Futurapolis Health

Even though it weighs only about 2% of the body’s weight, the brain is made up (among other things) of nearly a hundred billion neurons, connected by a staggering number of connections. It is the seat of our thoughts and emotions, our memory, our behaviors, and our ability to interact with the world. In short, it is our humanity. Well protected within the skull, it has yet to reveal all its secrets.
This year, at Futurapolis Health, researchers, neurologists, psychiatrists, neurosurgeons, and other health professionals will make the latest knowledge about the functioning of this organ and the advances in research accessible. Why and how do we create our inner cinema? How do the brains of expectant mothers and their fetuses evolve during pregnancy and after birth? How do profilers work during criminal investigations?
The forum will also dedicate significant attention to the well-being of young people as well as mental illnesses. In particular, it will address treatment-resistant depression and the most recent and effective ways to combat it. Additionally, specialists will explain what can truly be expected from transcutaneous neuromodulation (electric, magnetic, or light stimulation) and which patients are likely to benefit from it.
The public will be able to discover, as if they were in the operating room, how to "insert" catheters into a patient’s body by navigating through blood vessels to reach the site of a stroke or an aneurysm and treat it. They will also witness the removal of a brain tumor from a conscious patient, in order to preserve the most useful areas of their brain and thus maintain their quality of life. Fascinating images await.
Finally, a health pathway will be offered to you – in addition to numerous workshops and other activities – to test your physical and mental fitness. The two are linked. Two millennia ago, the Roman poet Juvenal declared: "Mens sana in corpore sano". So, meet us at and around the Opéra Comédie on October 9 & 10.

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