Brain Health for Life. Preventing Brain-Related Disability

Brain diseases represent a major global threat for human public health and the sustainability of human societies, representing already the main cause of disability throughout human life. One of four people in the world suffers from neurological, psychiatric, mental and cerebral disabilities. In ten years, nearly 30% of a population of healthy adults aged between 40 and 65 will be diagnosed with a disabling brain disease.

We need a different, two-pronged approach to address this challenge: instead of trying to treat diseases, we need to focus on promoting brain health, educate and empower the public to adopt lifelong healthy lifestyles in order to minimize the risk of developing psychiatric and neurological diseases. In parallel, we need to gain a deeper understanding of brain resilience and its mechanisms, to be able to design interventions to promote it and delay the onset of clinical manifestations of disease and the consequent disability.

Here, we aim to promote a global ecosystem that engages multiple relevant stakeholders, brings together and adds value to existing efforts, disseminates knowledge, educates and empowers the public, and grows the leaders of tomorrow by analyzing modifiable lifestyles as nutrition, sleep, exercise, social or psychological factors, among others, and promoting brain resilience and reserve.

In addition to the lectures, we will settle an innovation track with a pitch session and matchmaking opportunities with KOLs and venture capitals.

This event will be entirely celebrated online (with the possibility of face-to-face participation if the current COVID19 situation is safe) and free of charge.

Registration for the Short Couse is sold out!
Deadline to submit your abstract to be selected for the pitching session of the innovation track: October 30. 

This short course is part of ToHealth program, an EIT Health activity. The course is organized by Biocat, Institut Guttmann and “la Caixa” Foundation, with the collaboration of the Institute of Neurosciences of the Universitat de Barcelona, Meditecnologia and Medicen Paris, under the framework of B·Debate.

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