Brain health across the life span : proceedings of a workshop / Anna Nicholson, rapporteur ; Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Health and Medicine Division, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine, contributor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nicholson, Anna, editor.

Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Health and Medicine Division, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brain--Congresses.

Brain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (157 pages)

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : The National Academies Press, [2020]

Summary:

Brain health affects Americans across all ages, genders, races, and ethnicities. Enriching the body of scientific knowledge around brain health and cognitive ability has the potential to improve quality of life and longevity for many millions of Americans and their families. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that as many as 5 million Americans were living with Alzheimer's disease in 2014. That same year, more than 800,000 children were treated for concussion or traumatic brain injuries in U.S. emergency departments. Each year, more than 795,000 people in the United States have a stroke. Developing more effective treatment strategies for brain injuries and illnesses is essential, but brain health is not focused exclusively on disease, disorders, and vulnerability. It is equally important to better understand the ways our brains grow, learn, adapt, and heal. Addressing all of these domains to optimize brain health will require consideration about how to define brain health and resilience and about how to identify key elements to measure those concepts. Understanding the interactions between the brain, the body, and socioenvironmental forces is also fundamental to improving brain health. To explore issues related to brain health throughout the life span, from birth through old age, a public workshop titled Brain Health Across the Life Span was convened on September 24 and 25, 2019, by the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice in the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies. This publication summarizes the presentation and discussion of the workshop.

Contents:

Introduction

Workshop objectives

Organization of the proceedings

Fundamentals of brain health and resilience

Multiscale approach for brain health

Fundamental concepts of brain health and resilience

Brain-body interactions

Effect of Circadian rhythms on health across the life span

Early environmental risk factors for mental health disorders

Insulin resistance : a link in brain-body interactions

Panel discussion on brain-body interactions

Behavioral and biological convergence

Neural correlates of attention and cognition

Role of meditation in improving brain health and resilience

Panel discussion on behavioral and biological convergence

Measuring brain health

Grand views and potholes on the road to precision neuroscience

Panel discussion on the way forward in measurement and research

Brain health in the social context

From me to we : how the brain forms, maintains, and restores healthy relationships

Motivation, cognition, and decision making in everyday life

Life-course causes of later-life inequalities in brain health

Panel discussion on brain health in the social context

Brain health across the life span

Early adversity, emotional processing, and the neural bases of psychiatric illness

The impact of early-life stress on neurodevelopment

Integrating complex and personalized data to understand normal and abnormal brain network development

Brain network aging and health across the adult life span

Appendixes

A. Speaker biographical sketches

B. Workshop agenda

C. References.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-309-67264-3