Randolph Schiffer, MD, Medical Director, Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Cleveland Clinic, discusses brain health and cognitive loss, its increasing importance across all disciplines of medicine and our relative lack of resources to deal with this problem in the 21st century.

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