Researchers reveal 17 modifiable risk factors shared by stroke, dementia, and late-life depression
Mass General Brigham researchers developed and validated the Brain Care Score to measure efforts to protect brain health and offer guidance on how to improve it. The researchers have updated the Brain Care Score to reflect the latest scientific updates.
Mass General Brigham Researchers Reveal 17 Modifiable Risk Factors Shared by Stroke, Dementia, and Late-Life Depression
Age-related brain diseases such as stroke, dementia, and late-life depression are a debilitating part of growing older, but people can lower their risk of these diseases through behavioral and lifestyle changes.
What Is a Brain Care Score?
What if you had a simple metric to help you reduce your risk of future brain disease? Researchers at Mass General Brigham in Boston have created a tool that serves this very purpose.
As the U.S. ages, dementia is on the rise. Here are ways to reduce your risk
The number of people with dementia is expected to double in the next 40 years, according to a study out this week in the journal Nature.
Improve Your Brain Health with a New Brain Care Score
Maintaining a healthy brain is important for doing your best in various aspects of life, including your job, relationships, and daily activities. It improves your ability to think clearly, make decisions, and solve problems easily. More importantly, maintaining a healthy brain can help protect against serious health conditions.
Do You Have Healthy Brain Habits?
These 12 questions can help assess your risk for dementia, stroke and depression, and identify ways to reduce it.
Brain Care Score for Dementia and Stroke Also Predicts Late-Life Depression
The tracker tool, developed by Mass General Brigham researchers in partnership with patients, evaluates 12 modifiable physical, lifestyle and social factors that can help patients protect their brain health.
A simple tool may be able to predict your risk for both dementia and depression, study finds
Scientists announced in December the successful creation of the Brain Care Score, a tool for assessing dementia or stroke risk without medical procedures. That score, which also helps patients and doctors identify beneficial lifestyle changes, may now also be able to predict the odds of developing depression later in life, according to a new study.
What’s your Brain Care Score? The answer may indicate your dementia risk
What if you could assess your risk of developing dementia or having a stroke as you age without medical procedures? A new tool named the Brain Care Score, or BCS, may help you do just that while also advising how you can lower your risk, a new study has found.