"For the love of science...and that of a mother and her child":here is the sentence that could sum up this scanner, carried out by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This image, the scientists did not make it as part of a study or research on a patient, but just because they wanted to. In the images, we discover Rebecca Saxe, a neuroscientist who specializes in studying the neuronal reactions of children during the reading of a story, who holds her 2-month-old baby, Percy, in her arms.
"Looking at this image, some see the differences between our brains:his very thin skull, the very small space between his brain and the outside world, ... A child is so fragile, his skull is still only a very thin shell ", she explains to Today.com, before adding that on the other hand:"you can look at this image and see a strong similarity between our two beings and how close we can be physically, by a single kiss. »
From then on, we understand that behind this image, there is a much greater message:"A Mother and her Child constitute a powerful symbol of love and innocence, of beauty and fertility. Nevertheless, maternal values and the woman who embodies them can be vulnerable, and usually set against other values in people's minds, such as intellect and thought, progress and power. But I'm a neurobiologist, who made this image, and I'm also a mom, curled up here against my child," she told Smithsonian. A scanner that reminds us that despite certain stereotypes, we can be both a mother and a woman, who has her own universe, her own personality and a life outside of her child, while loving him fully and deeply.
