ABOUT BRAIN STORM
Brain Storm Studios was founded to build a programmable experimental platform for studying relationships among sensory events, movement, timing, perception, and action.
The company began with lived experience and curiosity.
Its scientific claims must be earned through evidence.
WHY BRAIN STORM EXISTS
After being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disorder, founder Mike Mooney became increasingly interested in observations and questions that did not fit neatly inside one discipline.
Those questions led to experiments.
The experiments began becoming a platform.
Lived experience generated questions and urgency.
It is not scientific proof of Brain Storm’s hypotheses.
FOUNDED BY MIKE AND ELLIE MOONEY
Brain Storm Studios was founded by Mike and Ellie Mooney to turn those questions into something testable.
Mike’s role is to build and steward the vision, questions, platform direction, partnerships, and experimental agenda.
Ellie is a co-founder and an important part of the company’s development, communication, and growth.
The company is intentionally being built with scientists, clinicians, engineers, human-factors experts, computational researchers, haptics specialists, and others who can challenge the work.
The founder does not need to be the authority on every discipline.
The platform needs to be able to learn from people who are.
OUR EPISTEMIC STANCE
Observe → Represent → Predict → Perturb → Measure → Compare → Revise
Observe
Represent
Predict
Perturb
Measure
Compare
Revise
Brain Storm does not treat a compelling model as proof.
A model should make itself vulnerable to evidence.
If observations disagree with the model, the model should change.
ONE PLATFORM. MANY PERSPECTIVES.
Different measurements, modalities, models, and disciplines may describe different local views of a larger relational structure.
Brain Storm’s approach is to preserve those differences rather than force them prematurely into one explanation.
The goal is to create experimental infrastructure in which multiple perspectives can be expressed, compared, challenged, and revised.
Different models. One testable environment.
MEASUREMENTS
A local view
MODALITIES
A local view
MODELS
A local view
DISCIPLINES
A local view
WHAT WE ARE BUILDING
Brain Storm is building reusable experimental infrastructure rather than one fixed sensory intervention.
The public architecture remains:
Protocol → Pattern Engine → Coordinate System → Output Adapters → Measurement & Logging
Protocol
Pattern Engine
Coordinate System
Output Adapters
Measurement & Logging
Visual · Audio · Tactile · +
Visual, audio, tactile, and future modalities remain independently programmable.
Apple Vision Pro is the current spatial-computing environment used to develop and test portions of the platform.
Current development is focused on a single-user experimental platform.
WHY PARKINSON’S DISORDER FIRST
Parkinson’s disorder is Brain Storm’s focused initial application because it presents meaningful questions involving movement, sensory processing, timing, attention, and coordination across systems.
That focus provides a demanding environment in which to build, test, measure, and revise the platform.
Parkinson’s disorder gives Brain Storm focus.
It does not define the limits of the architecture.
FOUNDER-LED · EXPERIMENT-DRIVEN
THE FAMILY CONTEXT
Brain Storm did not begin in a laboratory or inside an established technology company.
It developed alongside family life, Parkinson’s disorder, work, questions, experiments, uncertainty, and the decision to keep testing.
The family context is part of the story.
It is not scientific evidence.
WHAT WE VALUE
Testability
Scientific humility
Constructive skepticism
Independent expertise
Clear evidence boundaries
Reproducibility
Interoperability
Open collaboration
Protected enabling infrastructure
Respect for uncertainty
Build boldly. Claim carefully.
WHAT BRAIN STORM IS NOT
Not a claim that one theory explains human coordination.
Not a claim that synchrony is always desirable.
Not a claim of therapeutic efficacy.
Not a claim that Apple Vision Pro is the permanent platform.
Not a claim that the founder replaces domain experts.
Not a closed system requiring every collaborator to use the same model.
Brain Storm is a platform for making more questions testable.
WHERE THIS COULD GO
Brain Storm’s near-term work is focused on developing and testing the platform carefully.
If the architecture proves useful, the same underlying system may support research across additional clinical, rehabilitation, human-performance, training, and experimental settings.
Expansion should follow evidence—not enthusiasm alone.
We are building the infrastructure to make more of them testable.
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