Digital brain health start-up Neurotrack raises $6.5m to market cognitive assessment and intervention

Neu­ro­track rais­es $6.5M for cog­ni­tive assess­ment tool, man­age­ment pro­gram (Mobi­Health News): “Palo Alto-based Neu­ro­track, which has devel­oped an online cog­ni­tive assess­ment test, raised $6.5 mil­lion in a round led by Khosla Ven­tures with par­tic­i­pa­tion from Social Cap­i­tal, Founders Fund, AME Cloud Ven­tures, and iSeed Ventures. 

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To address the upcoming Alzheimer’s “epidemic”, let’s approach 2016 with these 4 Pillars of Alzheimer’s Prevention

. As you prob­a­bly know, we are in a health care cri­sis. The num­ber of peo­ple with Alzheimer’s dis­ease con­tin­ues to sky-rock­­et as peo­ple age and may reach cri­sis pro­por­tions.  A nation­al goal has been set to pre­vent and cure Alzheimer’s by 2020 or no lat­er than 2025, with a lion’s share of this money…

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Trend: Nestle launches Wellness Club in Japan integrating Nutritionists and Brain Trainers

Match made in nutri­tion­al heav­en: Nestlé launch­es Well­ness Club (press release): ‘Nestlé Japan has launched the company’s first per­son­alised health sup­port ser­vice. Nestlé Well­ness Club pro­vides sub­scribers with nutri­tion­al sup­port based on data about their phys­i­cal activ­i­ty, dietary infor­ma­tion and brain train­ing scores, 

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Final 6 hours to join online course How to Navigate Conventional and Complementary ADHD Treatments for Healthy Brain Development

. Heads-up: Reg­is­tra­tion for the upcom­ing online course How to Nav­i­gate Con­ven­tion­al and Com­ple­men­tary ADHD Treat­ments for Healthy Brain Devel­op­ment, fea­tur­ing Duke Uni­ver­si­ty’s Dr. David Rabin­er, ends in less than 48 hours. Click Here to learn more and reg­is­ter. The course starts this Tues­day, May 12th! Course descrip­tion: In order to suc­cess­fully pro­mote children’s healthy brain devel­op­ment, every 

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Study: Dietary interventions can help children with ADHD (especially with proper monitoring and adjustment)

Are dietary inter­ven­tions effec­tive for treat­ing ADHD? This has been a con­tro­ver­sial ques­tion over the years with strong pro­po­nents on both sides of the issue. For many par­ents and pro­fes­sion­als, try­ing to parse through the dif­fer­ent claims about the impact of diet on ADHD has been chal­leng­ing and confusing.

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