“The idea of ​​promoting brain health is relatively new. In Europe we are working at different levels to promote brain health as a public health priority. We know today that the brain, on the one hand, is very important for our lives , both as individuals and as a society, but at the same time we know that brain pathologies are very frequent, very important, and are on the increase. We must therefore promote, on the one hand, the prevention of brain diseases and, on the other, the brain health as the tool that will allow new generations to face a future increasingly linked to cognitive and cerebral abilities”. Claudio Bassetti, dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Bern, past president of the European Society of Neurology, vice president of the European Brain Council and coordinator of the brain health plan in Switzerland, said this at Adnkronos Salute this morning in Ancona on the occasion of the Extra G7 Health organized by Ean (European Academy of Neurology), in collaboration with Sin (Italian Society of Neurology) and with the Italian Strategy for Brain Health.
“The first country in Europe that launched a national campaign for brain health – recalls Bassetti – was Norway in 2018. Switzerland and Germany are the other 2 countries that, in 2022, launched an initiative and a Manifesto. In Switzerland we are now defining the roadmap. We are therefore identifying specific targets and targeted activities to promote the prevention of brain diseases, both neurological and mental, and at the same time we intend to promote brain health from a young age. approach must cover the whole life span”.
In particular, “we have identified 5 priorities. The first – lists Bassetti – is to increase knowledge on the importance not only of the brain, but also of brain health. The second is to promote the training of the new generations, who will have to face the wave of problems and patients that we will be treating in future years, given that brain, mental and neurological pathologies are on the increase. The third priority is research, in which the investment is much lower than the needs national stakeholders on prevention. The fifth, and perhaps most important – he concludes – is to collaborate with patients and patient organizations, to ensure that their needs are at the center of our action”.
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