Training Program in Multisensory Processes

多感官过程培训计划

• 批准号: 8261723
• 负责人: BARRY E STEIN
• 金额: $ 21.1万
• 依托单位: WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-07-01 至 2016-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8261723
• 关键词: Process; Training Programs; multisensory

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Project Summary The proposed training program is designed to meet the needs of an emerging discipline, and one reflecting the inherent similarities and distinctions among sensory systems. Surprisingly, this rapidly growing discipline of multisensory integration has a paucity of formal training opportunities and the present program offers a unique environment in which to meet this need at both the pre- and postdoctoral levels. Though its curriculum incorporates traditional topics relating to the development, organization, and perception/behavior derived from sensory processing in the different senses, the training program uniquely emphasizes the way in which sensory systems interact to markedly enhance or degrade the physiological salience of external events. Though bound together by common interests in hearing, the faculty provides expertise in each of the senses and, most importantly, has strong expertise in multisensory integration. Students in Neurobiology and Anatomy and the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience are eligible. The training program offers a singular experience in topics such as neuropharmacology, electrophysiology, modern neuroanatomy and immunohistochemistry, computational neuroscience, development, cognition, psychophysics, behavior, and hands-on experience with a variety of laboratory techniques. These are normally covered in a generic manner, but are addressed here in the context of how individual sensory modalities process sensory information and the mechanisms that underlie their synergistic function. Students rotate through laboratories to gain in-depth experience in several sensory systems, but also have mini-courses to give them practical experience in techniques beyond those they may use for a current research project. All students and faculty participate in a seminar series and journal club that is topic-keyed to the core courses in Sensory Neuroscience, ensuring continuing broad intellectual and collegial interactions. Students are exposed to training opportunities and experts that offer advice regarding career paths in addition to traditional tenure-track academic positions. The training faculty is a relatively small group of investigators involved in broad collaborative interactions providing a highly cooperative and rich interactive environment for trainees. A major focus for the training program continues to be the recruitment of underrepresented minorities. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Project Narrative Despite traditional emphasis on individual senses, there is growing appreciation that brains are inherently multisensory, and growing evidence that anomalies of multisensory integration contribute to a host of developmental and age-related disorders. These include, dyslexia, sensory processing disorder, and autism. Multisensory therapeutic regimens may better ameliorate the sensory deficits associated with acute brain trauma (e.g., neglect following stroke), and training programs emphasizing interactions among senses are essential to promote a better understanding of the debilitating effects of disease and the strategies necessary to ameliorate them.

描述（由申请人提供）： 项目摘要 拟议的培训计划旨在满足新兴学科的需求，并反映感觉系统之间固有的相似性和区别。令人惊讶的是，这个快速发展的多感官整合学科缺乏正式的培训机会，而目前的项目提供了一个独特的环境来满足博士前和博士后水平的这种需求。尽管其课程包含了与不同感官的感觉处理衍生的发展、组织和感知/行为相关的传统主题，但培训计划独特地强调感觉系统相互作用的方式，以显着增强或降低外部事件的生理显着性。尽管由于对听力的共同兴趣而聚集在一起，但教师们提供了每种感官的专业知识，最重要的是，在多感官整合方面拥有强大的专业知识。神经生物学和解剖学以及神经科学跨学科项目的学生有资格。该培训项目提供了神经药理学、电生理学、现代神经解剖学和免疫组织化学、计算神经科学、发育、认知、心理物理学、行为以及各种实验室技术的实践经验等主题的独特体验。这些通常以通用方式涵盖，但这里是在个体感觉方式如何处理感觉信息以及构成其协同功能的机制的背景下进行讨论的。学生轮流通过实验室，以获得多种感官系统的深入经验，同时也有迷你课程，为他们提供超出当前研究项目可能使用的技术的实践经验。所有学生和教师都参加以感觉神经科学核心课程为主题的研讨会系列和期刊俱乐部，确保持续广泛的知识和学院互动。除了传统的终身教职学术职位外，学生还可以获得培训机会和专家提供有关职业道路的建议。培训教师是一个相对较小的研究人员群体，参与广泛的协作互动，为学员提供高度合作和丰富的互动环境。培训计划的一个主要重点仍然是招募代表性不足的少数群体。 公共健康相关性：项目叙述 尽管传统上强调个体感官，但人们越来越认识到大脑本质上是多感官的，并且越来越多的证据表明多感官整合异常会导致一系列发育和与年龄相关的疾病。这些包括阅读障碍、感觉处理障碍和自闭症。多感觉治疗方案可以更好地改善与急性脑外伤（例如中风后的忽视）相关的感觉缺陷，而强调感觉之间相互作用的培训计划对于促进更好地理解疾病的衰弱影响以及改善这些影响所需的策略至关重要。