April 30, 2025
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SAN DIEGO — Growing consciousness of the looming menace to mind well being posed by world local weather change is vital for neurologists, in accordance with a speaker on the American Academy of Neurology Annual Assembly.
“We are likely to find out about local weather, however we don’t at all times acknowledge that it may be a threat issue. The fossil fuels we burn could be a threat issue for situations like dementia, like stroke, like autism,” Beth A. Malow, MD, MS, professor of neurology and pediatrics within the division of neurology at Vanderbilt College Medical Heart, stated on this Healio video concerning her plenary session. “It’s actually vital as neurologists we additionally acknowledge that excessive warmth can have an effect on our sufferers.”
Malow additionally implored neurologists to take “any motion they will, even when small,” to make a distinction in sufferers’ lives, notably to shut the hole between analysis of neurologic situations and remedy.
Amongst her different recommendations for these within the neurology sphere: speaking to sufferers about clear vitality sources and dealing with native well being care techniques to lower emissions and speaking to associates, neighbors and different group members about local weather change and well being.
“Local weather change is really in our lane,” she added.
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Beth A. Malow, MD, MS, could be reached at beth.malow@vumc.org.
