Neuroscience All books

Alain Bentolila

We Are Not Bonobos: I Talk, Therefore I Am

The conquest of language and writing against the chaos of the world and all its forms of manipulation

Mathias Pessiglione

The Brain Has Its Reasons Which Reason Doesn’t Know

Momo Sapiens, or the brain caught in flagrante delicto of irrationality

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

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.

Alain Berthoz

Creative Inhibition To act is also to inhibit

A neglected concept, inhibition holds the key to our individual and social behaviors. A broad bio-sociological panorama for observing human behavior with fresh eyes.

Laurent Cohen

The Brain in Bits and Pieces

Twenty stories, twenty enigmas, twenty clues to what it is to be human. A precise and complete panorama of the recent advances in the neurosciences.

Mani Saignavongs, Benjamin Baret

Extraordinary Stories (about Brains)

A dozen short stories, which can be read individually, depending on the reader’s inclination, each one illuminating an episode in the life of our brain: how it remembers, how it is afraid, how it sees, how it recognizes, how it speaks…

Yves Agid

I Enjoy Getting Older The Brain – Master of Time

• Clear and enlightening explanations for the aging of the brain, the primary agent of overall aging.

Stanislas Dehaene

Science Helping Schools

Presented in a concise and clear way, the most important discoveries concerning the brains of the youngest students.

Génération Snooze

Snooze

Written by two practitioners of Artificial Intelligence, this book is both very accessible and very concrete.

Yann Le Cun

When Machines Learn The Revolution of Artificial Neurons and Deep Learning

A fascinating, lucid, and accessible book that takes us into the heart of machines and allows us to discover a new, enthralling world – one that is already our own.

Xavier Seron

The Lie

Based on the latest advances in research, notably in Anglophone countries. An approach that leans heavily on the neurosciences and looks at the cerebral foundation of lying.

Steven Laureys

Meditation and Brain

A study of the brain of one of the greatest meditators by one of the most brilliant neurologists today.

Alain Berthoz, Carlo Ossola

The Freedoms of the Improbable

A dozen high-level international researchers for a multidisciplinary approach to the improbable, a powerful factor of creativity in between the possible and the impossible.

Bernard Poulain, Etienne Hirsch

Frontiers in the Neurosciences

Along with Étienne Hirsch and Bernard Poulain, thirty prestigious contributors present an assessment of what the neurosciences will be in twenty years.

Bernard Lechevalier

The Pleasure of Music

From Beethoven to Brassens, including Debussy and Duke Ellington, an exploration of musical pleasure, all genres combined, starting with the emotions that it creates in us, and the meaning that it conveys.

Jean-Marie Bourre

A Program to Feed Your Brain Well

A clear and instructive approach that enables the reader to understand what is needed to be at the height of one’s intellectual abilities.

Olivier Houdé

Human Intelligence is Not an Algorithm

An original theory that proposes a new model of intelligence centered on intuition, logic, but also inhibition, indispensable for correcting our cognitive biases.

Elena Pasquinelli

How to Use Screens in Your Family A Guide for Parents 3.0

Everything you need to know on strategies to encourage a reasonable use of screens for our children and… for ourselves!

Lucy Vincent

Make Your Brain Dance

Fatigue, bad mood, stress, eating disorder, sleep problems… : a scientifically-based explanation of the effects of dance to improve your everyday life.

Anne-Lise Giraud

The Brain and Speaking Disorders Aphasia, Dyslexia, Deafness, Stuttering

Both clear and detailed, a book that provides correct answers to the questions that are asked about speech and the pathologies related to it.

Stanislas Dehaene

Learn

A clear and precise explanation of the essential mechanisms that make our brain the most efficient tool for learning that we know of today...

Isabelle Peretz

Learn Music What’s New in the Neurosciences

The fruit of more than thirty years of research on the neurobiological foundations of music in conjunction with education, which tells us everything about the way in which music acts and transforms our brain.

Alain Ehrenberg

The Mechanics of Passions: The New Contemporary Individualism

The book’s very stimulating thesis: the twenty-first century will be the century of the brain and the neurosciences, which are already playing the role that psychoanalysis played in the twentieth century.

Lionel Naccache, Karine Naccache

Do you Speak “Brain”? The brain is part of our everyday lives

Instructive and entertaining, important facts about the brain by one of the great French neurologists. A proven format, since Lionel Naccache’s chronicles on the brain were the most popular podcasted shows last summer on French Inter radio.

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.

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.

Antonio R. Damasio

The Strange Order of Things Life, Feeling, and the Making of Culture

A landmark book, situated between philosophy and neuroscience, in which Damasio deals with the challenging question of the origin of civilization.

Barbara Demeneix

Toxic Cocktails How Endocrine Disrupters Are Poisoning Our Brains

Written for the general reader, the book is startling as it reveals the scandalous damage to our brains being caused by chemical pollution. Concrete measures, scientifically proven, to put an end to the tragic mistakes that have been committed in Western countries for over fifty years.

James Teboul, Philippe Damier

NeuroLeadership Challenges to the brain in the face of decision and change

An analysis of the brain with a focus on corporate action aimed at helping executives and managers to make better decisions, to remain calm under pressure, to work better with others and to acquire the necessary flexibility

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.

Pierre-Marie Lledo

The Brain In The 21st Century

Beyond neurobiology, an analysis of the impact of these discoveries not only on the sciences of education, psychology, medicine, but also on theology, marketing, economics ... An essential ethical reflection on the use we must make of this knowledge so as not to distort the foundations of our humanity and also our freedom.