Research
Through our research and extensive collective medical backgrounds, we work to demystify the steps to achieving long-term brain health and the prevention of devastating diseases such as Alzheimer’s and dementia.
Brain health belongs to everyone.
Community-led research and practical support to help prevent Alzheimer's and dementia.

Research · Education · Mobilization
of Alzheimer's cases may be preventable through lifestyle and environmental change.
The younger we begin,Healthy Minds Initiative enables enhanced research, fundraising, and outreach in communities around the world.
Through our research and extensive collective medical backgrounds, we work to demystify the steps to achieving long-term brain health and the prevention of devastating diseases such as Alzheimer’s and dementia.
Most people don’t understand brain health is in their hands. We host local workshops in community centers and churches—places where members of the community are known to gather—to arm people with knowledge to improve brain health.
We involve local community leaders across government, civic, business, and faith communities, and equip them with the best strategies to approach brain health education and implementation.
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Community-wide Alzheimer's prevention research, built with the communities it serves — now enrolling across Los Angeles churches and throughout California.
Science in partnership with community.

Stories, research notes, and practical ideas for healthier minds.

World Health Day reminds us that health is not a privilege, but a fundamental human right.
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Self-love is central to general health, not just mental health. We explain its neurological benefits, and how to practice it.
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Why tobacco use persists in the face of evidence of its harms, and what we can do about it.
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HMI partnered with Crenshaw Christian Center on one of the most important and innovative brain health research programs in the United States.
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