WESTERN MEDICAL REHABILITATION RESEARCH NETWORK

华盛顿大学将建立一个医疗康复研究网络，该网络将促进美国西部15个州的高质量康复研究。该网络将(1)促进临床医生和基础科学家进行新的康复研究，(2)吸引有才华的研究人员到该领域，(3)促进以康复研究为中心的问题的互动方法，(4)作为教育资源，提高对康复研究感兴趣的能力。该网络将包括两个科学资源核心、一个信息技术核心和一个行政核心。它还将每年资助最多三个利用该网络科学资源服务的试点项目。实验设计和生物统计学科学资源核心将响应许多调查的需要，以获得关于康复研究的复杂环境设计的专门知识。这一核心的一个要素将是康复研究的设计和进行。第二个要素是为康复研究人员开发一门实验设计课程。第二个要素将是为康复研究人员开发一门实验设计课程。这门课程的形式将是模块化的，最初将作为华盛顿大学的强化短期课程在现场进行试点。随着课程模块的完善，它们将作为基于网络的交互式学习模块提供。功能成像科学资源核心将设在加州大学洛杉矶分校(UCLA)的脑地图中心。该核心将提供使用功能磁共振成像(FMRI)和经颅磁刺激的神经系统实验研究的设计、实施和分析方面的专业知识。加州大学洛杉矶分校的核心科学家将帮助新的研究人员获得经验并试点功能磁共振数据。信息技术核心将向各区域的康复研究人员宣传该网络提供的资源，将实施和管理一个互动式网站，康复研究人员可在该网站上查阅由该网络开发的材料，并将提供有关赠款资金来源信息的链接。在每个项目期内，将资助三个利用研究资源核心的试点项目，每个项目的最长期限为两年。

The University of Washington will establish a Medical Rehabilitation Research Network that will facilitate high quality research in rehabilitation in the 15-state western region of the United States. This network will (1) promote new rehabilitation research by clinicians and basic scientists, (2) attract talented investigators to the field, (3) foster interactive approaches to questions central to the rehabilitation research, (4) serve as an educational resource to enhance the capabilities interested in rehabilitation research. The network will include two Scientific Resource Cores, an Information Technology Core, and an Administrative Core. It also will fund up to three pilot projects annually that utilize the services of the network's scientific resources. The Experimental Design and Biostatistics Scientific Resource core will respond to the need of many investigations to access expertise regarding the complex environmental design of studies in rehabilitation. One element of this core will be in the design and conduct of research studies in rehabilitation. Second element will be the development of an experimental design course for rehabilitation researchers. A second element will be the development of an experimental design course for rehabilitation researchers. This course, which will be modular in format, will initially be piloted on-site as an intensive short course in the University of Washington. As the course modules are refined, they will be made available as interactive Web-based learning modules. The Functional Imaging Scientific Resource core will be based at the Brain Mapping Center of the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). This core will provide expertise on the design, implementation, and analysis of experimental studies of the nervous system that use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and transcranial magnetic stimulation. Core scientists at UCLA will assist new investigators to obtain experience and pilot fMRI data. The Information Technology Core will publicize the resources available from the network to rehabilitation researchers in the regions, will implement and manage an interactive Web site on which materials developed by the network can be accessed by rehabilitation researchers, and will provide linkages to information about grant funding sources. Three pilot projects that utilize the Research Resource Cores will be funded during each project period, with a maximum duration of two years each.