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Top 10 Cognitive Fitness Events of 2008 to be Unveiled at SharpBrains' Webinar
Date:12/2/2008

> The Top 10 Events that will be discussed include:
1) February: Dakim secures a $10.6 million investment from Galen Partners. Jack LaLanne becomes spokesperson.
2) April: The Government of Ontario, Canada, invests $10 million in Baycrest to develop and commercialize cognitive fitness technologies.
3) April: University of Michigan researchers reveal in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences how computerized working memory training can generalize and improve fluid intelligence in healthy adults.
4) May: Humana unveils Games for Health initiatives, not renewing its agreement with Posit Science.
5) June: The US Army launches a new policy requiring cognitive screenings of all soldiers before deployment (in order to better diagnose potential brain-based disorders such as PTSD and TBI upon return).
6) June: Lumos Labs secures $3m investment from FirstMark Capital and Norwest Venture Partners.
7) July: health insurer OptumHealth announces a 3-year, $18 million agreement with Brain Resource to offer web-based cognitive assessments to inform clinical diagnostics and treatments.
8) August: CogniFit secures $5 million from Milk Capital.
9) September: The Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 is signed into law.
10) October: Allstate launches a large-scale research project to measure the impact of Posit Science InSight on driver safety for adults aged 50-75.

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