Author: DynamicBrain Inc.
Publication: Monthly Newsletter
Published Date: September 21, 2019

We continue to see a growing number of prestigious health institutions incorporating our cognitive training program, BrainHQ, into their health care settings. Just joined are McLean Hospital (Harvard Medical School), Northwestern Medicine at Northwestern University, and the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami.

A week ago, Dr. Mary Kay Ross, the founder and CEO of the Brain Health and Research Institute (BHRI), also announced that she would be using BrainHQ in their clinical practices.

With this strong evidence and more than 150 peer-reviewed journal articles, I hope you can pause and reflect on the many lives that have been changed by BrainHQ in the past years. Please feel free to share our wonderful news! And remember, the BrainHQ is a great gift idea for loved ones.

Kind regards, 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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