Author: DynamicBrain Inc.
Publication: Monthly Newsletter
Published Date: June 18, 2019
I would like to share a quote from Dr. Michael Merzenich, the brain behind our BrainHQ program, who helped us to avoid unnecessary brain aging and stay sharp as we get older.
“Science tells us that a key to sustaining and growing our neurological abilities is seriousness of purpose. I am old enough to have retired, but shall not withdraw to a life of ease and comfort because I know that the brain slowly dies when nothing that it does, matters to it…what sustains your brain sustains you!”
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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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