Intellectual and developmental disabilities research centers: Fifty years of scientific accomplishments

Steven U Walkley; Leonard Abbeduto; Mark L Batshaw; Anita Bhattacharyya; Susan Y Bookheimer; Bradley T Christian; John N Constantino; Jean de Vellis; Daniel A Doherty; David L Nelson; Joseph Piven; Annapurna Poduri; Scott L Pomeroy; Rodney C Samaco; Huda Y Zoghbi; Michael J Guralnick; Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Centers Directors Committee

doi:10.1002/ana.25531

Intellectual and developmental disabilities research centers: Fifty years of scientific accomplishments

Ann Neurol. 2019 Sep;86(3):332-343. doi: 10.1002/ana.25531. Epub 2019 Jul 27.

Authors

Steven U Walkley¹, Leonard Abbeduto², Mark L Batshaw³, Anita Bhattacharyya⁴, Susan Y Bookheimer⁵, Bradley T Christian⁶, John N Constantino⁷, Jean de Vellis⁵, Daniel A Doherty⁸, David L Nelson⁹, Joseph Piven¹⁰, Annapurna Poduri¹¹, Scott L Pomeroy¹¹, Rodney C Samaco⁹, Huda Y Zoghbi⁹, Michael J Guralnick¹²; Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Centers Directors Committee

Collaborators

Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Centers Directors Committee:
Leonard Abbeduto, Susan Bookheimer, Qiang Chang, John Colombo, John N Constantino, Vittorio Gallo, Michael J Guralnick, E Mark Mahone, Jeffrey Neul, Joseph Piven, Scott L Pomeroy, Michael B Robinson, Peter G Smith, Steven U Walkley, Huda Y Zoghbi

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Rose F. Kennedy Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, Bronx, NY.
² Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Davis, University of California, Davis Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders Institute, Sacramento, CA.
³ Children's Research Institute, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC.
⁴ Department of Cell and Regenerative Biology, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI.
⁵ Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Intellectual and Developmental Research Center, University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA.
⁶ Departments of Medical Physics and Psychiatry, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI.
⁷ Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, Washington University in St Louis Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, St Louis, MO.
⁸ Department of Pediatrics, Center on Human Development and Disability, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
⁹ Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Texas Children's Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, Houston, TX.
¹⁰ Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, University of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC.
¹¹ Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, Boston, MA.
¹² Departments of Psychology and Pediatrics, Center on Human Development and Disability, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Abstract

Progress in addressing the origins of intellectual and developmental disabilities accelerated with the establishment 50 years ago of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health and associated Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Centers. Investigators at these Centers have made seminal contributions to understanding human brain and behavioral development and defining mechanisms and treatments of disorders of the developing brain. ANN NEUROL 2019;86:332-343.

Publication types

Historical Article
Review

MeSH terms

Academies and Institutes / history*
Developmental Disabilities*
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Humans
Intellectual Disability*
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U.S.) / history*
United States

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding