Cognitive Disorders and Neurological Vulnerability

In this SERIE students will be interested in the question of inequalities and which ones we need to report, to explain why some individuals are better able to cope with cognitive disorders than others. Cognition, at the level of a population, can only be understood thanks to the concept of cognitive reserve, which explains why some individuals with a healthy life style build stronger brain connectivity and better resist to brain pathological processes. Vulnerability is an even broader vision than cognitive reserve, since it presupposes that childhood health, common risk factors, living and working environments, life events and many other variables influence cognitive performance in daily life. 

Trans-disciplinarity is essential to account for these complex interactions. 

You can't understand vulnerability, its relationship to cognition, if you don't use different multidisciplinary approaches, and that's exactly what we're doing in the module we're offering. For example, we use cognition, psychology, neuropsychology, social psychology, but also statistical sciences, machine-learning, epidemiology. And finally, we need to draw inspiration from biology, medicine, and all knowledge about the brain or the factors that influence it.