degree in clinical psychology with an emphasis in neuropsychology from the University of North Texas. She completed an internship accredited by the American Psychological Association in adult neuropsychology at the University of Missouri – Columbia as part of the Missouri Health Sciences Psychology Consortium. She subsequently completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in rehabilitation and neuropsychology at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

Dr. Braggs’ clinical work emphasizes the cognitive, psychological, and psychosocial assessment and treatment of patients with acquired brain injury, spinal cord injury, and other complex medical conditions. Her work spans both inpatient care and post-acute recovery, aiming to enhance health outcomes and optimize adjustment to illness and disability. She specializes in neuropsychological and brief cognitive assessment as well as individual, family, and group psychotherapy and education.

Her research interests include multicultural neuropsychology, neurocognitive test development, psychosocial adjustment to and coping with illness and disability, patient health outcomes, community and family re-integration post-injury or insult, and priming the pipeline to health service psychology in rehabilitation medicine.

Dr. Braggs is a member of the National Academy of Neuropsychology, the Society for Black Neuropsychologists, and the American Psychological Association (Divisions 22 and 40).