Tan Jerry H K, Koychev Ivan
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Division of Psychiatry, Department of Brain Health Sciences, Imperial College London, London, UK.
BJPsych Open. 2025 May 9;11(3):e98. doi: 10.1192/bjo.2025.62.
Brain Health Services are second-generation memory clinics that aim to reduce the risk of progression to dementia in at-risk individuals. We describe the rationale for such a service, and comment on its novel implementation by Venkataraman and colleagues that integrates digital technologies and biomarker testing. We describe the advantages and possible limitations of such an approach, then investigate areas for further work - namely, the need to account for multiple pathologies in biomarker testing and to formulate standards for genetic counselling.
脑健康服务是第二代记忆诊所,旨在降低高危个体发展为痴呆症的风险。我们阐述了此类服务的基本原理,并对文卡塔拉曼及其同事将数字技术和生物标志物检测相结合的新颖实施方式进行了评论。我们描述了这种方法的优点和可能存在的局限性,然后探讨了需要进一步开展工作的领域,即生物标志物检测中考虑多种病理情况的必要性以及制定遗传咨询标准的必要性。