Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders

神经科学与神经系统疾病论坛

• 批准号: 1839674
• 负责人: Sheena Posey Norris
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: National Academy of Sciences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1839674&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Forum; Neuroscience; Nervous; System; Disorders

The human nervous system is remarkably complex, and nervous system disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease and depression pose a substantial public health and economic challenge, affecting approximately half of Americans at some point in life. Understanding how the nervous system develops, functions, and ages—in both health and disease—is critical for developing safe and effective treatments. Many federal agencies are involved in this endeavor—including the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Department of Veterans Affairs, Food and Drug Administration, and Department of Defense—as well as academic researchers, private sector companies, disease-focused organizations, and philanthropic foundations. To tackle fundamental questions about the brain, it is also becoming increasingly important to extend beyond traditional neuroscience and integrate expertise across a broad range of fields, including social and behavioral sciences, mathematics, statistics, materials science, physics, computer science, and engineering. Recognizing the need for crosscutting efforts, in 2006 the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine established the Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders to convene the wide range of leaders and stakeholders in this domain. Through its meetings, workshops, and other activities, the Forum tackles emerging issues and key challenges related to scientific needs and opportunities, priority setting, and policies related to fundamental neuroscience research; the development, regulation, and use of treatments; and related ethical, legal, and social implications. With this award, NSF continues to join other participating federal agencies and organizations in supporting this neutral venue for exchanging information, differing perspectives, and opportunities for collective action. The Neuroscience Forum brings together leaders from government, industry, academia, disease advocacy organizations, and other interested stakeholders. Neuroscience Forum members meets two or three times per year and the Forum also sponsors two or three public workshops per year, publishes workshop proceedings, and commissions papers as additional mechanisms for engaging its membership, other experts and stakeholders, and the public. To ensure that the Neuroscience Forum serves as a venue for on-going and timely discussions, topics are selected by the members to address emerging needs and advances in the field. In recent years, the Neuroscience Forum has addressed topics such as disseminating tools and technologies that are being developed through the BRAIN Initiative, legal implications of emerging neurotechnologies, scientific opportunities afforded by new transgenic nonhuman primate models.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

人类神经系统非常复杂，神经系统疾病如阿尔茨海默病和抑郁症构成了重大的公共卫生和经济挑战，影响了大约一半的美国人在生活中的某个时候。了解神经系统在健康和疾病中的发育、功能和年龄对于开发安全有效的治疗方法至关重要。许多联邦机构都参与了这一努力，包括国家科学基金会，国家卫生研究院，退伍军人事务部，食品和药物管理局和国防部，以及学术研究人员，私营部门公司，以疾病为重点的组织和慈善基金会。为了解决有关大脑的基本问题，超越传统神经科学并整合广泛领域的专业知识也变得越来越重要，包括社会和行为科学，数学，统计学，材料科学，物理学，计算机科学和工程学。认识到跨领域工作的必要性，2006年，美国国家科学院、工程院和医学院成立了神经科学和神经系统疾病论坛，召集该领域的广泛领导人和利益相关者。通过其会议，研讨会和其他活动，该论坛解决了与科学需求和机会，优先事项设置和与基础神经科学研究相关的政策有关的新问题和关键挑战;治疗的开发，监管和使用;以及相关的伦理，法律的和社会影响。有了这个奖项，NSF继续加入其他参与的联邦机构和组织，支持这个交换信息、不同观点和集体行动机会的中立场所。神经科学论坛汇集了来自政府，工业，学术界，疾病倡导组织和其他感兴趣的利益相关者的领导者。神经科学论坛成员每年举行两到三次会议，论坛每年还赞助两到三次公共研讨会，出版研讨会记录，并委托论文作为参与其成员，其他专家和利益相关者以及公众的额外机制。为了确保神经科学论坛作为一个持续和及时讨论的场所，主题由成员选择，以解决该领域的新需求和进展。近年来，神经科学论坛讨论了一些主题，如通过BRAIN Initiative开发的工具和技术的传播，新兴神经技术的法律的影响，新的转基因非人类灵长类动物模型提供的科学机会。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。