Integrating, Educating, and Implementing Systems of Care Around Brain Health - Part 2

In part two of this two-part series, recorded at this year's AAN Annual Meeting, Dr. Gregg Day talks with Drs. Joel Salinas and Sarah Song about imperfect but practical brain health metrics, patient-centered assessment strategies, and future directions in brain health assessment.

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Disclosures can be found at Neurology.org.    Show transcript:  Dr. Jose Merino:

This is Jose Merino, Editor-in-Chief of the Neurology Family of Journals. The Neurology Podcast provides practical information to neurologists and other clinicians to help them provide better care for their patients. Thanks for listening, and have a great week.

Dr. Stacey Clardy:

Hi, this is your Podcast Editor, Stacey Clardy. Today we feature part two of the brain health discussion that took place at the AAN annual meeting a few months ago. If you have not yet, take a listen to part one from this past Thursday's podcast. For this episode, we pick up with the discussion focusing on plans for how to implement and measure effectiveness of brain health interventions, the sort we can all undertake easily in our clinic visits.

And then, we wrap up the episode with comments and questions from the audience who were present at the Brain Health Talk. I hope you take away some inspiration and some ideas on how to encourage your patients to be proactive about protecting their brain. Thanks. Enjoy.

Dr. Gregg Day:

Hello, this is Gregg Day from Mayo Clinic, and welcome to this special conversation. Today's episode is recorded live at the Brain Health Hub during this year's AAN Annual Meeting in Chicago. Because it was recorded on site, the audio may sound a little different from our usual episodes, but bear with us because it's absolutely worth it. This panel discussion is totally aligned with AAN's mission of bringing brain health to all, and on point with the release of brainhealth.com, AAN's new website, bringing together our resources for clinical practice and for research in this space. We hope you enjoy this panel discussion as much as we enjoyed recording it.

One thing that we acknowledge on the Brain Health Committee, one thing that the AAN is committed to fix as we move forward, there's a lack of validated brain health metrics and biomarkers when we talk about brain health. So what does it mean to be healthy? Or maybe a better question, what does it mean to be healthier than I was a year ago he