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Where can I learn more about neurohacking - are there communities or tools?
For hundreds of curated scientific and general audience books, articles, and other sources used in the research and writing of the book, Smarter Tomorrow, check out the Notes in the back. Each chapter has its own set of sources, so it's also easy to navigate from, say, the section on air pollution and mental performance (in chapter 6 "Debugging Yourself"), to the original research studies cited in the back of the book.
There are growing communities 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 amp your social process.
Inspirations and examples of projects from around the world:
For hundreds of curated scientific and general audience books, articles, and other sources used in the research and writing of the book, Smarter Tomorrow, check out the Notes in the back. Each chapter has its own set of sources, so it's also easy to navigate from, say, the section on air pollution and mental performance (in chapter 6 "Debugging Yourself"), to the original research studies cited in the back of the book.
There are growing communities 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 amp your social process.
Inspirations 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
- 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
- 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