Building brain capital

Harris A Eyre; Rym Ayadi; William Ellsworth; Gowri Aragam; Erin Smith; Walter D Dawson; Agustin Ibanez; Cara Altimus; Michael Berk; Husseini K Manji; Eric A Storch; Marion Leboyer; Naoko Kawaguchi; Michael Freeman; Patrick Brannelly; Facundo Manes; Sandra B Chapman; Jeffrey Cummings; Carol Graham; Benjamin F Miller; Zoltan Sarnyai; Retsina Meyer; William Hynes

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2021.04.007

Building brain capital

Neuron. 2021 May 5;109(9):1430-1432. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2021.04.007.

Authors

Harris A Eyre¹, Rym Ayadi², William Ellsworth³, Gowri Aragam³, Erin Smith⁴, Walter D Dawson⁵, Agustin Ibanez⁶, Cara Altimus⁷, Michael Berk⁸, Husseini K Manji⁹, Eric A Storch¹⁰, Marion Leboyer¹¹, Naoko Kawaguchi¹², Michael Freeman¹³, Patrick Brannelly¹⁴, Facundo Manes¹⁵, Sandra B Chapman¹⁶, Jeffrey Cummings¹⁷, Carol Graham¹⁸, Benjamin F Miller¹⁹, Zoltan Sarnyai²⁰, Retsina Meyer²¹, William Hynes¹²

Affiliations

¹ Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris, France; The PRODEO Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA; IMPACT, The Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation, School of Medicine, Barwon Health, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA. Electronic address: harris@prodeobrain.com.
² Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association, Barcelona, Spain.
³ Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
⁴ Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris, France; The PRODEO Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA; Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
⁵ Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA; Institute on Aging, College of Urban and Public Affairs, Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA; Global Brain Health Institute, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA and Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
⁶ Global Brain Health Institute, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA and Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; Cognitive Neuroscience Center (CNC), Universidad San Andres, Buenos Aires, Argentina; National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina; Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibanez, Santiago, Chile.
⁷ Center for Strategic Philanthropy, Milken Institute, Washington, DC, USA.
⁸ IMPACT, The Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation, School of Medicine, Barwon Health, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia; Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; Orygen Youth Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; The Florey Institute for Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
⁹ Science for Minds, Johnson & Johnson, Titusville, NJ, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
¹¹ Psychiatry Department, University Paris Est Créteil, INSERM U955, FondaMental Foundation, Creteil, France.
¹² Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris, France.
¹³ Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA.
¹⁴ Gates Ventures Alzheimer's Disease Data Initiative, Piedmont, CA, USA.
¹⁵ National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Godoy Cruz 2290, Piso 9 (C1425FQB), Buenos Aires, Argentina; Institute of Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience (INCYT), INECO Foundation, Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
¹⁶ Center for BrainHealth, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA.
¹⁷ Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience, Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, USA.
¹⁸ Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, USA; School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA; Gallup, Washington, DC, USA.
¹⁹ Wellbeing Trust, Washington, DC, USA; Department of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO, USA.
²⁰ Laboratory of Psychiatric Neuroscience, Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia.
²¹ Delix Therapeutics, Boston, MA, USA.

Abstract

Brains are indispensable drivers of human progress. Why not invest more heavily in them? We seek to place Brain Capital at the center of a new narrative to fuel economic and societal recovery and resilience.

MeSH terms

Biomedical Research / economics
Brain*
Capital Financing*
Health Promotion* / economics
Health Promotion* / methods
Health Promotion* / organization & administration
Humans
Interdisciplinary Communication
Interdisciplinary Research* / economics
Interdisciplinary Research* / organization & administration
Neurosciences* / economics

Abstract

MeSH terms

Grants and funding