The Institute of Environmental Medicine (IEM) is partner of Paris 8 University, of IMASSA (French Army’s Institute of Aerospace Medicine) and of “Architecture et Développement” (Sonia Cortesse). Created the year 1987 in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

and launched by

Jacques Fradin Jacques Fradin (born 1954 in France) is a physician and cognitive and behavioural therapist (member of the French Association for Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy). He is working on developing a neuroscientific approach of the cognitive and beha ...

, it consists of a team of research neuroscientists and neuroscientists. The IEM is both dedicated to

neuroscience Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions and disorders. It is a multidisciplinary science that combines physiology, anatomy, molecular biology, development ...

research and neuroscience consulting within the transfer of innovative

management Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government body. It is the art and science of managing resources of the business. Management includes the activities o ...

skills, in order to offer

and

behavioral sciences Behavioral sciences explore the cognitive processes within organisms and the behavioral interactions between organisms in the natural world. It involves the systematic analysis and investigation of human and animal behavior through naturalistic o ...

resources to economic, institutional and social authorities, within the framework of

sustainable development Sustainable development is an organizing principle for meeting human development goals while also sustaining the ability of natural systems to provide the natural resources and ecosystem services on which the economy and society depend. The des ...

. The IEM is a French OSEO Innovation partner company. The IME has a dual vocation of research and transfer of skills to economic, institutional, health and social players, with a view to sustainable development. The first vocation of the Institute, assumed by its Research division, is to develop research in "medicine of lifestyles (en)" (environmental medicine), interdisciplinary in essence, which affects areas as varied as behavior, occupational health or the environment. The second vocation of the IME, assumed by its Consulting Division, is to transfer skills between interdisciplinary scientific research and the fields of health, management and organization. Directed by Prof. Farid El Massioui, the Psychology & Neurosciences Laboratory (LPN) of the Research Division carries out interdisciplinary work in basic and clinical research, at the crossroads of cognitive-behavioral therapies (CBT) and science:Membre de l'université Paris 8, il dirige plusieurs thèses dont celle d'Aurélie Van Dijk : http://www.theses.fr/129548677 * neurosciences (neurology, neuropsychology, cognitive neurosciences, and social neurosciences, etc.); * cognitive, clinical, and social psychology; * behavioral sciences, ethology.

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