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BrainBody
1-3 October 2025
 
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Laure Zago

Groupe d’Imagerie Neurofonctionnelle, Institut des Maladies Neurodégénératives UMR 5293 CNRS Université de Bordeaux

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Effects of myofascial massage on body-brain interactions

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Laure Zago is a CNRS senior researcher, working at the Groupe d’Imagerie Neurofonctionnelle, team of the Institute of Neurodegenerative Diseases. She completed her PhD in Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Lyon in 2000. Then, she joined Steve Kosslyn’s lab (Harvard University, Cambridge) and Moshe Bar’s lab (Martinos Centre for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston), where she worked on numerical cognition and visual priming with fMRI. In 2003, she was recruited as a CNRS research fellow and developed her research in a laboratory at the Cyceron Centre (Biomedical Imaging Platform) in Caen. In 2016, she joined the Institute of Neurodegenerative Diseases, where she developed a research theme on brain lateralization, cognition and inter-individual variability. Recently, she developed a new research theme related to the connection between the body and the brain, specifically with the study of the effects of myofascial massage therapy and body-centred meditation on physiological and brain markers related to stress, well-being and women's health.