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Research
Emphasis Areas
Research Affiliates
Core Services
Behavioral
Science Core
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Infant Primate
Research
Laboratory
Instrument
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Laboratory
Neuroscience Core
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Research Emphasis Areas
The Center
on Human Development and Disability has established 12 Research
Emphasis Areas (REAs). They are cross-disciplinary and reflect
a significant research investment by CHDD's Eunice Kennedy Shriver Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center
(IDDRC).
The REAs
include specific disorders such as autism and fragile X syndrome,
classes of disorders such as neurodegenerative disorders,
and classes of factors likely to produce atypical development
such as infectious disease and immunology, ecological factors
and developmental toxicology. |
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Each REA has a coordinator who encourages
research in his or her REA, strengthens its interdisciplinary components,
identifies unique needs associated with each area, adds new members
as needed, and makes connections to clinical activities where appropriate.
Special REA seminars are organized to further stimulate collaboration
and new developments.
A number of REAs have built upon groups
that have already obtained substantial research support for multidisciplinary
research, such as fetal alcohol syndrome,
autism, Fragile X syndrome, developmental toxicology and craniofacial
malformations. The REA structure also provides a useful mechanism
for promoting connections among REAs themselves, as many scientific
questions and methodological problems and solutions clearly extend
to many groups.
The Research Emphasis Areas are:
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