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

What has become of Alexandre Barachant’s mission to bring a low-cost, open hardware research-grade EEG to the masses?

Last Updated on May 1, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

Alexandre Barachant, PhD writes on his personal site that he is:

  • an Electrical Engineer
  • turned Signal Processing PhD
  • turned Data Scientist

But on his personal website, he writes for instance that his mission is to bring a low-cost, Open Hardware, Research-grade EEG to the masses:

https://alexandre.barachant.org

  • Is Alexandre Brarachant not best known for his Muse LSL, which can be found in his GITHUB site:

https://github.com/alexandrebarachant/muse-lsl

  • But what does he do currently?
  • Train is brain with a brain scanner?

Before his training with a brain scanner?:

(no, no, we are only joking). This picture can be found on Alexandre Barachant’s GITHUB site where he currently has 538 followers:

https://github.com/alexandrebarachant

Before his training with a brain scanner:

After his training with a brain scanner?

And he know writes US Patents for training the brain with a brain scanner?

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=de&user=d7ZVePwAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

But unfortunately, we did not find such a patent yet from Alexandre Barachant 20 years after the paper:

Long-term meditators self-induce high-amplitude gamma synchrony during mental practice:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0407401101