How to unravel the mysteries of the brain?

"The Great Brain Atlas" cover. © Glénat Éditions

By: Caroline Lachowsky

Let's explore the most complex and fascinating organ that we all have in mind, and that makes us what we are: our brain. True conductor of the human body.

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How, in the light of the most recent discoveries in neuroscience and new imaging techniques, can we unravel a little of the mystery of its organization and how it works? Dive into the very heart of our brain with a freeze-frame of its formidable networks of neurons and synapses in The Great Brain Atlas just published by Glénat editions, with the most eminent researchers of the ICM, the Brain Institute and the spinal cord under the guidance of neurologist Richard Frackowiak, pioneer of brain imaging, and neurobiologist Bassem Hassan.

(Replay of January 23, 2019)

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