Student Investigator Travel Awards for OHBM 2016

人脑成像组织(OHBM)是致力于非侵入性神经成像研究和人脑功能组织的主要国际组织。OHBM年会被视为整合创新的脑成像方法和认知神经科学的主要场所，并已出现，以满足脑成像科学界对论坛的需求，以传播研究结果，并使利用新兴的基于成像的方法研究大脑功能组织的科学家之间能够进行互动。自1994年以来，OHBM已经赞助了21次非常成功的会议，与会者接触到了尖端的神经成像数据采集方法、大规模神经成像数据分析的新兴方法、结果的可视化及其在健康和疾病中的应用。该奖项将资助有资格参加在瑞士日内瓦举行的2016年年会的学生和实习生的旅行奖励。旅行奖将颁发给25名摘要排名最高的学生。在这些奖项中，至少有15个旅游奖项将颁发给在3个目标群体(女性、少数族裔、残疾人)中摘要排名靠前的学生。年度会议为神经成像专业的学生提供了一种参加教育课程、听取顶尖大脑研究人员的讲座、形成新的合作以及展示他们的原创研究的手段。从历史上看，女性在数学和计算科学领域的比例一直很低。相比之下，在神经科学和心理学领域，这一比例都相对很高。因此，在统计学、计算机科学、心理学和神经科学的交叉领域工作的能力有望为不同的受众提供计算培训，并有助于弥合STEM领域的性别差距。此外，提高对人脑组织的了解与治疗神经和精神疾病直接相关，非侵入性成像方法的使用对临床神经科学中的翻译研究和培训越来越重要。随着神经成像在广泛的科学学科中应用，我们预计将在从经济和社会政策到医疗、教育和心理干预的各个领域为社会带来好处。

The Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) is the primary international organization dedicated to non-invasive neuroimaging research and the functional organization of the human brain. The Annual Meeting of OHBM is regarded as the premier venue for the integration of innovative brain imaging methods and cognitive neuroscience, and has emerged to address the need of the brain-mapping scientific community for a forum to disseminate findings and enable interactions among scientists investigating the functional organization of the brain with emerging imaging-based methods. Since 1994, the OHBM has sponsored twenty-one highly successful meetings, where attendees are exposed to cutting-edge neuroimaging data acquisition methods, emerging approaches to large-scale neuroimaging data analysis, the visualization of results, and their applications in health and disease. This award will fund travel awards for deserving students and trainees to attend the 2016 Annual Meeting to be held in Geneva, Switzerland. Travel awards will be given to the 25 students with the highest-ranked abstracts. Of these at least 15 travel awards will be awarded to the students with the top-ranked abstracts among 3 targeted groups (women, minorities, disabled). The Annual Meeting provides a means for students of neuroimaging to attend educational courses, hear lectures from leading brain researchers, form new collaborations, and to present their original research. Historically, female representation in the mathematical and computational sciences has been low. In contrast, in both neuroscience and psychology it has been relatively very high. Hence, the ability to work in the cross-section of statistics, computer-science, psychology, and neuroscience promises to provide computational training to a diverse audience and help bridge the gender gaps in the STEM fields. In addition, improved understanding of the organization of the human brain is directly relevant to treating neurological and psychiatric disease, and the use of non-invasive imaging methods is increasingly important to translational investigation and training in clinical neuroscience. As neuroimaging is used in a wide-range of scientific disciplines, we would expect benefits for society in areas ranging from economic and social policies to medical, educational and psychological interventions.