(Adnkronos) - “Oggi il cervello è al centro non solo di una serie di scoperte scientifiche, ma anche di una serie di criticità, sollecitazioni, nuove malattie, invecchiamento. Il Brain Health è un programma ad ampio raggio per prevenire l'insorgenza delle demenze, dell'Alzheimer, del Parkinson, ma anche per trovare nuove possibilità di cura e di trattamento per le malattie che affliggono la mente”. Lo ha detto Beatrice Lorenzin, senatrice e co-presidente Intergruppo parlamentare per le Neuroscienze e l'Alzheimer, in occasione del 54° Congresso Sin - Società italiana di neurologia, in svolgimento a Roma fino al 12 novembre.
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00:00We often talk about prevention and health, but in the end without our mind we are very
00:08little and today the brain is at the center not only of a series of scientific discoveries,
00:13but also of a series of criticisms, complaints, new diseases, aging.
00:18And so Brain Health is a wide-ranging program to prevent the emergence of dementia,
00:25Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, but also to find new possibilities of care and treatment
00:30for diseases that affect the mind.
00:32Obviously, respecting the scientific assessments that concern safety, in my opinion, trying
00:38to find solutions that allow us, as Europe, not to be left out of clinical experimentation,
00:43for example in the United States, compared to drugs authorized by the FDA or by Japan,
00:49would mean giving our researchers, our experimenters, our patients the opportunity
00:54to stay on track in the study of these new therapies.
00:57If we are faced with drugs that can cure Alzheimer's or Parkinson's, we will have to
01:02do something similar to what I invented for Hepatitis C, that is, to find a way
01:09to give these drugs to everyone, to make them sustainable for the health system.
01:16Obviously, now we are still working on research and experimentation, but in order to be able
01:20to do this, we must first have an early diagnosis system, that is, to be able to capture first
01:26the people to care for these drugs.