Environment and Child Brain Development. The Challenges in the Global Context

To test children and adolescents from the general population is a matter of concern in order to understand the patterns of normal brain development. Neuroimaging has barely been used in epidemiological studies of large populations. It is time for a debate between neuroscientists and neuro-epidemiologists interested to develop neuroimaging assessments in these important studies.

The aim of the meeting organized jointly by B·Debate and the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), a research center of ISGlobal, is to generate debate and share latest results on the impact of environmental conditions on brain development.

The meeting will bring together leading neuroscientists, neurologists, neuropsychologists, psychologists, neuro-epidemiologists. The debates will focus on several major issues like find a consensus on the range of ages during childhood and adolescence to study the brain’s structure and function, the need to determine the role of neuroimaging future research to characterize brain maturation, or discuss public health policies and preventive treatments to develop in short and medium term.