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In today’s fast-paced world, maintaining mental health hygiene is more important than ever. Just as we brush our teeth and exercise to keep our bodies healthy, building strong mental habits is essential for optimal cognitive performance and well-being. Building healthy mental hygiene habits is a complex challenge for many reasons, primarily due to a lack of accurate data and personalized biofeedback. Unlike physical health, which can be tracked through steps, heart rate, or calories burned, mental health and cognitive performance often go unmeasured. As a result, most people rely on subjective cues like feeling tired, distracted, or overwhelmed to determine when their brain needs rest or a change in activity. Unfortunately, by the time these signs are noticeable, cognitive fatigue and mental strain have already set in, leading to compromised performance, poor decision-making, and burnout.
Many existing systems that aim to promote focus, such as time-blocking techniques like the Pomodoro method, have limitations. While these approaches encourage taking breaks and working in intervals, they fail to account for the unique needs and cognitive rhythms of each individual. They follow a one-size-fits-all approach, which can disrupt focus rather than enhance it. If you're in a state of deep concentration but a timer forces you to stop, you might lose your productive momentum. Conversely, if you're struggling to concentrate and continue pushing through without tailored interventions, you risk mental fatigue and burnout.
This challenge impacts people's day-to-day lives in profound ways. Without an accurate understanding of when and how to take breaks, people often oscillate between periods of intense focus and moments of exhaustion. This cycle can lead to stress, decreased productivity, and a sense of frustration with their own performance. In the workplace, cognitive fatigue reduces creativity, increases error rates, and diminishes overall job satisfaction. For students, it can lead to ineffective study habits and poor retention. For anyone juggling a busy schedule, the lack of effective mental health hygiene can exacerbate feelings of overwhelm and anxiety.
By providing data-driven biofeedback, the MW75 Neuro and the Neurable app help overcome these challenges. Rather than relying on guesswork, users gain real-time insights into their mental state, allowing them to build healthier, more sustainable mental hygiene habits tailored to their unique needs. This personalized approach not only optimizes performance but also fosters a greater sense of control over one’s mental well-being, transforming how people navigate their daily lives. Here's how:
Daily Motivation and Habit Building
One of the key principles of building strong mental health hygiene is consistency. The Neurable app motivates you to engage in focused work every day, helping you establish a routine of incremental effort instead of relying on last-minute cramming or overwhelming bursts of productivity. The idea is to score 100 points of focus each day which equates to 50 minutes in high focus or 100 minutes in low focus. While we expect most people to blow past 100 points daily at their typical job, the 100 points serves as an achievable goal to motivate you on the days or tasks you are prone to procrastinate on. If you do go beyond 100 points you also gain some small trophies to celebrate your success. Basically we are leveraging dopamine to help you be better mentally. This approach encourages the creation of sustainable habits that lead to long-term success and better mental balance. By carving out manageable periods of deep work, you reduce stress and improve focus, making every day a step towards better mental wellness.
Tracking Trends and Focus Efficiency
Understanding how various factors impact your ability to focus is crucial for building mental health hygiene. While you engage in deep work sessions, the Neurable app tracks trends in your cognitive performance. It monitors your brain so you can see how distractions, cognitive fatigue, and environmental factors influence your focus, providing valuable insights into what helps or hinders your productivity. Sometimes we don’t make changes until we see the data and the Neurable App let’s you do just that.
The app offers specific metrics to gauge the efficiency of your focused work time, which are then transformed into "Focus Efficiency Points." These points act as tangible indicators of how well you are managing your cognitive load and provide a baseline for continuous improvement. By tracking these metrics, you gain a deeper understanding of your mental habits, paving the way for better focus and reduced stress.
Real-Time Interventions to Prevent Fatigue
Using data collected during your work sessions, the Neurable app can create real-time interventions to maximize your cognitive performance. For example, our system can detect when your brain is transitioning from a high-focus state to a low-focus state. This critical moment is often when productivity begins to decline and fatigue sets in. Instead of waiting for you to feel exhausted or distracted—a subjective realization that may already be too late—the Neurable app proactively suggests taking a break.
These timely interventions allow you to rest and recover before cognitive fatigue compromises your performance. A quick break, guided by brain data, can rejuvenate you and enable you to return to work feeling refreshed and deeply focused. This approach ensures that you’re not just working hard but working smart, maximizing the efficiency of your mental energy.
See below how taking breaks helped me stay continuously in high focus. Most importantly looking at my focus efficiency points the productivity gained from taking a break far makes up for the time lost (76 vs 86 points). This efficiency effect compounds the longer your focused sessions are.
Personalized Insights for Optimal Performance
The Neurable app doesn’t stop at providing real-time feedback; it also delivers personalized insights to help you optimize your mental health hygiene over the long term. By analyzing your cognitive data, the app can identify patterns such as the best times of day for deep focus or the types of tasks you find easiest to concentrate on.
With this information, you can plan your work more effectively, tackling your hardest tasks during peak focus periods and saving less demanding activities for when motivation wanes. This personalized approach allows you to make data-driven decisions that align with your cognitive rhythms, helping you get the most out of your mental energy while avoiding burnout.
The MW75 Neuro and Neurable app offers a holistic, science-driven approach to building mental health hygiene. By encouraging daily habits, tracking trends in your focus, providing real-time interventions, and delivering personalized insights, they empower you to take control of your cognitive well-being. In a world where mental health is often neglected, Neurable’s technology offers a pathway to better focus, reduced stress, and sustainable productivity. This is more than a tool, it’s a commitment to a healthier, more focused you.
2 Distraction Stroop Tasks experiment: The Stroop Effect (also known as cognitive interference) is a psychological phenomenon describing the difficulty people have naming a color when it's used to spell the name of a different color. During each trial of this experiment, we flashed the words “Red” or “Yellow” on a screen. Participants were asked to respond to the color of the words and ignore their meaning by pressing four keys on the keyboard –– “D”, “F”, “J”, and “K,” -- which were mapped to “Red,” “Green,” “Blue,” and “Yellow” colors, respectively. Trials in the Stroop task were categorized into congruent, when the text content matched the text color (e.g. Red), and incongruent, when the text content did not match the text color (e.g., Red). The incongruent case was counter-intuitive and more difficult. We expected to see lower accuracy, higher response times, and a drop in Alpha band power in incongruent trials. To mimic the chaotic distraction environment of in-person office life, we added an additional layer of complexity by floating the words on different visual backgrounds (a calm river, a roller coaster, a calm beach, and a busy marketplace). Both the behavioral and neural data we collected showed consistently different results in incongruent tasks, such as longer reaction times and lower Alpha waves, particularly when the words appeared on top of the marketplace background, the most distracting scene.
Interruption by Notification: It’s widely known that push notifications decrease focus level. In our three Interruption by Notification experiments, participants performed the Stroop Tasks, above, with and without push notifications, which consisted of a sound played at random time followed by a prompt to complete an activity. Our behavioral analysis and focus metrics showed that, on average, participants presented slower reaction times and were less accurate during blocks of time with distractions compared to those without them.
