Six interviews about the brain

Joseph Ledoux: “Emotion is more powerful than reason”

He is 49 years old and in 1977 he worked at Cornell University Medical College. Since 1989 he has been a professor at the Center for Neurological Sciences at New York University and a member of the Society for Neuroscience. […]

Fisher: “A lover’s high is produced by substances made by his brain.”

Helen Fisher has studied 58 cultures from around the world and published among other books “Anatomy of love: natural history of monogamy, adultery and divorce” and “Why we love: nature and chemistry of romantic love”. […]

Pinker: “A newborn is not a blank page”

54-year-old Steven Pinker may look like a rock star, but he’s actually a language explorer. Between the phrases and the syntax, Pinker searches for clues – what he calls “rabbit holes”? that take you to the depths of our brain. For more than a quarter of a century he has researched at centers such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). […]

Ferran Salmurri: “Happiness can be learned”

Is it possible a “scientific” improvement of our feelings, of our affective quality of life? Reading Emotional Freedom, the book by psychologist Ferran Salmurri, published by Paidós, suggests that it is. The goal could not be more ambitious: to be happy. […]

Tsien: “We will save our memories to a hard drive”

The director of the Center for Neurobiology at Boston University has scrutinized the brains of mice to find out how experiences register in the mind. Their conclusions help to understand the springs of intelligence. […]

Marder: “The brain does not stop rebuilding itself”

The Holy Grail of neuroscience could be found in a circuit of 30 neurons located in the stomach of a crustacean. Biologist Eve Marder explains to us how it is possible that this mini-brain provides invaluable information about the functioning of our brains. […]