Buddhi Clinic, an innovative organisation that offers neuropsychiatry and integrative medicine, organised an expo recently in connection with the World Alzheimer’s Day.
The theme for this year for World Alzheimer’s Day, to be observed on September 21, is “Never Too Early, Never Too Late,” reflecting the need to identify risk factors of the disease and take steps to reduce the risk and prevent the onset of dementia.
Vorapun Senanarong, associate professor at Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, spoke on the problems of behaviour that accompanies brain ageing. She outlined in her lecture the role of the brain’s frontal lobes, the social brain in modulating behaviour and how it changes with ageing and what happens in dementia. She was trained under Jeffrey Cummings, pioneer of behavioural assessment and management in dementia.
