Brain Health Moves From Late-Life Treatment to Preventive System Design
Arianna Huffington, Bristol Myers Squibb’s Wendy Bartie, and neurologist Richard Isaacson argue that brain health should be treated as a continuum running from everyday cognition and mental health to Alzheimer’s disease, not as a set of isolated conditions. Their case is that prevention, medicines, testing, workplace design, and access to care have to be connected, because daily behaviors such as sleep, exercise, food, stress reduction, and social connection can shape risk and may strengthen medical treatment rather than compete with it.
The Aspen Institute·Jun 30, 2026·19 min read