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Related Party Transactions | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2018
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Related Party Transactions | 7. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS During the three months ended March 31, 2018 and 2017, the Company paid $3 thousand and $18 thousand in consulting fees to certain directors of the Company, respectively. In April 2016, the Company entered into a consulting agreement with Montel Media, Inc. (“Montel Media”), pursuant to which Montel Media provides consulting services for the promotion of the Company’s clinical trials and ongoing media and marketing strategies. Under the agreement, Montel Media received $15,000 per month. The Company paid Montel Media $45 thousand each during the three months ended March 31, 2018 and 2017 towards the consulting agreement. During the first quarter of 2018, the Company terminated its agreement with Montel Media. Montel Media is owned by Montel Williams, who beneficially owns greater than 5% of the Company’s common stock. For the three months ended March 31, 2018 and 2017, a benefit of $0.2 million and an expense of $48 thousand was included in the change in fair value of derivative financial instruments as the fair value of stock-based compensation attributed to the options granted to a director for consulting services rendered with respect to the design and development of the PoNS device. The Company’s Chief Medical Officer is a founding member of Clinvue LLC, (“Clinvue”), a company that provides regulatory advisory services for the Company. For the three months ended March 31, 2018, the Company paid Clinvue approximately $0.1 million for consulting services. The Company made no payment to Clinvue for the three months ended March 31, 2017. In connection with the December 2017 private placement, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, its Chief Financial Officer/Chief Operating Officer, two directors and A&B, a greater than 5% owner of the Company’s shares outstanding subscribed in the private placement. The following table summarizes their participation (subscription amounts in thousands):
| Units Purchased |  |  | Subscription Amount |
A&B (HK) Company Ltd. |  | 204,081 |  |  | $ | 2,000 |
Director 1 |  | 76,530 |  |  |  | 750 |
Director 2 |  | 51,019 |  |  |  | 500 |
CEO |  | 25,510 |  |  |  | 250 |
CFO/COO |  | 15,816 |  |  |  | 155 |
|  | 372,956 |  |  | $ | 3,655 |

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- Definition The entire disclosure for related party transactions. Examples of related party transactions include transactions between (a) a parent company and its subsidiary; (b) subsidiaries of a common parent; (c) and entity and its principal owners; and (d) affiliates. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 850 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2122745 + Details
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