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Message from Director Taguchi: "Protecting brain health"

The big problem in preventive medicine going forward isPreventing frailty, locomotor syndrome, and dementiaIt is said.

The stage before dementia is mild cognitive impairment (MCI), but in both cases irreversible changes such as amyloid deposition have progressed. It has been proven that treatment at this stage is difficult even with the latest drugs.

The most important thing is to prevent the brain changes themselves before they occur. This is the same as preventing arteriosclerosis of the coronary arteries before a myocardial infarction occurs.

I have summarized this under the theme of "protecting brain health" as follows.

Protect your brain health

First, it is important to know the current state of your brain.
Until now, the only tests available were cognitive function tests such as MMSE, but these are not suitable for early preventive diagnosis.
Recent advances in AI have made it possible to measure and compare the volume of each part of the brain, including the hippocampus, which is the memory area. This is merely a way to check the health of the brain.

Next, genetic risk assessment is also possible. Risk factors for Alzheimer's and cerebrovascular disease have been identified. It has been proven that genetic risk can be reduced by improving lifestyle habits.

Finally, it is important to know what kind of lifestyle improvements and interventions are important. I have attached a summary document for that purpose. We would like to consider more specific diet and exercise methods and develop an app system to support them in the future.

>> Document "Keep your brain healthy" [PDF: 9.84 MB]

*The materials are open source and can be used freely by anyone.

These will likely be the most important goals of preventive medicine in the future.
We would like to actively promote this.

Director of Tokyo Midtown Clinic
Junichi Taguchi

*For more information about our clinic's collaborative research, clinical research, and other services, please see below.

An article about Director Taguchi's interview with MVision Health, a brain health measurement program jointly developed by our clinic and M Co., Ltd., has been published.

●We have launched MVision health, a new test that comprehensively evaluates the health of the brain, as an optional test for our premium medical checkups.

●Formal launch of “MVision health,” a brain health measurement program for the whole brain (from M Corporation press release)

M Corporation starts offering "MVision brain," a state-of-the-art brain health measurement program developed using AI to analyze over 30,000 brain image big data cases (From M Corporation press release)

- Examination of the effect of plasmalogen (PL) granules on improving cognitive function in elderly care facility residents: A single-blind, randomized, crossover comparative study

*The content of this page is current as of July 2022, 5.

           

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