The Centre aims to bring together clinicians, service users and academics with an interest in neurodevelopmental disorders, including attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, autism spectrum disorder and Tourette’s Syndrome.

Neurodevelopmental disorders such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Tourette’s Syndrome (TS), and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are common and impairing conditions that frequently co-exist and affect about one in 20 people across the lifespan.

The recognition of these conditions has increased rapidly in recent years leading to concerns about both over-diagnosis and under-diagnosis. The growing awareness that these conditions not only affect children and young people, but typically persist into adult life has created a significant unmet clinical and research need to understand developmental factors in presentation and treatment response.

CANDAL is unique because unlike other research groups that typically focus on a single disorder either in children or adults, this centre studies these conditions in combination and across the lifespan.