Université de Technologie de Compiègne

Hirudotherapy in France: Historical Rise, Decline, and Contemporary Clinical Revival — A Narrative Review with an Ayurvedic Perspective

Background: France holds a unique place in the history of medicinal leech therapy (hirudotherapy). During the nineteenth century it was the world's largest consumer of medicinal leeches, and it retains a leech-farming tradition in Gironde that dates to that period. Objective: To...

Possibilities of Reciprocity and Non-Reciprocity: A Minimalist Experimental Study of Perceptual Interaction

Reciprocal perceptual interactions (e.g., mutual gaze) play a central role in social cognition. However, reciprocity only fully makes sense in relation to the possibility of non-reciprocity: others may not perceive what we perceive or what we do. This enables concealment, decepti...