Companies are producing consumer-focused devices based on neuroscience to help our brains optimize to their fullest.

It launches in beta this year and will be available to the general public in early 2022.

So it’s a tiny mental activity, but the brain decides to do that as well.

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We, as consumers, really like life hacks.

Are there risks that might moderate that?

According to anessay published in the journal Science, regulatory oversight of direct-to-consumer neurotechnologies is insufficient.

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I think it’s important to raise the questions, she said.

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