Carver College of Medicine Clinical Neuroscientist Training Program (CNS-TP)

项目总结 阿尔茨海默病、神经胶质瘤、帕金森氏病、癫痫、中风和肌营养不良等脑部疾病 侧索硬化症摧毁了数百万患者及其家人的生活。尽管进行了数十年的研究 耗资数十亿美元的这些和其他脑部疾病仍然缺乏准确的诊断工具，有效的疾病- 修改疗法，适当的对症处理，甚至明确的机械性原因。这些 尤其是在基础科学知识取得令人难以置信的进步的情况下，失败尤为突出。因此，有一个 临床医生迫切需要参与人类大脑疾病的基础研究，因为他们非常适合 确定新的方法。爱荷华大学临床神经科学家培训计划(CNS-TP)是 旨在为培训优秀的神经学、神经外科和神经病理学住院医生提供有效的途径 基础研究，目标是增加继续长期职业生涯的受训者比例 多产的临床医生--科学家。

PROJECT SUMMARY Brain diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, glioma, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, stroke and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis devastate the lives of millions of patients and their families. Despite decades of research costing billions of dollars, these and other brain diseases still lack accurate diagnostic tools, effective disease- modifying therapies, adequate symptomatic managements, or even well-defined mechanistic causes. These failures stand out particularly in light of incredible advances in basic scientific knowledge. Thus, there is a critical need for clinicians to be involved in basic research on human brain disease since they are well suited to identify new approaches. The University of Iowa Clinical Neuroscientist Training Program (CNS-TP) is designed as an efficient pathway to train outstanding neurology, neurosurgery and neuropathology residents in basic research, with the goal of increasing the percentage of trainees who continue in a long career as productive clinician-scientists.