The First 1,000 Days

Ben-Ari, Yehezkel: - Yehezkel Ben-Ari is a leading French neurobiologist with more than 500 papers in leading scientific journals and major awards, including the highest French biomedical award (INSERM) & the European and US epilepsy foundations prizes. He has discovered the electrical properties of the developing brain present in all animal species, including humans, and described common alterations observed in many brain disorders. He is the father of the geoarchaeology concept 'in utero insult deviate developmental processes', leading to persistent immature networks that are the cause of the clinical sequels and possible therapeutic targets. He has validated that, notably in autism.