A New Course in the Neurobiology of Disease at Brandeis University

布兰代斯大学疾病神经生物学新课程

• 批准号: 7071928
• 负责人: Sacha B Nelson
• 金额: $ 6.38万
• 依托单位: BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-30 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7071928
• 关键词: education evaluation /planning; health science research potential; neurobiology; pathology; science education; university student

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of this grant is to develop and teach a new course in the neurobiology of disease at Brandeis University. The course will be offered to predoctoral trainees in the Brandeis Neuroscience training program and to other members of the Brandeis neuroscience community. The course will bring together faculty from five Brandeis University departments as well as clinicians and clinician-scientists from Boston area hospitals and medical schools. It will consist of lectures from Brandeis and outside faculty, student discussion of primary biomedical literature, attendance at Grand Rounds Conferences at nearby hospitals, small group meetings with clinical mentors, and small group research projects aimed at elucidating potentially fruitful approaches to key remaining problems in the pathobiology of particular diseases or sets of diseases. These projects and the outside lectures will be made available to the broader community via a course web site. If our training mission is successful, it will contribute to the education of a new generation of basic neuroscientists more comfortable with the facts, concepts and terminology of neurological and psychiatric medicine and allied fields. Such training is likely to better equip tomorrow's researchers to quickly identify key clinically relevant basic scientific problems that require solution for improved diagnosis and treatment of neurological and psychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia, depression, Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease, Huntington's Disease, mental retardation, autism, and epilepsy. Improved dialogue and communication between basic scientists and clinicians is likely to contribute to more rapidly moving advances at the bench back into the clinic.

描述（由申请人提供）：该补助金的目的是在布兰代斯大学开发和教授疾病神经生物学的新课程。该课程将提供给布兰迪斯神经科学培训计划的博士前学员和布兰迪斯神经科学社区的其他成员。该课程将汇集来自布兰迪斯大学五个系的教师以及来自波士顿地区医院和医学院的临床医生和临床科学家。它将包括布兰代斯和外部教师的讲座，主要生物医学文献的学生讨论，参加附近医院的大圆桌会议，与临床导师的小组会议，以及小组研究项目，旨在阐明潜在的富有成效的方法，以解决特定疾病或疾病组的病理生物学中的关键剩余问题。这些项目和外部讲座将通过课程网站提供给更广泛的社区。如果我们的培训使命成功，它将有助于教育新一代的基础神经科学家，使他们对神经和精神医学及其相关领域的事实、概念和术语更加熟悉。这样的培训可能会更好地装备未来的研究人员，以快速识别关键的临床相关的基础科学问题，需要解决的神经和精神疾病，如精神分裂症，抑郁症，阿尔茨海默氏病，帕金森氏病，亨廷顿氏病，精神发育迟滞，自闭症和癫痫的诊断和治疗。基础科学家和临床医生之间的对话和沟通的改善可能有助于更快地将实验室的进步带回临床。