Expertise
Fields & topics covered
From neuroscience to cosmology: an overview of the themes I have covered over the years for the written press.
Sciences
- Consciousness and free will
- Brain imaging and Cartesian dualism
- Altered states of consciousness
- Near-death experiences (NDEs)
- Creativity
- Brain plasticity
- Stereotypes and prejudice
- The neurobiological basis of motivation
- Hemispatial neglect, or when half the world ceases to exist
- Dyslexia
- Ethological and evolutionary psychopathology
- Intelligence and executive functions
- How the brain is built
- Schizophrenia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Sleep and learning
- Dreaming
- The Black Book of Psychoanalysis
- Alzheimer's and brain cholesterol
- Social phobias
- False memories
- The bimnesic model of emotions
- Epilepsy
- Multiple sclerosis
- Alcohol and drugs: a neurobiological approach
- Visual recognition of objects and faces
- Hallucinations
- Memory and identity: Martin Conway's model
- Prisons: the psychopathology of the situated individual
- Aggression: a neurobiological approach
- Locked-in syndrome
- CLARITY, the "transparent brain"
- Repairing spinal cord injuries: the state of research
- The psychology of the sick child
- Anxious children
- Mirror neurons
- Consciousness in equations
- Producing human cortical neurons from skin fibroblasts
- Oxytocin, the altruism hormone
- Is the internet making us stupid?
- The social sharing of emotions
- Mobile phone addiction
- Internet addiction
- Sport and alcohol: the same addiction?
- Eating disorders
- Obedience to authority: Milgram revisited
- The sex ratio in autism: the genetic explanation
- The disillusions of psychoanalysis
- The Bonnie and Clyde syndrome
- Impostor syndrome
- Sexual desire and the brain
- Cognitive maps and the brain's GPS
- Hikikomori
- Conspiracy theories
- Astrophysics: the enigma of time zero
- What is time?
- The anthropic principle: why are we here?
- String theory
- Quantum mechanics
- Astrobiology, exoplanets and biosignatures
- The laws of physics: a reflection of reality or of our mental structuring?
- Chaos theory
- Gravitational lensing
- Cosmology: an interview with Hubert Reeves
- Cosmology: a flat universe in accelerating expansion
- Bioethics: an interview with Professor Jean Bernard
- The ethics of death: withdrawing treatment in severely brain-damaged patients
- Ethics and animal experimentation
- Burnout
- An interview with Professor Christian de Duve, Nobel laureate in Medicine
- Seduction
- Benevolent sexism
- Sexual deviance
- Tinnitus
- Osteoporosis
- Diabetes
- Biogerontology
- Homosexuality: a product of prenatal influences?
- The intimate life of clownfish
- Chronobiology, jet lag and shift work
- Light therapy
- Hypnosis in anesthesiology
- Forensic entomology
- The keys to political charisma
- Nonverbal communication in political leaders
- Plans for colossal cities in Japan
- Ants, randomness and complexity
- Cognitive ergonomics
- The origins of human language
- Sudden death in athletes
- Eating behaviors: bounded rationality
- Covid, sleep and mental health
- Cancer and targeted therapies
- The metastatic cascade
- Therapeutic fasting and oncology
- Radiotherapy
- Stem cells and cancer
- Oncology: the search for a therapeutic vaccine
- Cancer and DNA methylation
- Circulating tumor cells
- Cancer and telomeres
- Cancer immunotherapy
- Cancers, ribosomes and nucleoli
- BRAF melanomas
- Preventing metastases and recurrences
- Doping: the Armstrong affair
- The fiasco of anti-doping efforts
- The Pistorius case: the anabolic steroid hypothesis?
- Biomechanics: the sprint (athletics)
- Professional football and sports medicine
- Telemetry in Formula 1
- Visual ergonomics in Formula 1
- Rituals and superstitions among Formula 1 drivers
- How Formula 1 drivers perceive death
Portraits & interviews — Culture
- Tahar Rahim
- Alain Decaux
- Yves Coppens
- Léo Ferré
- Raymond Devos
- Yves Mourousi
- François Cluzet
- Sandrine Bonnaire
- Steve McQueen
- André Dussolier
- Nicolas Cage
Portraits & interviews — Sport
- Pep Guardiola
- Sebastian Vettel
- David Beckham
- Mario Balotelli
- Eddy Merckx
- Football: Ajax Amsterdam's youth academy
- The medical care of Standard Liège's players
- Real Madrid
- Video refereeing (VAR)
- Remco Evenepoel
- Jürgen Klopp
Society
- Organ donation
- Fan coaching
- Youth suicide
- Population aging
- Economic crime