Brain training just got an upgrade. But do the ideas and practices behind ‘neurohacking’ actually work?
‘Neurohacking’ refers to any process that aims to improve brain function. Image: Getty
Imagine your brain is a piece of hardware, where hacks, methods and treatments can be applied to manipulate, tweak and upgrade it to reveal its true potential. This is loosely the basis of neurohacking, which is simply any process that aims to improve brain function to improve a person’s experience of the world.
The process has its roots in the “life hacking” movement of the 1970s, bolstered by Romanian chemist Corneliu Giurgea who proposed the term “nootropics” to describe chemical substances that improve brain function and the use of mind-altering substances. It’s also connected to the “biohacking” movement,…