Curing my Anxiety : An N=1 Report on 84 Days of Cognitive Control Training (CCT)

How a cutting-edge protocol allowed me to rewire my brain and elevate my baseline psychometric metrics.

Three months ago, I began experiencing relatively serious emotional problems. Faced with this deterioration in my overall health, I decided to take action on several levels and begin numerous interventions, most notably the Cognitive Control Training (CCT) task. This task is an adaptive variation of PASAT, where on each turn the player must add a stated number to the previously stated number Illustration of the PASAT task with a 1.8s interval . In CCT, this interval is adapted to the player. The objective was clear: to methodologically document my neuro-emotional starting point and use the…

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