What does an annual brain health check-up look like?

There's no need for electrodes or other expensive equipment at a brain health check-up. Alvaro Fernandez describes how such an assessment would work.

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And remember a lady from Kaiser Permanente close to throwing a shoe at me because her assumption was very

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high-end brain scans. I don't think it's going to be that way. I think it's going to be basically computerized. [MUSIC PLAYING]

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There are different ways to answer that. So some people like high tech. They are thinking, oh, General Electric is going to develop

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this super high-end brain scan that will-- and I don't think that's the way. I mean, because that's not scalable.

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That's extremely expensive. I mentioned this idea in health forums. And I remember a lady from Kaiser Permanente

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close to throwing a shoe at me because her assumption was very high-end brain scans. I don't think it's going to be that way.

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I think it's going to be basically computerized, maybe 30 to 40 minutes, fully online assessment of a variety of cognitive,

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emotional, and behavioral dimensions that are enough to predict what's getting

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m what is getting worse. So basically, it's neuropsychology. But instead of going to a neuropsychologist and have to spend two days doing one-on-one therapies,

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most of it can be automated. And the interesting thing is that those assessments, many of them already today are automated.

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And that's what pharmaceutical trials. When they have to prove anything on thousands of individuals, they already have the computerized assessments.

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But those are not yet offered to the mainstream public. So it's a matter of offering what already exists

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in a way that is relevant and that people understand what's the value of that assessment. So I think it's going to be extremely

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inexpensive, online-based, and ubiquitous, and everywhere. [AUDIO LOGO]