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Psychiatric disorders are among the most frequent and disabling health problems in industrialized countries. While recent research suggests that genetic and biological factors play a role in predicting psychiatric disorder incidence and persistence, social determinants such as gender, socioeconomic

From these data, breastfeeding duration appears far below the WHO recommendations. As a result, many infants received infant formula in the first few months of life and a wide range of infant formula is available on the market without being well described.The objectives of this work were 1/ to descr

Our protocol includes two separate studies, performed in parallel that will bring complementary answers to the question. i) We will search for a relationship between social factors in the pregnant mother and offspring’s epigenetic marks generated during embryogenesis and fetal development: inherite

How can the early psychosocial environment affect the human biological functioning to the point of influencing the development of a disease many years later and partly explaining social inequalities in health (SIH)? This is this question that the IBISS project is trying to investigate. The existenc

The year 2008 marked an important turn in terms of self-treatment , in a context of health expenses shortening and healthcare reforms. Following the example of Great Britain in 2000, the French government invited patients to support their own health for « benign situations », favouring free access t

Childhood learning disorders (dyslexia, dysorthography, dyscalculia) and psychological disorders (conduct disorders, emotional disorders, pervasive developmental disorders…) engender enormous social costs across the whole life span. It is therefore of utmost importance to understand the factors that