Neuroscience

π Neuroscience

Neither alive nor dead: disembodied human brains put to use in medicine

With Pierre-Marie Lledo, Research Director at CNRS, Head of Department at Institut Pasteur, and Member of the European Academy of Sciences

On July 1st, 2026
4 min reading time

Bexorg is developing BrainEx, a system that maintains isolated brains to improve drug testing.

π Neuroscience π Economics

Homo Economicus on trial: what neuroeconomics reveals about rational choice

With Marie Claire Villeval , Emeritus CNRS Research Director and Director of the GATE-Lab at Université de Lyon

On April 29th, 2026
6 min reading time

Experimental studies show that a loss is psychologically felt about twice as intensely as an equivalent gain.

π Neuroscience π Science and technology

Brain implants: the true, the false and the uncertain

With Hervé Chneiweiss, Emeritus CNRS Research Director at Sorbonne University Neuroscience Centre , Clément Hébert, Research Fellow at the Grenoble Institute of Neuroscience

On February 11th, 2026
5 min reading time

Since the 2000s, the use of microelectronics has made it possible to create increasingly smaller implants.

π Neuroscience

Can neuroscience solve the mystery of consciousness?

With Laure Tabouy, Doctor of Neuroscience and PhD student in Neuroethics at Université d'Aix-Marseille

On September 16th, 2025
6 min reading time

Recent technological advances have raised hopes that physical markers of consciousness can be identified.

π Neuroscience π Society

Why pausing intuitive thinking favours complex reasoning

With Pierre-Marie Lledo, Research Director at CNRS, Head of Department at Institut Pasteur, and Member of the European Academy of Sciences

On September 9th, 2025
9 min reading time

Mental states can fluctuate between two opposing modes of thinking: System 1 (intuitive) and System 2 (thoughtful).

π Society π Neuroscience

From dish to brain, how dopamine influences our behaviour

With Giuseppe Gangarossa, Professor of Neurobiology at Université Paris Cité

On May 21st, 2025
4 min reading time

Lipids may influence our reward system.