As the associate director of the Alzheimer's Prevention Clinic at Weill Cornell Medical College, my work has been focused on the rigorous study of the optimal diet for the brain, not just to prevent or mitigate Alzheimer's (obvious from the name of our clinic) but also to maintain memory, cognition, and
focus over an entire lifetime.
Maynard et al. say nanotechnology needs to: develop instruments to assess exposure to engineered nanomaterials in air and water within next 3 - 10 years; create and test ways of evaluating the toxicity of nanomaterials in 5 - 15 years; generate models to predict their possible impact on the environment and human health
over the next 10 years; develop ways to assess the health and environmental impact of nanomaterials
over their
entire lifetime, within 5 years; and, enable risk -
focused research into nanomaterials, within the next 12 months.