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A series of articles have been circulating on the Internet in the last few weeks, raising important and critical questions about Neurosciences, and whether they actually bring anything new to social sciences in practical terms.  In a recent article in the New York Times  by Alissa Quart entitled Neuroscience Under Attack, the author seems to […]

You might already know that our nervous system extends to our gut – it’s called the enteric nervous system and it’s been popularized by many articles and books, such as The Second Brain. But there is something else there worth noticing there: bacteria. We have between 1013 and 1014 microorganisms in our gastrointestinal system – […]

Here is a title I stumbled upon last week in my local newspaper : Brain drain starts at age 45 – not age 60. Given that I turned 48 last September, I froze and immediately started to panic (at a pace that I used to think was “quick as a flash” when I was still […]

Prediction is difficult, especially about the future” – Niels Bohr (1885-1962) – Nobel Prize for Physics 1922 How reliable are the predictions of pundits? How reliable is history as a means for making forecasts about the future? In the latest edition of “Time” magazine, Glenn Beck has chosen Mohamed Bouazizi, as his “Person of the […]

As you probably know, our brain is made of two hemispheres that are different at a macro and functional level. A popular misconception about brain asymmetry is illustrated in the figure on the right, which we found on the web (this is one example among many others). According to this view, linear reasoning and language […]