Peter Gamma (Physiologist & Director) Meditation Research Institute Switzerland (MRIS)

The mystery of Rob ter Hors’s brain scanner revealed

Last Updated on March 9, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

Now Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org has found out about Rob ter Horst’s brain scanner. He has none in his lab. Hed did only have access to one for 1.5 years:

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My name is Rob ter Horst.

  • I am a scientist who is life-logging and quantifying everything about my body, mind and surroundings.
  • My measurements take more than 11 hours a week and include a weekly brain MRI, sleep EEG and gut microbiome composition.
  • I am quite possibly doing the ultimate “quantified self”.
  • As a scientist I specialise in biological informatics, which means I write computer programs to analyse data.
  • I now use these skills to learn more about myself and I try to improve my life.

Rob ter Horst
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  • I was invited by Pint of Science to give a presentation about my self-tracking / quantified self (QS) project.
  • For the last 1.5 years I tracked everything in my life, including weekly MRI-scans, weekly brain-EEGs and weekly microbiome measurements.

Combined this takes me 11 hours a week. I’ll continue doing these measurements for another 9 months.

Rob ter Hort did this for more than 2 years in total.