Course Development in Neurobiology of Disease at the University of Iowa

描述(由申请人提供)： 爱荷华大学的神经科学研究生项目目前缺乏一门将神经生物学疾病机制与临床特征联系起来的课程，同时也强调当前和未来研究的领域。“疾病的神经生物学课程开发”的RFA为我们爱荷华州提供了一个机会来解决神经科学培训中亟需的这一部分。这是爱荷华州开设这门课程的理想时机；神经科学教员、系和学院管理人员都支持这一努力，而神经科学是爱荷华州的一个关键增长领域。指导这门课程的开发和实施的两位神经学家，保尔森博士和特拉内尔博士，为该项目带来了临床和科学专业知识的理想、互补的融合。主要目标是创建一门疾病神经生物学课程，为培训神经科学家提供对神经系统疾病机制的广泛、专题理解。在咨询委员会的帮助下，教员团队将开发一门为期一学期的课程，向学生传授神经和神经精神疾病的基本特征，并为他们未来的研究方向做好准备。这门课程将按主题分为五大神经科学疾病组，并将被整合到神经科学研究生的必修核心课程中。爱荷华州超过35名神经科学教员，他们是各种疾病的专家，已经表达了对参加这门课程的强烈兴趣。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The neuroscience graduate program at the University of Iowa currently lacks a course that links neurobiological disease mechanisms to clinical features while also emphasizing areas of current and future investigation. The RFA for "Course Development in the Neurobiology of Disease" provides us at Iowa with an opportunity to address this much-needed component of neuroscience training. The timing is ideal for the development of such a course at Iowa; the neuroscience faculty, and departmental and college administrators all support this endeavor, and neuroscience is a key growth area at Iowa. The two neuroscientists directing the development and implementation of this course, Drs. Paulson and Tranel, bring to the project an ideal, complementary blend of clinical and scientific expertise. The primary objective is to create a Neurobiology of Disease course that provides training neuroscientists with a broad, thematic understanding of disease mechanisms in nervous system disorders. With the aid of an Advisory Committee, the faculty team will develop a one-semester course that educates students in fundamental features of neurological and neuropsychiatric diseases and prepares them for future research directions. The course will be arranged thematically into five major neuroscience disease groups and will be integrated into the required core curriculum for neuroscience graduate students. More than 35 neuroscience faculty at Iowa, experts in a wide range of diseases, have expressed a strong interest in participating in this course.