INTERVIEW – Emotions, personality, decision-making… everything today seems to find an explanation in our brain. This is what Albert Moukheiber, doctor of neuroscience, denounces in his book Neuromania, the truth from the false about your brain.
According to what we read on the Internet, some of us are more “left-brained”, others “right-brained”. We could also do a “dopamine detox” to wean the organ from the addictive stimulation of social networks, or learn to control our “reptilian brain” to stop depending on our primary impulses. All these concepts are simplifications which in no way reflect the real complexity of our brain functions, insists Albert Moukheiber, doctor in neuroscience and clinical psychologist. In his book Neuromania, the true from the false about your brain (1), he denounces the tendency to too often invoke neuroscience in order to give a scientific “varnish” to what is not science. All at the cost of approximations, shortcuts, even untruths. An omnipresence of reductive discourse which is not without consequences, he warns. Interview.
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