![]() ![]() As she began Electrogelling the 19 spots on my head that aligned with the cap’s electrodes, I was nervous in two different directions: one, that my brain would be revealed as suboptimal, underfunctioning, deficient. Kerson placed the cap on my head and clipped two sensors on to my earlobes, areas of no electrical activity, to act as baselines. I kept thinking about this line I’d read in a book by Paul Swingle, a Canadian psychoneurophysiologist who uses brain maps to identify neurological abnormalities: “The brain tells us everything.” So I’ll admit that I was thinking of this brain map in overly fanciful terms: It would be like a personality test but scientific. I suppose it stems from the feeling that there is something uniquely and specially wrong with me, and wanting to know all about it. ![]() I’m the kind of person who procrastinates with personality tests I’m susceptible to the way they target that place where self-loathing and narcissism overlap. These days, she’s so busy teaching and consulting that she no longer runs her individual practice, but she agreed to bring out her brain-mapping equipment for me: snug-fitting cloth caps in various sizes a tube of Electrogel, a conductive goo a black box made by BrainMaster Technologies that would receive my brain’s signals and spit them out into her computer. But she also worked with elite athletes who wanted to improve their performance, as well as people suffering from chronic pain and anxiety and schizophrenia and a host of other disorders. Kerson used to have a clinic in Marin County, where she primarily saw children with ADHD, using neurotherapy techniques to help them learn to focus. ![]()
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