The evolution of neuroscientific knowledge seems to indicate a pathogenetic area common in intellectual disabilities, autism and schizophrenia. All genetic vulnerability and gene-environment interaction may play a decisive role in the formation of circuits for memory and other cognitive functions.
In Sierra De Atapuerca, near Burgos (North-Central Spain), a skull of a youth affected with synostosis lambdoidea and a severe intellectual disability was found. The findings show that he was helped to live as any other member of the group.