“I leaned forward and peered at the screen, narrowing my eyes as I squinted at the mysterious “brain map” that had unfolded before me.
Minutes earlier, I had removed the “God helmet” that had been given to me by my neurofeedback practitioner—the God helmet, in this case, being a tangled mass of wires and probes designed to read my brain waves and assess whether my brainwave patterns were relatively normal or whether my precious neurons were firing away like a host of rabid chihuahuas armed with machine guns.
As Dr. Andrew Hill, head neuroscientist at the Peak Brain Institute in Los Angeles, scrunched up his nose and raised an eyebrow at the results that had unfolded on the screen, I suspected the latter. Damn chihuahuas.”