The Latin American Brain Health Institute, a regional initiative to reduce the scale and impact of dementia
Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association
Alzheimers Dement. 2022 Sep;18(9):1696-1698. doi: 10.1002/alz.12710. Epub 2022 Jun 16.
ABSTRACT
Latin American and Caribbean countries face complex challenges to improve brain health and reduce the impact of dementia. Regional hubs devoted to research, capacity building, implementation science, and education are critically needed. The Latin American Brain Health Institute represent an important step to address many of these needs.
PMID:35708193 | PMC:PMC9482938 | DOI:10.1002/alz.12710
Authors
![Lea Grinberg headshot 2021](/sites/default/files/styles/image_1x1_small/public/profile/Grinberg_Lea%20%281%29.jpg?h=a09a6676&itok=ispOx_-8)
Lea Tenenholz Grinberg, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology and Pathology
![Andrea Slachevsky headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/image_1x1_small/public/profile/Slachevsky.jpg?h=ce9941eb&itok=cPeWICLO)
Andrea Slachevsky, MD, PhD
![Victor Valcour](/sites/default/files/styles/image_1x1_small/public/profile/Victor%20Valcour.jpg?h=88b1f798&itok=-hX5KIpa)
Victor Valcour, MD, PhD
Site Director, University of California, San Francisco
![Ian Robertson](/sites/default/files/styles/image_1x1_small/public/profile/Ian%20Robertson.jpg?h=9685afe8&itok=nxJtKwn7)
Ian Robertson, MPhil, PhD, FTCD
Founding Director, Trinity College Dublin
![Brian Lawlor](/sites/default/files/styles/image_1x1_small/public/profile/brian-lawlor.png?h=bc3dcdbc&itok=clmeu0JZ)
Brian Lawlor, MD, FRCPI, FRCPsych
Site Director, Trinity College Dublin
![Bruce Miller](/sites/default/files/styles/image_1x1_small/public/profile/Bruce%20Miller.jpg?h=3334e0bf&itok=3zITuREU)
Bruce Miller, MD
Founding Director, University of California, San Francisco
![Agustín Ibáñez,](/sites/default/files/styles/image_1x1_small/public/profile/Agustin-resized.jpg?h=ad4dead1&itok=s-eQo7_6)
Agustín Ibáñez, PhD
Neuroscientist
Authors
Claudia Duran-Aniotz
Jorge Sanhueza
Lea T Grinberg
Andrea Slachevsky
Victor Valcour
Ian Robertson
Brian Lawlor
Bruce Miller
Agustín Ibáñez