While climate change affects everyone, people with neurological diseases are among those most vulnerable to its health impacts. Recognising these concerns, the world’s first conference on climate change and neuroscience, ‘Hot Brain’, was held at UCL in May 2023. The second in this series, ‘Hot Brain 2: Climate Change and Brain Health’, organised jointly with The Lancet Neurology, addressed further important aspects of climate change impacts on neurological diseases. The authors of this paper provide a report on the Hot Brain 2 meeting that took place at the University College London (UCL) Queen Square Institute of Neurology on 16 May 2024.

Mills JD, Gulcebi MI, Allatt J, et al. Climate change and neurological diseases: report from the Hot Brain 2: Climate Change and Brain Health meeting, 2024. BMJ Neurol Open 2024; 6:e000929. doi:10.1136/bmjno-2024-000929

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