Neuroscience
Racing Thoughts: Attention, Arousal and Getting Support
Understand several routes to racing thoughts, distinguish helpful brain models from diagnoses, and choose practical next steps for persistent problems.
New Book by Dr. Andrew Hill
Gifted & Tortured
Mastering the Poet-Brain Phenotypes of ADHD, Anxiety, and Autism
Explore Gifted & Tortured, including reader resources and book details.
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Half a Second More
Mindfulness for Brains That Won't Sit Still
Explore Half a Second More and its companion resources at Peak Brain Press.
Articles
Neuroscience
Tinnitus, Misophonia and Earworms: Different Sound Problems
Distinguish persistent tinnitus, reactions to specific sounds and musical imagery, with realistic explanations and appropriate routes to support.
Neuroscience
Daylight Saving Time: Sleep, Health and Your Body Clock
How clock changes affect sleep and circadian timing, what health studies can establish, and practical ways to prepare for the transition.
Neuroscience
Dementia Risk Reduction: What the Evidence Supports
Examine modifiable dementia risk factors, lifestyle trials and the limits of prevention claims, with practical questions for a healthcare visit.
Neuroscience
GLP-1 Drugs and the Brain: Dementia and Alcohol-Use Research
Understand the ELAD and EVOKE Alzheimer trials, early semaglutide findings in alcohol-use disorder, and the limits of extending results to other uses.
Neuroscience
ADHD Brain Types: What the Research Can Tell Us
What brain-imaging studies suggest about variation in ADHD, where proposed subtypes remain uncertain, and what this means for assessment.
Neuroscience
Seven Priorities for Brain Health After 50
Seven evidence-informed areas to discuss and act on after 50, from cardiovascular health to hearing and activity, with realistic expectations.
Neuroscience
Love and the Brain: Reward, Attachment and Social Pain
How researchers study attraction, attachment and rejection, why several brain systems are involved, and the limits of reading feelings from brain scans.
Neurofeedback
Is Neurofeedback Legitimate? Evidence and Limitations
Examine how neurofeedback works, what controlled studies show, and the questions that help distinguish responsible practice from unsupported promises.
Neurofeedback
Remote Neurofeedback: How Home Training Works
Understand home neurofeedback equipment, supervision, recording quality and practical commitments before deciding whether remote training suits you.
Neurofeedback
Neurofeedback for Anxiety: Research and Practical Limits
What anxiety neurofeedback studies have tested, where the evidence remains preliminary, and how brain training fits alongside established care.
Neurofeedback
Does Insurance Cover Neurofeedback? How to Check
Understand why neurofeedback coverage varies, how to check your exact plan, and what to ask about codes, medical necessity and reimbursement.
Neurofeedback
Neurofeedback Cost: Prices, Packages and Questions
Compare neurofeedback program costs, understand what a package includes, and ask useful questions about reassessment, refunds and possible non-response.
Neurofeedback
QEEG Brain Mapping: What It Measures and Its Limits
How quantitative EEG is recorded and interpreted, what affects the results, and the limits of using a brain map to explain symptoms or select training.
Neurofeedback
Neurofeedback for ADHD: What the Evidence Shows
A balanced look at ADHD neurofeedback studies, sham controls, possible benefits and limits, with questions to ask before committing to training.
Biohacking
SMR Neurofeedback: Sleep, Attention and the Evidence
What sensorimotor rhythm training targets, what an insomnia trial found, and why sleep and ADHD outcomes need separate evaluation.
Biohacking
How Long Does It Take to Form a Habit?
What habit-formation research actually found, why timelines vary, and how to choose a repeatable action that fits your daily context.
Biohacking
Brain Photobiomodulation: Evidence and Open Questions
What transcranial red and near-infrared light studies have tested, which findings are preliminary, and why device and treatment claims need care.
Biohacking
Brain Aging in Midlife: Evidence Beyond the Headlines
How to read claims about a critical brain-aging window, distinguish population patterns from personal forecasts, and focus on supported actions.
Biohacking
ADHD Parenting: Understanding the Yelling Cycle
Why family demands and ADHD can turn small conflicts into yelling, with practical ways to reduce friction and know when support would help.
Neurofeedback, Brain Optimization
Alpha Brain Waves: Attention, Memory and Neurofeedback
What alpha rhythms measure, how their meaning changes with attention and recording state, and what alpha neurofeedback studies suggest about memory.
Biohacking
Brain Fog: Possible Causes and a Useful Next Step
Brain fog has many possible causes. Understand the patterns worth tracking, the limits of brain maps, and when a medical evaluation matters.
Biohacking
Time-Restricted Eating: Benefits, Limits and Safety
What time-restricted eating trials show about metabolic health, how meal timing differs from calorie reduction, and who needs individualized guidance.
Biohacking
EEG Phenotypes: Patterns, Uses and Limits
What recurring EEG patterns describe, how recording conditions affect them, and why a brain map needs context before it guides training.
Biohacking
Morning Light and Routines for Your Body Clock
Use a consistent wake time, appropriate light exposure and a manageable morning routine to support sleep timing and daytime alertness.
Biohacking
Neuroplasticity: How Experience Changes the Brain
How practice and experience change brain function, what plasticity can and cannot explain, and how to build conditions for useful learning.
Biohacking
Sensory and Social Processing: Understanding the Load
Why sensory demands and social situations can be tiring, how context changes the load, and what practical accommodations and assessment can offer.
Biohacking
Learning More Effectively: Practice, Sleep and Recall
Use recall, spaced practice and specific feedback to study more effectively, with an accurate account of a sleep and motor-learning experiment.
Biohacking
Remembering More Effectively: Learning, Recall and Daily Cues
Understand different memory problems, use practical learning techniques, and recognize when forgetfulness deserves medical attention.
Biohacking
OCD and the Brain: Treatments and Emerging Research
A clear account of obsessions, compulsions and established OCD treatment, including the mixed evidence on NAC and other proposed add-ons.
Biohacking
Fight or Flight: How the Stress Response Works
How nervous and hormonal systems mobilize the body under stress, with practical ways to understand demands, try comfortable breathing and seek support.
Biohacking
Flow State: Attention, Challenge and the Evidence
What flow research measures, how task difficulty shapes engagement, and what an arithmetic imaging study can teach us about sustained work.
Biohacking
Can You Improve Intelligence? Training and Its Limits
Distinguish improving a practiced task from broader cognitive gains, examine education and brain-training research, and choose useful learning goals.
Biohacking
Changing Bad Habits: Cues, Rewards and Better Defaults
A practical account of cues, rewards and repetition, with ways to change daily habits and recognize patterns that need more support.
Biohacking
Meditation and the Brain: What Studies Actually Show
What meditation trials show about anxiety symptoms and brain structure, including a comparison with escitalopram and limits of eight-week MRI claims.
Biohacking
Sleep and Brain Health: A Practical Evidence Guide
How sleep supports attention and health, what trackers can tell you, and how to approach persistent insomnia, fatigue or possible sleep apnea.
Biohacking
Anxiety and the Brain: Evidence and Practical Options
How threat learning, attention and bodily arousal interact in anxiety, with a clear account of established care and emerging brain-training research.
Biohacking
Starting Mindfulness: Attention, Practice and Support
A practical introduction to mindfulness: what to do with wandering attention, how to build regular practice, and when guidance or adaptation helps.
Biohacking
Procrastination: Making the Next Action Easier
Understand the role of task friction, emotion and attention in procrastination, then build a small, concrete plan for starting and following through.