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Interview to Markus Gabriel
Interview to Markus Gabriel Markus Gabriel, born in 1980, studied in Bonn, Heidelberg, Lisbon, and New York. He is one of the most prominent representatives of the New Realism in philosophy, which is part of his project for a new illustration. At the age of 29, he...
Is understanding the Brain in Context the key to resolving the Mind/Brain Problem? Reflections from Santander
By Iciar Iturmendi Sabater For a week in late July, about fifty neuroscientists, clinicians, biologists, biochemists, physicists, biotechnologists, psychologists, and philosophers gathered in the Magdalena Palace in Santander. A course organized by CINET...
Interview to Jorge Sepulcre
Jorge Sepulcre is faculty member and laboratory director at the Gordon Center for Medical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, and an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. After completing MD and PhD degrees in his native Spain at the University of...
Interdisciplinarity and international diversity for the study of the brain and mind: Beyond borders and scopes
Karen Herrera-Ferrá The current complex world events have accentuated the importance of different ways of perceiving, understanding, assessing, making decisions, and behaving in the face of and coping with extreme and stressful life events such as the pandemic and the...
The physiological and functional assets of the brain
Alfredo Esteve It can be stated that the main function of the nervous system is to regulate the relationship of an organism with its environment, managing the information it receives from the outside in light of what it obtains from itself, from its internal state,...
Neurorights in Chile: Where do we come from and where are we going?
Neurorights in Chile: Where do we come from and where are we going?María Isabel Cornejo Plaza In 2020, a bill was presented in Chile to reform Article 1 of the Political Constitution of the Republic by including a clear recognition of the neurorights proposals by...
Interview to Marya Schechtman
Marya Schechtman is Professor of Philosophy and a member of the Laboratory of Integrative Neuroscience at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She received her PhD in philosophy from Harvard in 1988. Her main areas of interest are personal identity, philosophy of...
Interview to Carmen Cavada
Carmen Cavada is a Professor of Human Anatomy and Neuroscience at the Faculty of Medicine of the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). She studied medicine and surgery at the University of Bilbao, did her doctorate at the UAM, and was a postdoctoral researcher at the...
Interview to Javier Bernácer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geI4h4GRANI Javier Bernácer is a researcher with extensive training and experience in neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology. He holds degrees in biology (2001) and biochemistry (2003), a master’s degree in neuroscience (2004) and a...