Training Program in the Neurobiology of Cognition and Cognitive Disorders

认知和认知障碍神经生物学培训计划

• 批准号: 8134168
• 负责人: John David Sweatt
• 金额: $ 5.59万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-07-01 至 2013-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8134168
• 关键词: Cognition; Cognition Disorders; Neurobiology; Training Programs

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): An explosion of interest in cognitive neurobiology over the last 15 years has produced a corresponding demand for highly trained cognitive neurobiologists, and in addition a high demand for students trained in basic science with an interest and expertise in translating basic science advances into patient treatments and cures. In response to this demand, we propose to develop a four-year Training Program in the Neurobiology of Cognition and Cognitive Disorders at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). UAB is ideally poised to provide this novel type of Training Program. In the past decade UAB has made major financial, infrastructural and scholarly commitments to neuroscience research and training, including the recruitment of new outstanding chairs and faculty in neuroscience and the establishment of the McKnight Brain Institute, and new UAB Centers in Comprehensive Neuroscience, Glial Biology in Medicine, Neurodegeneration and Experimental Therapeutics, and Functional Neuroimaging. The proposed Training Program will have its administrative base in the Department of Neurobiology and include 42 training faculty from six basic science and six clinical departments in the UAB Schools of Medicine and Optometry. The goal of the Program is to train the next generation of leaders and thinkers in neurobiology research who have a solid foundation in molecular, cellular, and cognitive neuroscience, have exposure to current concepts in clinical research, value the importance of translating basic research into advancements in the treatment of cognitive disorders, and are prepared to use multidisciplinary and innovative research approaches to understand cognition and cognitive disorders. To achieve this goal, we propose to bring together a group of outstanding UAB faculty members working in cognition and cognitive disorders and allow them to teach a specialized curriculum including cqursework in molecular, cellular, developmental, integrative, medical, and cognitive neuroscience and diseases of the nervous system. In addition to this unique coursework, the specific "value added" components of the Training Program are a special translational/clinical training experience in patient-oriented research, dual basic science/clinical science mentorship and distinct extracurricular activities.

描述（由申请人提供）：在过去的15年中，对认知神经生物学的兴趣爆炸产生了对训练有素的认知神经生物学家的相应需求，此外，还对接受基础科学培训的学生的高需求具有兴趣和专业知识，这些学生在将基础科学疗法转化为患者治疗和遏制方面具有兴趣和专业知识。为了应对这一需求，我们建议在伯明翰（UAB）的阿拉巴马大学开发四年的认知和认知障碍神经生物学培训计划。 UAB理想地准备提供这种新型的培训计划。在过去的十年中，UAB对神经科学研究和培训做出了重大的财务，基础设施和学术承诺，包括招募新的杰出椅子和神经科学领域的教师以及McKnight Brain Institute的建立，以及在全面的神经科学领域，新的UAB中心，在医学，神经变性和实验性的Neurotic和Farmitional and Factigations和Farmitigations和Farmitigantigations和Farmitifications and Factigations and Factigations in and glial Bial Cology in in comentive Neuroscience。拟议的培训计划将在神经生物学系拥有其行政基础，其中包括来自六个基础科学的42位培训学院和UAB医学和验光学院的六个临床部门。该计划的目的是培训下一代领导者和神经生物学研究的思想家，他们在分子，细胞和认知神经科学方面具有扎实的基础，在临床研究中接触了当前的概念，重视将基础研究转化为认知障碍的进步，并准备使用多学科研究和创新的方法和知识研究的重要性。为了实现这一目标，我们建议将一群在认知和认知障碍领域工作的杰出的UAB教职员工组合在一起，并允许他们教授专门的课程，包括分子，细胞，发育，整合性，医学，医学和认知神经科学以及神经系统的疾病的CQURSEWORK。除了这项独特的课程外，培训计划的具体“增值”组成部分是针对患者研究，双基础科学/临床科学指导和独特的课外活动的特殊翻译/临床培训经验。