Celebrating World Brain Day 2024: Significance, History & Ways To Keep Brain Healthy

World Brain Day 2024: Significance, History & Ways To Keep Brain Healthy

For the current year, 2024, the World Brain Day is focused on the “Brain Health and Prevention”. The theme covers the intervention plan to prevent risk factors associated with neurological diseases and engage communities in early identification and management of the risk factors as well as education for neurological diseases prevention.

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The focus on Brain Health and Prevention revolves around five key pillars:

• Prevention of neurological ailments is usually pegged on the ability to diagnose such conditions in their preliminary stages and then treat them appropriately.
  To this end, global awareness on prevention of brain diseases should be enhanced.
  
• Socioeconomic status and location of the population should not become the barriers to preventing an event.
  
• Many employments are involved in fulfilling the world neurological demands such as healthcare professionals, researchers, and politicians among others.
  
• The mission is to develop around the acknowledgment of the brain health as one of the primary human right.

Regarding the annual World Brain Day,

This global body was founded on the 22 nd of July, 1957 and was known as the World Federation of Neurology (WFN). The Public Awareness and Advocacy Committee suggested that the twenty-second of July two thousand and fourteen should be known as world brain day. This was discussed in the WCN Council of Delegates meeting on 22nd of September 2013; all the delegates fully supported it. Although it was for the first time in 2013 that the activity was held, at the Board of Trustees meeting in February 2014 it was proposed that this became a yearly event. 

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Measures male to keep the brain healthy

The following tips can be useful in attaining a healthy status of the brain.

Ensuring that one takes a minimum sleep of seven hours on a daily basis.

Engage yourself in physical activity for at least two hours prior to going to sleep.

Measures that are usually taken when engaging in a certain activity such as driving (wearing a helmet/seatbelt).

Intending to receive treatment for depressive and anxious conditions.

Restriction in screen time, preferably two hours to the bedtime/sleep.

Exclusion of products such as nicotine and caffeine for at least six hours to the time of retiring to bed.

Including in ones diet green vegetables beans, seafood, nuts seeds and taking regular exercise.

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