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FROM CELLS TO SELVES: Biobehavioral Development
FROM CELLS TO SELVES: Biobehavioral Development
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During 1998 and 1999, the NICHD staff engaged the scientific community in jointly developing a strategic plan to facilitate achieving its mission. The initial framework document for this plan, From Cells to Selves, highlighted four areas for immediate strategic development and described a series of scientific goals under each area. These four areas were as follows:
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Genetics and Fetal Antecedents of Disease Susceptibility includes the interaction of the genotype with socioeconomic, environmental, and psychological factors in the fetal and postnatal environment that contribute to health or the pathophysiology of diseases.
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Reproductive Health for the 21st Century comprises the biological and behavioral factors that allow couples to have healthy children when they want them and the reproduction-related conditions that may affect women during and after their reproductive years.
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Developmental Biology: Understanding Normal and Abnormal Development consists of the basic biological science necessary to understand early development in utero and through the time when many organ systems form.
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Biobehavioral Development includes research to better understand the developmental processes involved in forming cognitive, learning, emotional, social, and physical behaviors, and the biological and environmental factors that make infants, children, and adolescents more susceptible to behavioral disorders or to adopting risk-taking and violent behaviors.
This document refines the goals and objectives outlined under the area titled “Biobehavioral Development.”
To help establish the more detailed research agenda that follows, the NICHD convened a working group comprising distinguished scientists (see Appendix) from around the country and asked them to collaborate with Institute staff to identify and prioritize research goals and to suggest appropriate strategies to meet those goals. The working group drew upon ongoing planning efforts, previous emphasis areas, recent forums, workshops, conferences, and research findings to develop a draft of the strategic plan that would guide the Institute’s research agenda in biobehavioral development for the next 5 years.
The draft plan was posted on the NICHD Web site to allow members of advocacy groups, nonprofit organizations, the scientific community, and the general public to comment. In addition, the Institute shared the plan with members of the National Advisory Child Health and Human Development Council and with the Friends of the NICHD, a coalition of more than 100 professional and patient organizations committed to the Institute’s scientific mission. After consolidating and reviewing all comments, the NICHD revised and finalized the plan. This document is intended as a targeted, but flexible, blueprint that can be modified as new scientific findings, research opportunities, or resources become available.
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Genetics and Fetal Antecedents of Disease Susceptibility includes the interaction of the genotype with socioeconomic, environmental, and psychological factors in the fetal and postnatal environment that contribute to health or the pathophysiology of diseases.
•
Reproductive Health for the 21st Century comprises the biological and behavioral factors that allow couples to have healthy children when they want them and the reproduction-related conditions that may affect women during and after their reproductive years.
•
Developmental Biology: Understanding Normal and Abnormal Development consists of the basic biological science necessary to understand early development in utero and through the time when many organ systems form.
•
Biobehavioral Development includes research to better understand the developmental processes involved in forming cognitive, learning, emotional, social, and physical behaviors, and the biological and environmental factors that make infants, children, and adolescents more susceptible to behavioral disorders or to adopting risk-taking and violent behaviors.
This document refines the goals and objectives outlined under the area titled “Biobehavioral Development.”
To help establish the more detailed research agenda that follows, the NICHD convened a working group comprising distinguished scientists (see Appendix) from around the country and asked them to collaborate with Institute staff to identify and prioritize research goals and to suggest appropriate strategies to meet those goals. The working group drew upon ongoing planning efforts, previous emphasis areas, recent forums, workshops, conferences, and research findings to develop a draft of the strategic plan that would guide the Institute’s research agenda in biobehavioral development for the next 5 years.
The draft plan was posted on the NICHD Web site to allow members of advocacy groups, nonprofit organizations, the scientific community, and the general public to comment. In addition, the Institute shared the plan with members of the National Advisory Child Health and Human Development Council and with the Friends of the NICHD, a coalition of more than 100 professional and patient organizations committed to the Institute’s scientific mission. After consolidating and reviewing all comments, the NICHD revised and finalized the plan. This document is intended as a targeted, but flexible, blueprint that can be modified as new scientific findings, research opportunities, or resources become available.
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