SCITalk: The brain health movement in the UK as a life sciences priority

Professor Craig Ritchie is the CEO and founder of Scottish Brain Sciences, as well as honorary chair of Psychiatry of Ageing and Director of the Centre for Dementia Prevention at the University of Edinburgh. Advances in the knowledge of the earliest stages of neurodegenerative disease have emerged from global studies led from Scotland. This knowledge has confirmed the hypothesis that the diseases that lead to dementia originate in early adulthood and the best window of opportunity for management is in mid-life. To develop new detection tools and test new therapies, the health systems and universities must work with the commercial sector and patient groups in the 'quadruple helix’ - to ensure meaningful, high quality and rapid advances are made scientifically that can be implemented with minimal delays. This is the third of three SCI SCITalks on dementia.