Lionel Naccache © Odile Jacob

NEUROLOGIST

France

Biography

A former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, Lionel Naccache holds a masters degrees in biochemistry and in neurobiology, and a PhD in neurosciences from Paris VI University. His thesis, written under the supervision of Prof. Stanislas Dehaene, is entitled “The Subliminal Perception
of Numbers : Psychological Properties and Functional Brain Imaging of Unconscious Cognitive Processes". Also he trained as a medical doctor, and became a registered practioner in1998. He now works both as a physician in the unit for nervous system diseases at Pitié – Salpêtrière in Paris and as a lecturer at Paris VI University and the Inserm (the French National Institute
of Health and Medical Research). His primary interest is the cerebral basis of consciousness.