Le cerveau révèle petit à petit les mystères de son fonctionnement. Outre l’étude des neurones, les chercheurs et chercheuses s’intéressent de plus en plus au rôle d’autres types de cellules du système nerveux qui aident les neurones dans leurs tâches quotidiennes. Une étude conduite par des scientifiques de l’Inserm, du
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Au XIXe siècle, on mesurait les crânes et les cerveaux pour justifier la hiérarchie entre les sexes, les races et classes sociales. Le XXe siècle découvre et admet comme critères modernes les tests cognitifs, l’imagerie cérébrale et les gènes. Que sera le XXIe siècle, depuis la découverte de la plasticité
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Une brève introduction à la conscience – Réflexion sur le soi, le libre arbitre et l’expérience du monde, d’Annaka Harris – Editions Quanto, mars 2021 Qu’est-ce que la conscience ? Comment apparaît-elle ? Pourquoi existe-t-elle ? Est-elle une illusion ou, au contraire, une propriété de la matière ? L’existence même
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On a longtemps considéré les émotions comme des expériences biologiques innées et universelles, bien distinctes les unes des autres. Mais sont-elles vraiment innées ou bien sont-elles le produit de notre culture et de notre environnement ? Cette question fait depuis longtemps l’objet de débats dans le domaine des neurosciences. Des
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La Chaire Good In Tech organise à sa deuxième conférence (en ligne) le 18 novembre 2020, de 18h à 20h30, « Futurs Pluriels » consacrée à la Med & Tech, où chercheurs, acteurs, penseurs et artistes seront invités à explorer une facette de nos futurs sous différents angles : approches du futur
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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.
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Genopole, Télécom SudParis et l’Université d’Évry accueillent une nouvelle équipe scientifique pour explorer la complexité du cerveau. L’équipe s’est installée à Évry grâce au dispositif d’aide à la recherche de Genopole, au soutien de l’Université d’Évry et aux équipements dédiés à l’innovation du centre ETOILE, récemment ouvert sur le
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Should we be afraid of memory implants? A recent study echoed by UP' reports possible cyber attacks on our memory. Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, a researcher in artificial intelligence, provides a forum that puts the legitimate fears we may have in their rightful place. Remote appropriation
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The brain is a constantly evolving organ and its functioning raises many questions. For example, scientists are working to discover how memories are created in the brain so that they can be targeted, restored and enriched with implants, and the necessary technologies already exist under
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Did you say "nano"? It's often difficult to imagine a grain of matter at the nanoscale: a billionth of a metre. To get an idea of this, let's point out that the size ratio between planet Earth and an orange is similar to that between an orange
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The problem with the spinal cord is that you only have one and if you have a lesion, doctors can't repair it; they can only try to reduce the damage. The consequences for the injured are serious and usually make them severely and severely disabled.
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Stéphanie Brillant's new documentary film, "Children's Brains, Infinite Potential" is a dive into neuroscience and explains how our experiences in childhood shape our brains. The film gives the essential keys to help develop it properly. How to help children better manage their
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The biological is back: in multiple forms (genes, hormones, neurons) it is everywhere as an explanatory variable of our behaviours but also as a manipulable mechanism for social transformation. This biologization of the world and of the social world affirms a dynamic of progress and mobilizes a discourse
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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
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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...
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How to treat neuropathic pain, a chronic disease that affects 7 to 10 % of the French population and for which no treatment is effective? The solution would come from researchers at the Institute of Neurosciences of Montpellier (Inserm/University of Montpellier) and the Laboratory of Therapeutic Innovation (CNRS/University of Strasbourg) (1) who have put together a study on the subject.
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En réunissant dans un même bâtiment des chercheurs en neurosciences, une trentaine de plateformes technologiques, un Living Lab et un incubateur de startup, l’Institut du cerveau et de la moelle épinière (1), labellisé Institut Carnot, est un lieu unique dédié aux maladies du système nerveux. Avec son bâtiment de
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The field of neuroscience has undergone a veritable revolution over the last thirty years thanks to the arrival of new imaging and investigation tools that have made it possible to explore brain structures in great detail and to reveal the electrical and biochemical functioning of the various brain cells.
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The right to cognitive freedom, the right to mental privacy, the right to mental integrity and the right to psychological continuity are the four new laws proposed by researchers to protect themselves from a future that will be dominated by neuroscience. New rights of
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In honor of Brain Week, which is being held throughout France, I propose that you take the time to ask yourself the question of the interest of neuroscience for management. Throughout life, we are aware that we have a heart, lungs... which we know
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