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At this point in time, science has continued to advance the methods for not just observation, but also for interpretation. If you’re interested in a connectome of your brain, ask yourself WHY you are interested in it, first. Once you have determined what the interest is, you can determine how to get one, and if you’re an interesting candidate, you may be able to have it done for no monetary charge (the charge comes in the form of becoming an experiment, and if you can handle the demands of the scientists, who you have consented to poke and prod you, in order to make new discoveries or add to their datasets).What are you trying to accomplish with this, if I may be so bold? My experiences with the path you’re considering walking down are fairly vast, so humor me while I tell you my history in this area: this is the first time I have publically shared this, thanks in large part to a commentator in another question here on Quora. Apologies if it seems off-topic in some parts, but that’s just how I communicate. If you need clarification on any points or would like to know more, feel free to comment below and I’ll do my very best to elaborate as needed/desired.When I was 26, I had my brain studied, due to some abnormalities in my WAIS testing, confirmed by a Stanford-Binet run-through when I was 8 years younger. This additional test, administered by Vocational Rehabilitation of Indiana, , was precipitated by odd performances on tests and in classwork, projects, etc; I’d have a 3.9–4.0 in a 500 or 600 level, graduate course, but a C- in a 100 level course, in the same area, and my mathematical struggles were inconsistent; I was accused of cheating on a thermodynamics exam, simply because I didn’t show much work at all, but in 3rd-year calculus, I struggled to understand many concepts and had to spend an inordinate amount of time Linear algebra? Reasonably simple. Differential equations? Far more difficult. Advanced spatial geometry? Easy, almost to the point of effortlessness. Chemistry? Struggles in some areas, and in other areas, surpassing the abilities of the professor… There didn’t seem to be any reasoning (so important, right?) as to why the areas of performance and deficit seemed too similar, and yet, the subtle differences were wreaking havoc on my psyche in some areas. Add to this a cauda equina injury, making attending my classes quite difficult at times, and you had a recipe for problems.My working memory seemed to suffer a defect - given a sequence of numbers, and asked to repeat them backward, without SEEING the numbers, I would score very low, and even after seeing them for a few seconds, I still struggled. I even struggled to repeat them in normal order, without missing a number or 3 in a series of 8–10, but it didn’t matter, because my spatial reasoning and fluid reasoning boosted my score so dramatically on the Stanford-Binet testing, it not only erased the weakness but couldn’t even be properly weighted to bring it to a normative value.Puzzled, the clinician sent the results to the Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience, with my blessing. I was a student at Purdue, triple majoring in physics, electronic computer engineering, and operational leadership, at the time, but was suddenly struggling with mathematics in some areas, and no amount of studying or tutoring was solving it. Hence, the psychiatrist ordered the WAIS, in light of my earlier results on the S-B, and was puzzled by the WAIS irregularities even more than the original oddities in the S-B at age 16 (nearly 17).I underwent a barrage of brain scans, from standard T1 weighted MRIsm and multiple EEG sessions to fMRI and PET. The findings were interesting, for sure, and my major(s) changed to psychology and statistics, with minors in OLS and sociology. My interest in social psychology continued to grow, and as I continued to push (neigh, hurl) new hypotheses at my best professors, they would at first be bewildered, but after lengthy discussions, they saw something they hadn’t their entire professional lives. I was delighted in speaking with post-grads about various topics, and to their surprise, I was not only able to keep up at the highest levels but also discern the fundamentals of very intricate systems, having never learned them directly but just by having knowledge from closely neighboring disciplines and sciences.Unfortunately for me, my physical health deteriorated, ending my time at University. I later returned, overmedicated, and trodded through; with special permission, I was able to enter my graduate work without some of the “chains” others are bonded by. This went by in under 16 months, completing my master’s theory, but with the continuing issues with my cauda equina injury, I didn’t have the opportunity to complete a dissertation for my Ph.D.My brain is, objectively, unique when compared with the general population. There are nuances everywhere, and some of them surprised a lot of the researchers. I am sure there are at least a few articles, in various journals or textbooks, with an image or description of my brain, somewhere, on the wide world of the internet and academic depositories. Though I did not wish to participate in a named or anonymous, individual study, the results of their testing were made available for reference, as an anomaly.I exhibited some of the same patterns that people with schizoaffective disorder, yet most of the criteria to diagnose it were not present. There were also anomalies in the typical presentations of the condition versus my own scans and testing; the areas of neuronal activity were high in areas that they are almost always low in schizoaffective disorder, particularly grey matter density, corpus callosum density and activity, and grey matter activity. In their findings, they noted that my total neuronal activity was higher at all times, and would rise more quickly and more sharply when given a visual stimulus, in particular activity in the right medial thalamus, as opposed to an auditory signal, in which case, my left thalamus activity was decreased, via an amplified dopamine response. My right medial thalamus was found to have a low amount of D2 receptors, and my frontal cortex was noted to have increased density, but with a slight reduction in size compared to baseline, which resulted in higher activity levels, but imbalance between the ventral, medial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) and the orbital frontal cortex (OFC). This gives me a low executive functioning response, but the desire to plan, and create a scenario, but with low or no desire to act on them.They concluded that perhaps specific brain structures, on those who score very highly on IQ tests through the sheer fact that they are “off the charts” in some areas, but weaker in others, may appear similar to the schizoaffective brain, but without the external clinical symptoms usually associated with the said disorder, tampered exclusively by the thalamic response to exclude information, in a pre-sorting manner. This drives the creative process, but in schizoaffective disorder, it’s not managed properly and results in delusions, hallucinations, paranoia, etc. I exhibited no signs of this, but I definitely would conjure up strange ideas, that on their face, sounded almost delusional. Upon closer inspection, they were anything but.This was in 2008, and since then, we’ve learned a lot more about the brain… and to everyone’s surprise (except mine, but also including mine - that will make sense at my conclusion), my own breakdown of my brain functions and my neuronal oddities, my receptor sensitivity and density (or lack thereof in some regions) play a very specific role in creating an intellectual who isn’t driven by tiny details, but rather, takes the broad concepts, narrows them down, and throws out irrelevant data, giving way to creativity; true creativity in ideas, not in concept. I then take those ideas and filter them through (in my mind) a matrix that snags information I know, from learning previous information, is incorrect and doesn’t even consider the implications of those parts, because they’ve already been invalidated. This convergent and divergent, combined thought process, is exceedingly rare. It can back in and out, at will, without letting myself “rabbit hole.” When I use cannabis, I do go down said hole, and sometimes, I find nonsense, while other times, I am discovering things that most people wouldn’t think of, only to check if that’s the case and discover a very recent journal article detailing a possible link between a few of my variables. I keep checking, to ensure it’s a truly original thought, and throw out anything that is observed or proven fallacious, without a moment of disdain, regret, etc for having been wrong in the first place; I wasn’t wrong, I was just looking down the wrong perspective, and I kindly adjust to continue to exercise.This means for someone like me to thrive, I need to be able to sponge up as much information as possible, from as many perspectives and disciplines as I can, to be able to formulate new concepts of how each interlink functions. My scribbled notes on their findings, and a 7-month long delve into these variated fields of study, ended up being vindicated later on, and it was the first moment where I realized the truth of what I knew to be true, deep down, but had never had anyone else acknowledge, beyond the oddities; “Wow, I don’t think wrong, I just think very differently, and very deeply.” This saying is appropriate: “Genius hits the target that talent cannot even see.”You must decide what you wish to do undertake this for, and if it will serve you any real purpose. What’s motivating you to think about this in the first place? Answer those questions, and one can begin to better answer your primary question, “What will it mean/tell me about myself.” That’s a very front-heavy question, so some refining might help us see your goal better, and extrapolate. Aside: What is the “current situation” in reference to?Thanks!