Author: DynamicBrain Inc.
Publication: Monthly Newsletter
Published Date: June 21, 2022

June is Brain Injury Awareness Month in Canada. Last week, I read an article in the Toronto Star about 1.5 million Canadians suffering from this invisible disability, and it deeply saddened me that there was no reference to cognitive training. BrainHQ is helping thousands of the US Department of Defense servicemembers and veterans living with brain injury and is offered by Medicare and insurers. So why don’t the Canadian health care system and clinicians focus on recovery and prevention through scientifically-validated cognitive training that costs pennies and has no side effect? (See BrainHQ’s published studies on Traumatic Brain Injury)

Please take your brain health seriously and do your training today. If you still don’t have full access, you can join now.

Kind regards, Frieda Fanni President DynamicBrain Inc. DynamicBrain Inc. is the Canadian partner of Posit Science Corporation since 2010 providing brain fitness program BrainHQ in English and French.

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