Total Brain

MyBrainSolutions

About this app

Total Brain helps you understand and train all your brain capacities to improve your mental health and wellness.

Founded on the principle that our mental health can be measured, improved and managed like our physical health, Total Brain measures the 12 brain capacities that define your mental health and screens for the risk of common mental conditions. Then, based on that assessment, Total Brain provides you with specific mental fitness programs designed to strengthen your brain capacities and improve your mental health.

Scientific, Simple and Convenient to Use:

Measure Monthly - Take our easy to use, 20 minute, confidential, clinically validated assessment.
Understand Totally - Get results showing 12 brain capacities that identify strengths/weaknesses and potential health risks.
Train Specifically – Start a custom mental fitness program with digital brain exercises, breathing and meditation for just 15 minutes a day, then reassess and track progress.

Benefits:

Self-Awareness – Learn about your strengths, weaknesses and risk of mental conditions
Effectiveness Monitoring – Monitor the impact of mental fitness programs and treatment
Confidentially Screen – Screen for risk of common mental conditions and receive immediate, in-app referrals to third party health services
Improved Performance1 – Measurable improvement across each of the 12 brain capacities, yielding an improvement in overall mental health

[1] Improvements in brain performance correlated with average of three hours of training. 2017 internal book of business data; N = 3,275; Users who assessed + trained at least twice

Ratings and reviews

This is a pretty good app that is continuously improving. There are still some bugs that need worked out, and I wish there was a system for reporting these. For example, the self-regulate exercise doesn't allow me to adjust the 1-10 scales. Also, the positive affirmations exercise never seems to complete, and I can never get progress points for it.

Only a single exercise works. All the others fail after briefly showing the loading "brain" symbol. Just goes to a white screen. Probably wasn't in their best interest to have my company's insurance reward using the app when the app is so horribly broken. Otherwise I'd have just uninstalled it and moved on. Now I feel obligated to use it and get a daily reminder of how terrible it is. Edit: Credit where it's due: they seem to have gotten most of the app working now. I'm a little skeptical of the actual benefits, and it's rough around the edges (like a lot of the text being unreadably small on my phone) but it is amusing and the breathing exercises have audible cues so I can use it while driving.

Not intuitive and so much is subjective. You're scored on your ability to determine someone's body language...how is a woman sitting down, leaning back taking an aggressive stance? Or the difference between someone being indifferent to a lack of concern (or something along those lines...synonyms). Some of the activities have barely any instructions. There's no timer for some to let you know how much longer it will last. The things to click aren't obvious on the main path.

What's new

In this release, we fixed various minor bugs. With that, we offer the following reflection:
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” — Rabindranath Tagore