Understanding Brain Health - Preventing Dementia The University of Edinburgh

Overview

50 million people worldwide currently live with dementia. This number is projected to increase to over 150 million by the year 2050.

A dementia diagnosis represents an advanced stage of disease, with the brain diseases that lead to dementia actually beginning many years before symptoms emerge.

This provides a window of opportunity to reduce the risk of dementia by proactively protecting our brain health.

What you'll learn

By the end of the Understanding Brain Health - Preventing Dementia course offered by The University of Edinburgh, you‘ll be able to:

• Develop an understanding of the pathological processes which underpin the diseases that lead to dementia, how these processes begin in mid-life and provide a window of opportunity to reduce risk of dementia in later life

• Identify risk factors for neurodegenerative disease and explain that brain health can be protected through lifestyle choices and risk modification behaviours

• Evaluate the latest methods in brain health research, including the design of clinical trials for interventions to prevent dementia

• Explore the ways health data can be gathered and used to develop risk prediction tools for neurodegenerative disease that inform personalised prevention plans

• Assess the public health and clinical practice actions needed to help improve brain health at a population and individual level and evaluate the impact of health inequalities on a local and global scale