The Institut Robert-Debré du Cerveau de l’Enfant

Child development is based on the interaction between highly complex brain processes - which we are beginning to understand better - and a social and educational environment that provides the emotional security and sensory and cognitive stimulation necessary for the child's development.

This early period of life is a phase of great vulnerability, but also of great sensitivity to an optimal environment, enabling the child to realize his or her potential. Children follow diverse developmental trajectories due to the interaction of genetic, epigenetic and environmental factors...

To provide children with the tools they need for learning, education and health, we develop a coherent, cross-disciplinary approach - avoiding the usual compartmentalized approach - between health and education, normal and pathological, brain and mind, emotions and cognition.

This integrated approach will make it possible to respond to the multiple challenges facing today's children, and in particular the most vulnerable among them, in a rapidly changing environment.