What We Do

Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) are conditions including intellectual disability, autism, and ADHD that begin in early childhood and that affect a person’s developing brain. The range of strengths and difficulties individuals with NDDs have vary widely.

Precision medicine, often also referred to as precision health, is an innovative approach to understanding human health and disease using data from multiple sources, such as information about medical diagnoses, biologic investigations including laboratory studies and imaging, and other environmental, demographic, and lifestyle factors. Precision medicine can be applied to a group of people, such as trying to understand why some children with NDDs have behaviours of concern, or to a specific individual, such as what treatment would be best for a specific child who has an NDD and behaviours of concern. The Precision Neurodevelopment Lab uses both types of approaches to help children with NDDs and their families.