Always enthusiastic for new experiences, I went in for brain mapping and came away with a new understanding on how my actions are impacting the quality of my brain
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I am in the era of self-awareness, self-exploration, and self-analysis. So, it made sense for me to try brain mapping — all for the good of me, of course. I have known neuroscientist Kumaar Bagrodia for a while, and decided to visit his initiative, NeuroLeap, which is India’s leading applied Neuroscience company leveraging Brain Computer Interface technology for better mental health and brain enhancement.
I reached NeuroLeap and was taken into a room with a TV screen, a work station for an operator, and a comfortable chair for me to sit on. I was told to relax as a wearable device, like a cap of sorts, was fit on my head. The brain-computer interface (BCI) is a collaboration between the brain and a device that enables signals from the brain to direct some external activity.
I was told to relax as much as I could — I had to even control my eyeball activity! Oh, that was hard. But soon, I was drifting off, and as I breathed in and out, I almost slept off in the chair. Forty minutes later, I was done.
The next day, Bagrodia sat down and explained my results to me, and it was enlightening to say the least. That the non-invasive procedure could learn so much about me, and give me insight into my behavioural patterns without asking me any personal questions, was astonishing.
The best part: Bagrodia told me my brain, in fact, is quite amazing. Lol, tell me something I don’t know. But on a serious note, he told me that I am perceptive, nuanced, and get to know people easily. I am process-oriented and I know how to read between the lines. Also, that I am very intuitive — Aah, it was nice to hear that because I have a habit of ignoring my intuition.
The concerning bits: He told me that because I was such an over thinker, that I had lost my ability to chill. I couldn’t switch off, and that’s why the connections in my brain were frayed — Maybe that’s what it means when someone says that your brain is fried!
The solution: Bagrodia then gave me a list of things I could do to begin my healing, which includes going to bed early, early sunlight exposure, physical exercise, and taking probiotics and Vitamin B12 and D. He also told me to sit for an hour without doing anything — no scrolling, no watching TV, doing nothing.
The whole session made me rethink my life choices. But it made me aware of the fact that we don’t realise how much damage we are causing our brains with our unhealthy habits and patterns. We ignore how our overthinking, stressing and holding on to things not good for us, can affect the entire state of our brain. I am glad I now know, so I can make the necessary changes.
The expert tells you how it works
Kumaar Bagrodia, lead neuroscientist, NeuroLeap
Can you explain how the technology works?
Your answers to mental health tests are conscious, self-reported and influenced by present mood, stress, sleep, hormones, environment, and recent events. Also education, culture, language, and social background shape your answers. Yet, these subjective global approaches are used to assign diagnostic labels around anxiety or depression and start to feel like identity. But these are just descriptions of how you feel, not an explanation of what’s actually happening.
The NeuroLeap Brain Function Assessment is an objective method that directly reads your brainwaves and analyses your in depth subconscious brain patterns. These create your feelings, emotions, behaviour, habits, perceptions, personality, cognitive abilities, anxiety, attention, mood, addiction and more. Then, in a detailed session with the neuroscientist, clients understand the WHY behind their feelings. It’s an empowering first step when they realise they don’t have to be labelled on the basis of these objective patterns which can be changed. They get a plan to change these underlying brain patterns so that the symptoms are resolved without counselling or medications.
How would you suggest the client follow up?
The NeuroLeap Brain Enhancement programme provides regular sessions to help the brain change its own subconscious patterns from within (without any electric current or magnetic waves). In each session, the client’s brain patterns are mapped every fraction of a second continuously for 30 minutes whilst they simultaneously see live feedback on a TV screen about how their subconscious brain patterns are performing. The brain is constantly shifting between healthier and less optimal patterns in fractions of a second. When it moves toward a healthier state, client sees and hears a reward on the screen; when it doesn’t, there is no reward. Over multiple sessions, the brain learns to perform these healthier patterns on its own, improving how it functions, without conscious effort.
Cost: Rs 25,000 for the NeuroLeap Brain Function Assessment (includes the report and the detailed consultation and custom plan with leading neuroscientist)
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