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"If I did not exist, nothing would exist, because there would be nothing to which oppose oneself", writes Fernando Pessoa in the devil's name. Is this the invention of a poet? Nothing is less sure. The scientist confirms the notion that life is born from the confrontation between molecules. J.D. Vincent invites us here to explore with him all the aspects, the ramifications, from animal life to the human brain, which are nurtured by this principle of opposition. The devil is constantly at work in the heart of the living, and neurobiologist Jean-Didier Vincent demonstrates this evidence with humor in his book, a continuation of the spirit present in his Biology of Passions.

Stanislas Dehaene

Conquering the Brain

This book brings together exceptionally beautiful images (close to 100 [voir ci-dessus]), all full color, and the most current knowledge of the brain from research throughout the world.

Enchanted Neurons (The) - The Brain and the Music

Pierre Boulez, Jean-Pierre Changeux, Philippe Manoury

The Enchanted Neurons The Brain and the Music

A unique event: two major intellectuals of our time discuss the links between the neurosciences and music

Laurent Cohen

Why Chimps Can't Talk and Thirty Other Questions Regarding the Human Brain

Sleep, Consciousness and Wakefulness (The)

Michel Jouvet

The Sleep, Consciousness and Wakefulness

A major scientific work that offers a sweeping panorama of the state of consciousness, from Hippocrates to the latest findings in neurology.

Bruno Millet-Ilharreguy

Disorders of the Emotional Brain Understanding, Preventing, Healing

Emotion at the heart of psychiatric disease and its treatment.

John R. Searle

The Mystery of Consciousness

Benefits of Music for the Brains of Children and Adults (The)

Pierre Lemarquis

The Benefits of Music for the Brains of Children and Adults

Music shapes and caresses our brain, it contributes to the development of individuals, to learning, to care, at every age in life.

Jacques Hochmann, Marc Jeannerod

Is there anybody there ? Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience

For the first time, a psychoanalyst and a neurophysiologist have put their expertise together in order to progress in knowledge. The focus is rather on their ability to listen to each other, and their avoidance of concessions, than on individualistic, polemic arguments. Thus, important bridges are built between the two disciplines, which perhaps heralds the advent of another psychology. Jacques Hochmann is a professor of psychiatrics and a psychoanalyst. Marc Jeannerod is a professor of physiology and a neurophysiologist.

Glial Man (The) - A Break in Neuroscientific Thinking

Yves Agid, Pierre Magistretti

The Glial Man A Break in Neuroscientific Thinking

A strong thesis with three-fold implications: a new way of understanding the functioning of the human brain; new bases to better diagnose neuro-psychiatric pathologies; new paths for research into treatments against these diseases.

Stanislas Dehaene

A Good Head for Maths

Did you know that babies can count? And did you know that some animals can do simple arithmetic? Whether we possess astounding mathematical talents or the most basic of counting skills, we are all born with numerical intuition. In this book, the author describes some amazing scientific experiments that demonstrate the mental foundations of numerical intuition. If you want to know why you cant remember how much 7 x 8 makes, or how a cerebral lesion can make you forget 3 - 1, or if you want to figure out the fifth root of 759,375, just follow the author in a series of tortuous mental calculations and you dont even have to be a mathematical wizard. Stanislas Dehaene is a senior research fellow at Inserm and works at the Laboratory of cognitive sciences and of psycholinguistics at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.

Laurent Cohen

How Do You Read With Your Ears? And 40 other stories about the human brain

The new book by one of our most brilliant neurologists gives us a concise and comprehensive overview of the latest advances in neuroscience. Forty short, strange, entertaining but always instructive stories about the functioning and dysfunctioning, ordinary or extraordinary, of our brain.

Jean-Didier Vincent

The Biology of Power

How biology explains what is going on in the brains of leaders, and in those of their subjects… Told by J-D Vincent, the strange ballet of emotions that connect power, sex, and violence.

Pierre Buser

The Brain : Yours and Others

This book is both a careful review of the numerous debates that have stirred--and continue to stir--the cognitive sciences, and a personal essay. The author has tried to elaborate an original theory of psychic activity, based, on the one hand, on the cognitive conscious and the cognitive unconscious, and, on the other, on the cognitive unconscious and the affective unconscious. Pierre Buser, a former director of the Institut des neurosciences at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, is Professor Emeritus at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, and a member of the Académie des Sciences.

Lionel Naccache

Inner Cinematography and Awareness

A skillful book in which the author makes use of the most current resources of the neurosciences to understand the cerebral and psychological mechanisms that create our representation of the world and our awareness.

Sixth Sense (The) - A Neurophysiological Enquiry

André Holley

The Sixth Sense A Neurophysiological Enquiry

The outside world is not the only source of sense stimuli; other, internal types of sensibility can stimulate the brain

Jean Becchio, Bruno Suarez

What is New in Hypnosis From Hypnosis to Consciousness Activation

A subject that arouses very broad interest, approached here without the usual esoteric or spiritualist connotations, backed by the most recent advances in the neurosciences, and with very illuminating clinical cases.

Lionel Naccache

The Sign Song

An essay illuminated by neuroscience, which aims to explore the psychological and cerebral cogs involved in the act of interpretation, which we are not generally aware of. A petition or manifesto in favour of defending our subjectivity and individuality, at a time when ever more efficient, air-tight and uniform signage tends to make us lose track of the fact that we are the inventors of our own understanding of the world’s signs.

Francesco Cavalli-Sforza, Luca Cavalli-Sforza

The Science of Happiness

Alain Berthoz, Fabienne Verdier

Thought in Action A Painting Session Between Art and Science

An original discussion around the artistic process, combining philosophy and history of art, brain physiology and mathematics.

Gerald M. Edelman

Wider than the Sky

The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease and you beside, wrote the American poet Emily Dickinson in the mid-nineteenth century. The fundamental mechanisms governing mental life are now the subject of scientific study. In this book, Gerald Edelman examines a major aspect of the mind - consciousness. How can the firing of neurons give rise to subjective sensations, thoughts and emotions? How can the disparate domains of mind and body be reconciled? A scientific explanation of consciousness must take into account the causal connections between these two domains. Such a theory must show how the neural bases of consciousness appeared during the evolutionary process and how certain animals developed consciousness. These are some of the key issues that Gerald Edelman examines here. He shows that consciousness cannot be located in a specific area of the brain, because it is a process linked to how the brain functions as a whole, to its wealth of connections and to its great complexity. The brain, he argues, is not a kind of computer. Edelman is regarded as one of the greatest theoreticians of the brain, and his notion of consciousness dominates all discussions on the subject among the international scientific community. This book offers the most accessible version of his theories that is available today. The winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Medicine, Gerald Edelman heads the Institute for Neurosciences, in La Jolla, California.