Trinity College Dublin

General Information

Trinity College Dublin (TCD) is Ireland’s No.1 University. TCD is ranked 104th in the World by the QS World University Ranking 2018/19, and 120th in the top 200 world universities in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2018. By subject area of Medicine, TCD is ranked in the top 100 Universities in the world.

Role in AIMS-2-TRIALS

In collaboration with our AIMS-2-TRIALS colleagues at King’s College London (KCL), we will be investigating the clinical and neurocognitive profiles of families with rare genetic variants associated with neurodevelopmental disorders including autism spectrum disorder (ASD). We will be looking at the DNA of our participants, we will gather information about their brain activity using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and electroencephalography (EEG), and we will learn about their cognitive abilities using eye-tracking techniques and clinical assessments. We aim to identify different sub-groups of individuals with common features of ASD, which we hope will help in the development of new therapeutic and diagnostic strategies in the future.