Gillan Lab · Trinity College Dublin
Five minutes of play.
Real Brain Science.
Neureka turns short, game-like brain tasks and quick check-ins into research that helps us detect and prevent disorders of the mind — from depression to dementia. Free, ad-free, and built by scientists.
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30,000+ citizen scientists worldwide are already contributing
SUPPORTED BY:
Trinity College Dublin
Research Ireland
Health Research Board
European Research Council
Global Brain Health Institute
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HOW IT WORKS
Research that fits around your life, not the other way around.
No clinic, no appointments, no long forms. Just your phone, a few minutes, and whenever suits you.
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Download.
Free on iOS and Android. Signing up takes about a minute — you choose which science challenges to join, and you can stop any time.
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Play.
Short, game-like versions of established cognitive tests, plus quick check-ins on mood, sleep and habits. Most sessions take under five minutes.
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Contribute.
Every session joins a growing global dataset — one that reveals early warning signs no single clinic visit or brain scan could show.
IN THE APP
Five games. Five windows into how your brain works.
Cannon Blast
Aim at moving targets while the rules change without warning, revealing how quickly you adapt when the world shifts under you.
Memory Match
The classic card-pairing game, getting steadily harder as you go. A clean measure of how much you can hold and recall.
See it in the wild
Real tasks, real people, validated science that doesn't feel like a test.
Star Racer
Connect numbered checkpoints in sequence, as fast as you can. Measures how nimbly you switch attention between rules.
Meta Mind
Spot tiny differences in dot patterns, then rate how sure you are — testing both perception and how well you know your own mind.
CogQuest
Falling cogs force split-second decisions about which button to press, showing when habit takes over from careful thinking.
CHECK-INS
Track how you actually feel, over time
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Join Multi-Mood or Pattern Wise and you'll get gentle reminders for quick check-ins about your mood, sleep and daily habits. Sliders and taps — seconds, not surveys.
✔️ Pairing everyday moments with your game scores shows how mood and routine connect to long-term brain health.
✔️ Some challenges give you simple summaries back — like your own mood over time.
✔️ You decide how often you take part, and for how long.
30,000+
Citizen scientists contributing worldwide
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Languages - available in English & Spanish
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University lab behind it: Trinity College Dublin
YOUR DATA
What we see - and what we never do
You're trusting us with information about your mind. Here's exactly how that works, in plain language.
Encrypted and pseudonymised
Your responses are encrypted, stripped of identifying details, and only ever analysed alongside thousands of others.
We never read your content
Not your messages, not your photos, not what you do on your phone. With permission we see only high-level patterns — rough activity levels, phone-use regularity, approximate sleep and wake times.
You stay in control
Choose which challenges to join, which permissions to grant, and stop whenever you like. Neureka is research, not a clinical service — it doesn't diagnose or treat.
OUR MISSION
Finding the signal years before the symptoms
Many brain disorders develop slowly and quietly, long before anything is obvious enough to reach a clinic. By gathering brief snapshots of memory, mood and behaviour from thousands of people living ordinary lives, Neureka helps researchers spot early warning signs and modifiable risk factors that one-off appointments miss.
✔️ Led by Claire Gillan and the Gillan Lab at Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience.
✔️ Findings are published openly — and shared back with the people who made them possible.
FAQ
Questions, answered
CONTACT
Get in touch
Questions about taking part, your data, or collaborating with the lab? We read everything.
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PHONE
+353 (0)1 896 8506
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ADDRESS
The Gillan Lab
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland