Catherine Vidal

The senators are currently examining the bioethics bill, a text voted in first reading by the National Assembly in October 2019. This bill brings new elements in the framework of research in several innovative areas of biomedicine, including the neurotechnology which is booming.

Violence, aggressiveness, attacks on moral order, crime, terrorism... Could all these deviant behaviours have their origin in the brain? To find out, would the method of choice be MRI imaging, which now makes it possible to see the brain at work without having to open the skull? Certainly neuroscience is bringing

In the 19th century, Cesare Lombroso founded scientific criminology. He claimed to identify criminals by the anatomical features of the face and skull. Science came to the rescue of justice... Where are we in the 21st century? The same quest still drives some biologists, particularly in the United States...