Author: DynamicBrain Inc.
Publication: Monthly Newsletter
Published Date: June 20, 2018

Among a few other periods of the calendar year, June serves as the Alzheimer's & Brain Awareness month. As such, I would like to take this opportunity to share with you the results of a recent, large scale study on dementia called the ACTIVE trial. In the study, researchers found that people who completed speed of processing training cut their long-term, dementia risk by a very significant 29%. But for those who trained the most, they saw their risk almost halved with a 48% reduction!

What Is Speed of Processing Training?
It’s an online cognitive training exercise that increases visual processing speed and is exclusively available as “Double Decision” in BrainHQ. If you are not yet a regular user of BrainHQ, please feel free to try the exercise here.

In this month of June, I would encourage you to share the results of this life-changing study. Doing so, may well help someone near and dear to your heart, by keeping their memories vividly sharp.

Thank you, Frieda Fanni President DynamicBrain Inc. DynamicBrain Inc. is the Canadian partner of Posit Science Corporation providing brain fitness program BrainHQ in English and French.

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