# MENTAL RETARDATION AND DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY

> **NIH NIH P01** · YALE UNIVERSITY · 1994 · $962,629

## Abstract

This application is for continuation of a Program Project funded by NICHD
since 1966 on Cognition and Motivation in Retarded Individuals. The Program
is a broadly-based effort aimed at understanding the roles of psychological
and biological processes in the development and functioning of individuals
with mental retardation and associated developmental disorders. We propose
to update this highly productive Program by new initiatives and
administrative structures. The Program emphasizes systematic research on
developmental processes which are relevant to the competence of children
with retardation syndromes, including psychological, psychosocial, genetic
and neurochemical factors. Studies concern developmental pathways leading
to disorder as well as to competence and adaptive functioning. Individuals
with a dual diagnosis of retardation and psychiatric/behavioral disorder
are a special focus. The Program is characterized by developmental
perspective, multidisciplinary approach, concurrent study of various types
of retardation and disorders which illuminate each other, methodologies
which cut across diagnostic groups, and interest in the relations among
constitutional and genetic factors and experience.

Six Project Areas are proposed: (I) Developmental approach to
psychopathology; (11) Biology and Competence --- Behavioral and biological
studies o-L@ Tourette's syndrome and neuropsychiatric disorders of
childhood; (III) Developmental approach to mental retardation; (IV) Autism
and pervasive developmental disorders; (V) Determining and mitigating the
adverse consequences of adolescent pregnancy; and (VI) Genetically
determined forms of mental retardation --- Fragile X and Down Syndrome.

Three Core Units will support the research activities: (A) Administration
and research dissemination; (B) Assessment and diagnosis; and (C)
Statistics and methodology.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 2194805
- **Project number:** 5P01HD003008-27
- **Recipient organization:** YALE UNIVERSITY
- **SAM.gov UEI:** FL6GV84CKN57
- **Principal Investigator:** EDWARD F ZIGLER
- **Activity code:** P01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 1994
- **Award amount:** $962,629
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1978-07-01 → 1995-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2194805

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 2194805, MENTAL RETARDATION AND DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY (5P01HD003008-27). Retrieved via MORVS 2026-10-25 from https://api.morvs.ai/grant/nih/2194805. Licensed CC0.

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