In the first thousand days of life, an individual neuromental matrix, generated by the specificity of the relationships that are formed between the fetus/infant/child and its caregivers, comes to be constructed, which will elaborate every subsequent experience in that individual's life and condition his or her neuropsychosomatic development into adulthood. Hence the crucial importance that such a matrix can be adjusted so that each subsequent experience can turn into a sufficiently good construction of that individual's “bodybrainmind,” rather than toward pathology. The dependence of human development on relationships produces the individual-specific “quality” of each individual mindbrain; that quality includes the structure of an individual parenting, which in turn in that individual who has become an adult will be a central factor in the “quality” of the neurodevelopment of his or her children: hence transgenerationality, now comforted by epigenetics. Hence the importance of care for perinatality, the first thousand days of life, aimed at all parents, for effective prevention and care for the enhancement of mental and physical health, not only for individuals, but for the future of our destiny.
It is in this perspective, which recognizes in the first 1,000 days of life the foundation of human development and future health, that the training course of the “WeCare Professionist” Master's program fits in, which recently concluded with a day of international discussion and insight at the Aula Magna of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Brescia. The final event of the Level I Interateneo Master's Degree “WeCare Professionist: prevention and interventions in the first 1000 days of life” was attended by about 500 people including Lecturers, students and outsiders from all over the country. During the day, the International Academic Conference “The Newborn Promise: Society's Best Investment” was held, with magisterial papers by four Lecturers, Economists and Neuroscientists, from different universities in the United States. The papers presented can be viewed below:
- Prof. Cristina Maria Alberini (New York University): https://youtu.be/KV31765jtUE
- Prof. Arthur Rolnick (University of Minnesota): https://youtu.be/iaD55bzMmSE
- Prof. Diana Ramos (University of Southern California): https://youtu.be/KXdJgnczinQ?si=17McCyucvGwiy5aj
- Prof. Aaron Sojourner (University of Minnesota): https://youtu.be/apiOH-mWa-A?si=9JUjvk0UwS_UQ6Dz