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Where can I learn more about neurohacking - are there communities or tools?
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There are growing pockets around the world interested in learning more about their brains and cognition in self-driven ways. You may have heard of the Quantified Self, Maker Movement, Hacker movements, DIY, project-based learning? If not, check out these links to start your learning process.

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nspirations and examples of projects from around the world:
  • Communities organized around neurotechnology, biohacking, or self-tracking
    • Quantified Self: quantifiedself.com
    • Brainhack: brainhack.org. 
    • Biohacking Meetups: meetup.com/topics/biohacking
    • Reddit Nootropics reddit.com/r/Nootropics
 
  • Selected self-tracking and self-experimentation projects
    • Measured me: measuredme.com
    • 10 months at Harvard, quantified: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6102249 and moalquraishi.wordpress.com/2013/07/24/10-months-at-harvard-quantified/
    • Quantified anatomy of a paper: moalquraishi.wordpress.com/2014/11/02/the-quantified-anatomy-of-a-paper/
    • Stephen Wolfram: blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytics-of-my-life/
 
  • Mental performance testing online
    • Mental health screeners (these are intended to provide overviews of your mental health broadly, although they are often focused on emotional health. Being general purpose, they are not specific to particular mental health conditions): https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/tests/health/mental-health-assessment 
      https://screening.mentalhealthscreening.org/hyho 
      https://www.heretohelp.bc.ca/screening/online/?screen=wellbeing
    • Cognition screeners
      • Quantified Mind (Stanford and Google researchers) quantified-mind.com/
      • Cambridge Brain Sciences (former Cambridge neuroscientists).cambridgebrainsciences.com 
      • Test My Brain Test (Harvard researchers) testmybrain.org
 
  • Other related work
    • Cognitive hacking and other hacking: gwern.net/#qs
    • General audience book extolling the importance of studying individual differences: The End of Average (disclaimer: this was written by founder Elizabeth Ricker's graduate school advisor)
    • Brain Awareness Week dana.org/baw/resources/ and dana.org/BAW/TipsandResource/ 
 
  • DIY Neuroscience and "makers"
    • NeuroTechX: neurotechx.com
    • tDCS (~$5-10) youtube.com/watch?v=xjpJPCTytP8
    • EEG (~$65 at most) sites.google.com/site/chipstein/home-page and ERicker’s fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.15/section.Harvard/people/Ricker/htm/Final_Project.html

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  • Free Resources
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      • Creativity Self-Experiment: Placebo
      • Executive Function Self-Experiment: Placebo
      • Executive Function Self-Experiment: Movement
      • Memory Self-Experiment
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