Meeting: 2012 Meeting of the Society for Social Neuroscience (October 2012, New Orleans)

会议：2012 年社会神经科学学会会议（2012 年 10 月，新奥尔良）

• 批准号: 1252498
• 负责人: John Cacioppo
• 金额: $ 1.49万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-10-15 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1252498&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Meeting; 2012; Society; Social; Neuroscience

The neurosciences have traditionally considered the nervous system as an isolated entity. However, recent research has amply demonstrated the considerable impact of social structures (e.g., mother-infant attachments, pair-bonds, stable versus unstable families) on brain development and function. These factors operate on the individual through a continuous interplay of neural, neuroendocrine, metabolic, immunologic, and genetic factors, in which the brain is the central regulatory organ and a malleable target of social factors. It is critical that the next generation of scientists be prepared to bring animal models and human studies together to bear on how precisely social factors are impacting human brain and biology. The current proposal contributes to this critical need through support for the forthcoming meeting of the Society for Social Neuroscience a meeting that emphasizes students and young scientists and that promotes a dialog across diverse disciplines, model systems, and methodologies. A major goal of the meeting is to provide graduate student trainees with interdisciplinary and international perspectives on social neuroscience. The program has been designed to ensure balance across gender, topics and career stage and to provide time and opportunities for discussions and interactions among student and faculty participants. In addition, the grant funds small but prestigious awards that subsidizes the travel of junior PIs and promising graduate students. The keynote speaker, the internationally renowned neuroscientist Giacomo Rizzolatti who discovered the mirror neuron system, is the recipient of many honors including the Golgi Prize for Physiology and the Grawemeyer Prize. As the keynote speaker in this year's meeting, Rizzolatti will illustrate the value of comparative research and will stimulate discussions among our members and our students regarding the importance of opening new dialogues between researchers who study animal models and those who study humans. The dissemination plan ensures these messages reach an audience beyond the attendees.

神经科学传统上认为神经系统是一个孤立的实体。然而，最近的研究充分证明了社会结构（例如，母婴依恋、配对关系、稳定家庭与不稳定家庭）对大脑发育和功能的影响。 这些因素通过神经、神经内分泌、代谢、免疫和遗传因素的持续相互作用对个体起作用，其中大脑是中央调节器官，也是社会因素的可塑性目标。下一代科学家必须准备好将动物模型和人类研究结合起来，以研究社会因素对人类大脑和生物学的影响。 目前的提案通过支持即将召开的社会神经科学学会会议来满足这一关键需求，该会议强调学生和年轻科学家，并促进跨学科，模型系统和方法的对话。会议的一个主要目标是为研究生学员提供社会神经科学的跨学科和国际视角。该计划旨在确保性别，主题和职业阶段的平衡，并为学生和教师参与者之间的讨论和互动提供时间和机会。此外，赠款资金小，但有声望的奖项，补贴初级PI和有前途的研究生的旅行。主讲人是发现镜像神经元系统的国际著名神经科学家Giacomo Rizzolatti，他获得了许多荣誉，包括高尔基生理学奖和Grawemeyer奖。作为今年会议的主旨发言人，Rizzolatti将说明比较研究的价值，并将激发我们的成员和学生之间关于研究动物模型的研究人员和研究人类的研究人员之间开启新对话的重要性的讨论。传播计划确保这些信息传达给与会者以外的受众。