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The Edinburgh Neuroscience Christmas Lecture from 2017 is delivered by Peter Kind, Professor of Developmental Neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh.

Autism Spectrum Disorders and Intellectual Disabilities affect 1-2% of our population yet we still have no rational therapeutic intervention to help affected individuals. Despite the current lack of medicines, novel technologies in the fields of genetics, imaging and preclinical models make the future look bright for discovering the fundamental biological mechanisms underlying severe forms of these conditions.

In this Christmas lecture, Peter examines the state of research into Autism Spectrum Disorders and Intellectual Disabilities and examines the potential impact of novel technologies on our ability to translate discovery-based brain sciences into real clinical impact.

In particular, he highlights how fundamental and clinical researchers within the Patrick Wild Centre, the Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain and the College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine more broadly are teaming up to develop novel approaches to provide a sea change in how we understand and treat these brain disorders.