GCBH Report: COVID-19 and Brain Health
The Global Council on Brain Health (GCBH) has published a special report, "COVID-19 and Brain Health: The Global Council on Brain Health’s Recommendations on What to Do Now."
GCBH is an independent collaborative of scientists, health professionals, scholars, and policy experts from around the world who are working in areas of brain health related to human cognition. With growing evidence that the coronavirus directly harms the brain and indirectly harms mental well-being due to social isolation and new, increased stressors, the GCBH recognized the urgent need to inform adults age 50+ about ways to their protect brain health as the pandemic continues.
In this report, the GCBH describes the known neurological symptoms occurring in the short and long term for adults, providing 10 recommendations to protect brain health and urging research in 11 different areas. Calling for an all-of-society approach to protect the brain health of everyone, the GCBH draws particular attention to the negative effects of COVID-19 on people living with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias and to the impact of health care inequalities
To read the report, click here.
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To go to the related infographic in English, click here, and in Spanish, click here.
