2024 Programme
Event #12
Saturday 31 August, 02.45 pm
Teatro degli Impavidi2 - euro 4.50
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Pierre Magistretti
Mind and body: a connection that produces gratitude
Gratitude, like every emotion we experience, is not merely a concept generated by our brain; it is also, and perhaps more importantly, a lived experience within our body. From William James' theory of emotions to Antonio Damasio's clinical research, we understand that a perception –whether of an external event or the reactivation of a memory or internal concept – becomes emotion through the somatic response linked to the perception itself. There is a "neuroanatomy of emotions" that connects mind and body, perceptions and mental representations with somatic responses. Functional imaging techniques enable us to visualise the neural circuits that create this bond.
Pierre Magistretti, born in Milan, is a physician and neurobiologist, Professor emeritus at the Polytechnic University of Lausanne (EPFL) and the Universities of Lausanne and Geneva. He is currently Distinguished Professor at KAUST University in Saudi Arabia and a foreign member of the National Academy of the Lincei, the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters, and a member of the European Academy and the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences. He is co-author with François Ansermet of “A ciascuno il suo cervello” (2008) and “Gli enigmi del piacere” (2012), both published by Bollati Boringhieri. With his wife Christine, he wrote a novel about Alzheimer's disease, “Il gioco della mente”, which will be published at the end of August by SEM.
Event #43extraFestival
Minotauro Institute, with Loredana Cirillo and Filippo Rosa
Thank you! What we have never told our children and students
