Author: DynamicBrain Inc.
Publication: Monthly Newsletter
Published Date: March 19, 2020
A brand new published study conducted by the University of Rochester on amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment (aMCI) using BrainHQ has shown significant gains across a wide variety of measures, including physical health (heart rate variability), cognition (speed and attention), and neurological health (brain connectivity in networks governing behaviour, thought, and successful adaptation to stress). This is important because an earlier study in 2009 had found that about 49% of people with aMCI progressed to Alzheimer’s within 30 months of their diagnosis.
While our social responsibility and self-care during this unfortunate outbreak is keeping many of us at home, I do hope that you will take advantage of this unique opportunity and take your brain health to its next level by working out on BrainHQ’s “Focus on Visual Processing” course that was used in the study mentioned above. If you need more information, please let me know.
Keep safe!
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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Alzheimer’s and amino acids
Scientists have found that an amino acid called L-serine could be the key to restoring memory function. Our brain is a high consumer of the energy available to our body, and previous studies have shown that there is a reduction in the energy metabolism of patients in the early phases of Alzheimer’s disease. A study in a mouse model now shows that the drop in energy levels impacts the production of L-serine amino acid which is essential for brain function and the establishment of memory.
Learn more
here.
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Find out more
here.
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