Explore child development through neuroscience and psychology: attachment, learning, emotions, and how early environments shape the developing brain.
How do our earliest emotional and sensory experiences shape not only the developing brain but also the deepest layers of our subjectivity, influencing our capacity to feel, think and create? Where connection begins: early interactions and the birth of the self Childhood forms the foundational platform on which the psyche develops. During these early years,…
Attachment begins long before speech emerges. It is woven through daily bodily exchanges, a shared gaze, a hand resting on the skin, a breathing rhythm that slowly synchronizes over the first years of life. Before language and before the child can shape any form of self narrative, there is skin to skin contact, the cadence…
Born from the need to live together, the human brain thinks, feels, and acts in constant relation with others. Shaped by social life, it deciphers intentions, shares emotions, and continuously adjusts its behavior to those around it. This vast network of interactions—what researchers call the social brain—forms the biological foundation of empathy, cooperation, and mutual…
To grow is to conquer, step by step physically and mentally, It’s a long and delicate choreography, where every gesture attempted, every movement explored, and every balance achieved helps shape the child. Long before learning to read or count, children discover the world through their bodies through movement, gaze, posture, and hand play. These early…
She was only 14. That morning, she woke up like any other day. But something had changed. The day before, the results came in, she had failed her final exam for the third year of middle school. A single word, failure, and her world crumbled. A few hours later, she climbed to the third floor…
In 1799, deep within a forest in southwestern France, villagers witnessed a scene reminiscent of a bygone era: a child, naked, filthy, his hair tangled, fled from human presence like a hunted animal. He had survived alone for years, immersed in the wilderness. This boy, later known as Victor of Aveyron, would captivate scientists, philosophers,…