
Prof. Éric Guedj, “impact du stress émotionnel collectif sur le cerveau”, Listen this Podcast (9.27mn) – Season 3 of “Dans les pas d’Archimède”
Published by AMU and distributed in INFUSE magazine, this series of podcasts gives our researchers a platform to recount the story of one of their discoveries.
Here, Professor Eric Guedj presents his work, born of an intuition during COVID-lockdown, which opens up new perspectives on our knowledge of the brain and questions our collective relationship with stress, mental health, and the environment.

Credits : Charlotte Henry de Villeneuve & Merry Royer (EJCAM), HDV (music)
Open Access Articles :
“The impact of COVID-19 lockdown on brain metabolism”, Human Brain Mapping, Vol. 43, Issue 2, February 2022, Pages 593-597
“Emotional stress during the COVID-19 lockdown: how negative X/Twitter posts correlated with changes in the brain’s fear network”, Front. Nucl. Med., 10 June 2025, Sec. PET and SPECT, Volume 5 – 2025
