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Patrick Wild Centre researcher awarded prestigious fellowship to study potential new treatments for fragile X syndrome.

Dr Stephanie Barnes, a postdoctoral researcher in Dr Emily Osterweil’s lab at the Patrick Wild Centre, has been awarded a

Celebrating Five Years of the Patrick Wild Centre with our #wildmiles Campaign.

Starting on April 16th 2016, and running for the next 12 months, we’re asking our centre members and supporters to

Patrick Wild Centre Symposium: Multi-Disciplinary Innovations in Developmental Science

On Tuesday the 1st March The Patrick Wild Centre together with the Salvesen Mindroom Centre, will be hosting Guest Speaker

Launch of the family in residence project at the Patrick Wild Centre

Together with our colleagues at DART (Developmental Autism Research Technology) we have won funding to host a ‘family in residence’

Patrick Wild Centre Newsletter 2015

The latest edition of our Patrick Wild Centre newsletter is now available. You can read it online here: Patrick Wild

A trial of an iPad™ intervention targeting social communication skills in children with autism

Researchers of the Patrick Wild Centre investigated whether playing a specially-designed iPad™ game could help young children with autism develop

World leader in FXS research visits the Patrick Wild Centre

Professor Jen Darnell of The Rockefeller University in the US, was one of two guest speakers to join us at

The Fragile X Registry now has an online survey

It is now possible to become part of the Registry without needing to travel to Edinburgh. For more information or

Our computer based working memory intervention is now looking for children and adults with Fragile X Syndrome

The Patrick Wild Centre will be running a pilot study for child and adults with fragile X syndrome, of an

New research at the Patrick Wild Centre to study men who carry the fragile X premutation

The Patrick Wild Centre is starting a new research project studying men who carry the fragile X premutation. The study

Patrick Wild Centre to study a memory based intervention for fragile X syndrome

The Patrick Wild Centre have recently been awarded funding to conduct a pilot study in people with fragile X syndrome

New University of Edinburgh research centre to investigate learning difficulties

Children and young people with learning difficulties are set to benefit from a new £5 million research and support centre

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