2024-08-01 16:52:53
(ANSA) – MILAN, AUGUST 1 – The new edition of ‘Preserving the Brain’, part of Human Brain, the neuroscience project to which the Prada Foundation is dedicated, is a real call to action for the prevention of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS and multiple sclerosis.
Developed with 15 international university neuroscience institutes and five Italian patient associations, ‘Preserving the Brain: Call to Action’ has a program that includes an international congress (which will take place at the foundation’s headquarters in Milan on October 16 and 17), an exhibition and a series of meetings that will continue until April 7.
“The scientific exhibition created in a way that makes the contents understandable to the entire public and the meetings conceived in collaboration with patient organizations and associations – explained Giancarlo Comi, president of the scientific committee of Preserving the Brain – have the precise objective of involving the entire community in all its articulations in the fight against neurodegenerative diseases”.
Incurable diseases for which prevention is important.
“Almost always – he added – it is the sum of various roots nourished by genetic and environmental factors that generate the pathology. Prevention, that is, the identification of these roots, can allow us to block the consequences. We plant some of these roots ourselves, for this reason individuals must have a direct role in the prevention process. This involves an active role of the person not only at the time of the disease, but also in preventing it”.
According to Miuccia Prada, president of the Foundation, “it is essential to accompany research and scientific dissemination with awareness-raising activities and a program of concrete actions capable of influencing our behaviors by involving those who deal with neurodegenerative diseases on a daily basis, not only from a strictly medical point of view”. “We are happy that this international forum has become, as we hoped during the first edition – she concluded -, a recurring event that contributes to connecting research centers among themselves and with a broader and more heterogeneous community”. (ANSA).
2024-08-01 16:52:53