The first photo is from winter 2019. I was trying to figure out how to make a custom-built EEG system work with a my custom-built acquisition software.

The second photo is from summer 2024. I was in Austria, testing another EEG setup, this time making sure I could record clean, meaningful signals while being stimulated by my custom built electromagnetic shielded pair of goggles delivering 60Hz light.

Not much is really the same between those two pictures. The first was in Iran, the second in Austria. My friends from that first photo are now thousands of miles away, and I’m older now — maybe a bit wiser too.

But one thing is the same: I didn’t give up in either of them. Back in 2019, the EEG system didn’t work for days, and I kept at it. In 2024, when my designs failed for weeks, I kept going again.

Sometimes I look at these two photos to remind myself that it doesn’t matter where I am, how I’m feeling, what others say, or even when things don’t seem to work. The only thing that matters is persistence as it always works out in the end. Maybe that’s the secret of this world. That’s what I call resilience — an art in itself..

Also, my new paper is out in PLOS ONE!

We explored the effects of long-term (3-week) daily 60Hz visual stimulation in healthy humans, and the results are quite interesting. In short, it looks like the brain’s plasticity window opens up and begins to adapt to this stimulation which is exactly the foundation of what we’re building at Syntropic.