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

We continue to see heartwarming results from dementia studies that use our BrainHQ cognitive training program. A very recent one, published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease on July 4, suggests that a personalized approach to treating those at highest risk of dementia may not just be protective against dementia, but may slow or even reverse advanced cognitive decline. Learn more.

Please remember to do your brain training today and, if you still don’t have full access to BrainHQ, don’t delay and 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.

The mechanism behind memory loss
Your hippocampus is the part of the brain that scientists think stores long-term memories. There, neurons work together to carry out a pair of memory functions called pattern separation and pattern completion. When everything is working well, like in young healthy brains, the pair of memory functions are balanced. But with age-related memory loss, these functions can swing out of balance. A research team from John Hopkins University has discovered the mechanism that causes this imbalance. Read on to find out more.

Apple of one’s eye
When parents and babies bond, they lock eyes. That’s how babies first interpret cues from their caregivers. They rely on a visual rhythm to develop cognitively, emotionally, and socially. So, during a baby’s early years, their visual processing system is particularly vital. For the first time, research has revealed that infants who later develop autism as toddlers have biological differences in the visual processing regions of their brains, even before symptoms of autism appear. Learn what the study’s results suggest.

Benefits of mindfulness
Mindfulness meditation has been used for centuries to help people manage their pain. But does this type of pain management actually work and, if so, how does it work on the neurological level? Only recently have scientists been able to put these questions to the test. In a recent study, researchers measured how practising mindfulness affects people’s pain perception and brain activity. Find out what their study uncovered.