Dementia in Africa: Current evidence, knowledge gaps, and future directions.

Address: Neuroscience and Ageing Research Unit, Institute for Advanced Medical Research and Training, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.; Centre for Genomic and Precision Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.; Department of Neurology, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria.; Department of Psychiatry University College Hospital/College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.; INSERM, Univ. Limoges, CHU Limoges, IRD, U1094 Tropical Neuroepidemiology, Institute of Epidemiology and Tropical Neurology, GEIST, Limoges, France.; Neurology Unit, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Idi Araba, Lagos, Nigeria.; Department of Neurology, Yaoundé Central Hospital/Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, The University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon.; Brain Research Africa Initiative (BRAIN), Geneva, Switzerland/Yaoundé, Cameroon.; Department of Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana.; Department of Medicine, University of Ghana Medical School/Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana.; Department of Radiology, University College Hospital/College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.; Department of Neurology, University Teaching Hospital, Parakou, Benin.; Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University, UK/Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust, Gateshead, UK.; Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi and African Meatal Health and Training Foundation, Nairobi, Kenya.; Kilimanjaro Christian Medical College, Moshi, Tanzania.; College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.; Mirembe Mental Health Hospital, Dodoma, Tanzania.; Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana.; Lufuno Neuropsychiatry Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa.; Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.; Lawson Health Research Institute / Department of Medical Biophysics, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada.; Department of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique.; Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer's & Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio, Texas, USA.; John T. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics and the Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA.; Global Brain Health Institute, Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.; Global Brain Health Institute, Memory and Aging Center, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.; Department of Medicine, North Tyneside General Hospital, North Shields, UK.; Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK.