Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Understanding Brain Health: Preventing Dementia
The University of Edinburgh and Brain Health Scotland
This course introduced the core principles of brain health and explored strategies to reduce the incidence of neurodegenerative diseases which lead to dementia. The course covered brain biology, risk factors, clinical research programmes, and global development of clinical brain health services.
The content of the following course has been certified by the CPD Certification Service as conforming to continuing professional development principles.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Craig Ritchie
Professor of the Psychiatry of Ageing
The University of Edinburgh
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- 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
Syllabus
- How does the brain work and what goes wrong to cause neurodegenerative diseases?
- How can we predict risk and detect disease early?
- How can we manage risk factors and design interventions to improve brain health?
- How must public health and clinical practice adapt to prevent dementia?
- How do we act on a global scale to shift towards a culture of positive brain health?
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Issued on 17th August 2022
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