Brain capital is crucial for global sustainable development

Harris A Eyre1, William Hynes2, Rym Ayadi3

  • 1Brain Capital Alliance, San Francisco, CA, USA; Center for Health and Biosciences, The Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA; Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, Dallas, TX, USA; Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association, Barcelona, Spain; Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation (IMPACT), Deakin University and Barwon Health, Geelong, VIC, Australia; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston, TX, USA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Global Brain Health Institute, University of California San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA, USA; Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; FondaMental Fondation, Paris, France; Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Adolfo Ibáñez University, Santiago de Chile, Chile; Houston Methodist Behavioral Health, Houston Methodist Academic Institute, Houston, TX, USA; Frontier Technology Lab, School of Engineering and Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.

The Lancet. Neurology
|January 27, 2024
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