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Craig Ritchie

Craig Ritchie is a Scottish professor of psychiatry. He is a clinical academic and researcher specialising in neurodegenerative diseases – in particularly the early diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease. He is the founder and chief executive officer of Scottish Brain Sciences and serves as the Professor of Brain Health and Neurodegenerative Disease at the University of St Andrews.

Ritchie promotes the "Brain Health Movement," which advocates for the detection of Alzheimer's disease in midlife, decades before the onset of dementia symptoms. He previously held the Chair in Psychiatry of Ageing at the University of Edinburgh and served as the inaugural Director of Brain Health Scotland, a government-funded initiative to prevent dementia. Provided by Wikipedia