Biohacking My Broken Brain

Before: things weren't quite right, but weren't quite so wrong

Flashing back to moments of sensitization in the before-times

May 8 •

James, armchair neuroscientist

New

This is how a rough patch becomes a pharmaceutical spiral

A story like countless others, which could have been avoided with up-front warnings and more awareness

Apr 26 •

James, armchair neuroscientist

Chicago's Mind-Eye Institute can work miracles

But it doesn't appear likely to work for me

Apr 25 •

James, armchair neuroscientist

Firing electrons at the brain to revive willpower and attention

After years of pain, I lost these two of my superpowers

Apr 23 •

James, armchair neuroscientist

Testing the bacterial hypothesis

Novel therapy in Europe appears to be both safer and more accurate, but it isn't well researched

Apr 22 •

James, armchair neuroscientist

Three theories about what happened

And a dizzying array of treatment suggestions

Apr 21 •

James, armchair neuroscientist

I couldn't see straight. Everything started to feel strange. I thought it would pass.

That was more than two years ago

Apr 20 •

James, armchair neuroscientist

Biohacking My Broken Brain

When the medical system was left mystified, I had to become my own neuroscientific experiment. This is a living investigation into recovery after a medication-induced injury to my brain. Here's my hellish, hopeful path back to human perception.

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