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Mendi is a cutting-edge brain health device that has been designed to help people to improve their brain function through an unique neurofeedback technology.

Improve Your Health Brain & Mental Health with Mendi

Mendi Introduction & Review by Rd Cody Rall

Once Mendi headband is on your forehead and is connected to Mendi app via your mobile phone or tablet, it will allow you to train your brain in a training game – simply control the ball with your brain in a training game  and make it rise. Your brain activity will then be reported to you at the end of each session. With a few sessions a week, you will see amazing effects.

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How Mendi Works

Unlike others neurofeedback devices that are based on measuring electroencephalography (EEG) or brainwaves, Mendi uses functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) neurofeedback. fNIRs detects changes in the brain’s local blood flow and oxygenation in response to neural activation. Mendi’s fNIRS high-fidelity signals are processed with proprietary algorithms to create simple, visually comprehensible, and easy-to-learn local feedback signals. The key aspect of this technology is that it measures the brain’s response to changes in activation, which allows for much more efficient and precise neurofeedback training.

The fNIRS sensor is placed over the forehead, and beneath it is the prefrontal cortex (PFC) which plays a key role in the mental processes of the Executive Function (e. g. focus and working memory). fNIRS neurofeedback is similar to weight training for the PFC – with repeated training lasting structural and functional neuroplasticity will occur. It is like a neural training and its effects are persistent.

Meet Mendi's Designer - CoFounder/CTO Rickard Eckloff Interview by Dr Cody Rall

Please check this interesting interview of Mendi’s inventor himself explaining the science behind the device and how it works. Most interestingly they explain the importance of oxygenation  for the health of your brain.

Mendi Training Tutorial for Higher Scores and Better Flowstate by Dr Cody Rall

Dr Cody rall describes how he uses Mendi in his daily routine and its beneficial effects.

Simon Kohl published a paper “The potential of functional NIR spectrocopy – based neurofeedback – a systematic review and recommendation “for best practice “that provides a review on 22 peer-reviewed studies on fT-NIRS-neurofeedback and suggested that the most significant results in test subjects happened after 30 days training sessions. This is certainly why Mendi recommends to train everyday for at least 4 to 8 weeks because you see an increase in average of neuronal activity which is one of the 3 parts of the Mendi performance metric.

Cody recommends that you establish your daily routine including 10 min of training using Mendi. He has himself observed great results – it was more easy to maintain attention – after only 3 weeks training.

I haven’t managed yet to practice everyday but with a few sessions per week I have noticed great improvements.

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How Can You Expect Mendi Training of Your Frontal Cortex to Actually Affect Your Everyday Life?

Benefits

Mendi can help sharpening your mental acuity which includes:

  • Deep Focus
  • Selective Attention
  • Cognitive Flexibility
  • Self-control
  • Emotion Regulation
  • Motivation
  • Working Memory

Cognitive Function in Children

Children with more cognitive functions have shown to be more prepared for school than others-children with high IQ or high entry level math skills.

How to Improve your Focus Using Mindfulness Based Intention Training Protocole

This protocole that is based on published papers & a book – Peak Mind by Amishi Jha has been validated with Mendi – increase of oxygen flow in the prefrontal cortex.

The protocole involves:

  1. Check your mood, how you feel emotionally before starting anything – the exercise already requires to recruit more circuits in your brain that you can use later into your mindfulness practice – like meditation
  2. Check your body – scan your body starting from your toes up to your head; check if there is any tension, discomfort or relaxed points. Here as well the body scan improves your blood flow into the prefrontal cortex.
  3. Concentration exercice like doing a meditation.

Cody explains that priming is an essentiel step that you don’t want to skip. It will greatly improve your experience during your meditation practice by recruiting the required oxygen into your prefrontal cortex. Without those steps you could stay at a superficiel level and miss the benefits of the full exercise.