Predoctoral Training Program in Behavioral Brain Research

描述(由申请人提供)：拟议的博士前培训计划的目标是培训下一代行为科学研究人员，在理解跨越传统行为研究领域的大脑结构和功能的基础上，熟练地将神经科学的观点和方法纳入他们的研究计划。行为脑研究培训计划(T32)的具体目标是，通过前两年的课程作业和基于实验室的研究经验，为致力于行为科学和脑科学相结合的研究的研究生提供神经科学方法和视角的基础培训。此外，我们还将通过课程和独立的研究项目为学员提供行为科学研究方面的深度培训。最后，我们的目标是通过共同指导、实验室轮换体验和促进接触行为和脑科学研究的项目论坛，继续灌输交叉视角。专注于行为和大脑之间的接口的基础研究对于理解大量贯穿NIH研究所的人类健康问题的机制和治疗至关重要。NIGMS肩负着广泛的使命，是一个培训项目的天然发源地，该项目旨在跨越行为科学中传统上分离的研究路线，在行为和生物医学方法之间架起一座桥梁。通过将大脑作为共同的底物，行为研究不同子领域的重大进展可以最有效地整合在一起，从而将一个领域的进展平衡到其他研究领域。本培训计划将集中于三个主要研究主题，以实现整合：表征和沟通；评估和控制；学习、记忆和可塑性。培训计划将由匹兹堡大学和卡内基梅隆大学联合协调。这两所院校毗邻而居，在行为研究和神经科学方面都拥有卓越的表现，在研究生培训方面有着悠久的合作与合作历史，可以有效地结合起来，深化对下一代行为科学学生的神经科学培训，并拓宽神经科学整合的行为科学领域。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of the proposed predoctoral training program is to train the next generation of behavioral science researchers to skillfully incorporate neuroscience perspectives and methods into their programs of research, based on an understanding of brain structure and function that extends across traditional areas of behavioral research. The Behavioral Brain Research Training Program (T32) has the specific aim of providing graduate students committed to research at the interface of the behavioral and brain sciences with foundational training in neuroscience methods and perspectives, through coursework and laboratory-based research experiences in their first two years. Moreover, we will provide trainees with deep training in behavioral science research, via courses and independent programs of research. Finally, we aim for continued infusion of cross-cutting perspectives, through co-mentoring, laboratory rotation experiences, and program forums that foster exposure to behavioral and brain science research. Basic research focused on the interface between behavior and the brain is crucial for understanding the mechanisms and treatment of a large number of human health issues that cut across NIH Institutes. With its broad mission, NIGMS is the natural home of a training program that aims to bridge behavioral and biomedical approaches across traditionally separate lines of inquiry in the behavioral sciences. By focusing upon the brain as a common substrate, significant progress in different subfields of behavioral research can be most effectively integrated, thus leveraging advances in one area into other domains of study. This training program will focus on three major research themes to accomplish integration: Representation and Communication; Evaluation and Control; Learning, Memory, and Plasticity. The training program will be jointly coordinated by the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. Contiguous to one another and possessing excellence in both behavioral research and neuroscience, the institutions share a long history of collegiality and cooperation in graduate training that can be effectively combined to deepen the neuroscience training of the next generation of behavioral science students and to broaden the behavioral science fields within which neuroscience is integrated.