• Sanjay M Sisodiya, Medine I Gulcebi, Francesco Fortunato, James D Mills, Ethan Haynes, Elvira Bramon, Paul Chadwick, Olga Ciccarelli, Anthony S David, Kris De Meyer, Nick C Fox, Joanna Davan Wetton, Martin Koltzenburg, Dimitri M Kullmann, Manju A Kurian, Hadi Manji, Mark A Maslin, Manjit Matharu, Hugh Montgomery, Marina Romanello, David J Werring, Lisa Zhang, Karl J Friston, and Michael G Hanna.
• Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK; Chalfont Centre for Epilepsy, Chalfont-St-Peter, UK. Electronic address: s.sisodiya@ucl.ac.uk.
• Lancet Neurol. 2024 Jun 1; 23 (6): 636648636-648.

AbstractAnthropogenic climate change is affecting people's health, including those with neurological and psychiatric diseases. Currently, making inferences about the effect of climate change on neurological and psychiatric diseases is challenging because of an overall sparsity of data, differing study methods, paucity of detail regarding disease subtypes, little consideration of the effect of individual and population genetics, and widely differing geographical locations with the potential for regional influences. However, evidence suggests that the incidence, prevalence, and severity of many nervous system conditions (eg, stroke, neurological infections, and some mental health disorders) can be affected by climate change. The data show broad and complex adverse effects, especially of temperature extremes to which people are unaccustomed and wide diurnal temperature fluctuations. Protective measures might be possible through local forecasting. Few studies project the future effects of climate change on brain health, hindering policy developments. Robust studies on the threats from changing climate for people who have, or are at risk of developing, disorders of the nervous system are urgently needed.Copyright © 2024 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies.

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