My research program aims to better understand childhood development and the consequences of early brain trauma using various techniques (MRI, fMRI, PET, DTI, eye tracking, neuropsychological evaluation, longitudinal studies) to study target populations such as: healthy subjects, brain trauma, prematurity, behavioural disorders, childhood psychiatric disorders, metabolic/genetic diseases, other neuropsychological disorders, etc.
Several methodological and technological approaches are used, under four investigative fields:
- Study of normal childhood development (healthy population) and predicting factors of cerebral and cognitive maturation
- Investigation of the effects of perinatal (e.g. prematurity) and postnatal (e.g. cerebral trauma) brain injuries on cognition, social competence, quality of life and brain development
- Conception and validation of new tasks relating to cognition and social skills (e.g. moral reasoning, theory of mind, executive functions)
- Development of intervention programs for parents and children/adolescents with brain trauma