Change and diversity are essential characteristics of the cognition, behaviour, and brains of children, adolescents, and adults. This MSc course will take neurodiversity as a framework for understanding development across the whole human lifespan and how development varies between people. The course will provide a unique opportunity to gain advanced training in how to characterize diversity and development, and how to study them with the latest research designs and statistical methods.
Neurodiversity refers to variation in brain and cognitive functions including learning, attention, social ability, mood, and sleep. It provides a framework for understanding the factors that influence brain and behavior across the whole population and the whole lifespan; for understanding conditions such as brain injury, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), dyscalculia, dyslexia, dyspraxia, intellectual disability, mental health, and Tourette syndrome and for addressing the need for variation to be recognized, valued, understood, and accommodated..
