The NIH Toolbox
The NIH Toolbox
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美国国立卫生研究院工具箱
作者：
R. Hodes;T. Insel;Story C. Landis
本期《神经学》特刊标志着多年来开发美国国立卫生研究院神经和行为功能评估工具箱（NIH工具箱）的努力揭幕。基于最先进的心理测量研究和新颖的测试方法，这种功能神经测量方法在概念上和设计上都是创新的。这一倡议和由此产生的一套仪器，得到了美国国立卫生研究院神经科学研究蓝图（NIH Blueprint）的支持，由来自近100个学术机构的250多名科学家组成的开发团队建立，有望为临床研究企业提供期待已久的规模经济和效率。NIH工具箱通过提供心理测量学上健全、前沿、适应性强的测量方法来实现这一目标，这些测量方法可以实现测量的一致性、数据共享和研究环境中发现的整合。
This special issue of Neurology® marks the unveiling of a multi-year effort to develop the NIH Toolbox for Assessment of Neurological and Behavioral Function (NIH Toolbox). Constructed based on state-of-the-art psychometric research and novel testing methods, this approach to functional neurologic measurement is as innovative in concept as it is in design. This initiative and the resulting set of instruments, supported through the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research (NIH Blueprint) and built by a development team of more than 250 scientists from almost 100 academic institutions, promises to provide long overdue economies of scale and efficiency to the clinical research enterprise. The NIH Toolbox achieves that end by providing psychometrically sound, cutting-edge, adaptable measures that enable uniformity of measurement, data sharing, and integration of findings in the research setting.