Running the World’s Largest Dementia Trial: Creyos and Maintain Your Brain

INTRODUCING MAINTAIN YOUR BRAIN:

Running the Largest Dementia Prevention Trial in the World

Around the world, a new case of dementia is diagnosed every 3 seconds. And the number of people with dementia is expected to double every 20 years. The Maintain Your Brain (MYB) trial, led by the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) in Australia, is aiming to fight this troubling trend by identifying the lifestyle activities that reduce future risk of dementia. To do so, they are recruiting thousands of participants to participate online, changing their lifestyles to slow the progression of dementia as they age.

The MYB trial is 3 years in length, delivering coaching online while regularly measuring brain health in order to help participants fight dementia and determine what strategies work. Coaching programs are tailored to target individual risk factors. Treatments include exercise, diet, cognitive training, and stress management—all factors with promise for maintaining brain health into old age, but never studied on such a massive scale. 

THE SOLUTION:

Rising to the Task of Testing Thousands

With Creyos Research contributing to an efficient trial, MYB can study thousands of participants. But Creyos Research scales to any size—from small pilot trials to collaborative international studies. Tests can be performed in a lab or at a participant’s home, with secure web-based testing that works on nearly any device.

The Creyos tests were also perfect for this long-term tracking of brain health. They can be taken in participants’ own homes, in a short amount of time, making it easy to gain an immense amount of data with almost no effort on the part of the investigators. 

Because the tests are proven reliable over time, and puzzles are randomly generated for each test to minimize practice effects, the investigators can be sure that changes in brain health are a direct result of their interventions.