[Editorial] Pointing the way to primary prevention of dementia

The launch of the World Wide FINGERS network —a research initiative to prevent or delay the onset of cognitive decline—on July 19, 2017, at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) was promising news. The risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common form of dementia, is in a large part modulated by genetics, but pre valence is decreasing in many high-income countries; hence, modifiable risk factors are also at work. Identifying and tackling these factors is an urgent research priority, for which the network is a step in the right direction.

Source: Lancet Neurology - August 9, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: The Lancet Neurology Tags: Editorial Source Type: research