Pain, music, sleep and learning disorders: the brain studied from all angles in Nîmes

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La semaine du cerveau revient pour la deuxième année consécutive à l'université de Nîmes avec, du 12 au 22 mars, des conférences et animations. Les inscriptions sont ouvertes. 

After the success of the first edition in which more than 1,500 people participated, Unîmes is offering four new meetings around the themes of pain, music, sleep disorders and learning illustrating the richness of learning. rsquo;news of neuroscience research. Organized by a scientific committee of teacher-researchers from Unîmes, this event offers a week of events and conferences for the general public.

Brain and predictions; sleep disorders and ADHD

From March 12 to 22, the general public will be able to meet research stakeholders to learn more about the brain and find out about current events in this field. At the opening, the establishment wishes to promote three winning projects from Gard Brain Week Ambassadors. These projects, which aim to awaken curiosity and transmit the scientific approach linked to artistic or literary practices, will be presented by students from Gard schools. This work was carried out as part of a collaboration between Cardie (academic research, development, innovation and experimentation unit) and Laurie Galvan, lecturer in neuroscience at the University of Nîmes and responsible of the scientific committee of Brain Week in Nîmes.

Free conferences upon registration

Tuesday March 12, at 6:30 p.m.: "It hurts when I move! The brain-computer interface for the relief of lumbar pain, by Fabricio Pereira, lecturer at the University of Nîmes and Arnaud Dupeyron, university professor, hospital practitioner at the service of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Nîmes University Hospital.

Wednesday March 13, at 6 p.m.: "Music, brain and predictions" by Daniele Schön, CNRS research director at the Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Aix-Marseille University.

Thursday March 14, at 6:30 p.m.: "Sleep disorders and ADHD, the chicken or the egg?", by Professor Régis Lopez, somnologist and psychiatrist at Montpellier University Hospital.

Friday March 22, at 6 p.m.: "How our brain learns to tinker to acquire cultural tools (reading, math, science) ?", by Grégoire Borst, professor of developmental psychology and neuroscience cognitive sciences of education (Paris Cité University) and director of the psychology of development and child education laboratory. 

Conference registrations via this link. 

Why a week around the brain ?

Organized every year in March since 1999, Brain Week is coordinated in France by the Société neuroscience. This international event, imagined by the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives and the European Dana Alliance for the Brain, is organized simultaneously in around a hundred countries and more than 120 cities in France. Its aim is to raise awareness among the general public à the importance of brain research. This is an opportunity for many researchers to meet the public and share with them the advances obtained in neuroscience research laboratories, and to present them. the challenges for knowledge of the brain and the implications for our society.