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The powerful bond of love between a mother and her child… on the scanner

"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.