Research Network on Decision Neuroscience and Aging

描述（由申请人提供）：本基金的总体目标是促进决策神经科学和衰老的多学科科学研究网络的建立。我们寻求用这笔资金开发的综合新兴领域结合了心理学、神经科学和经济学等多个领域的优势，以促进科学的快速进步，并直接为制定有效的干预措施和政策做出贡献，以改善整个生命周期的健康和福祉。在5年的时间里，这个网络资助将支持科学会议、为所有阶段的研究人员提供密集培训讲习班，以及为该领域的新研究人员提供试点资助竞争。这些活动将直接支持衰老决策神经科学的成长、发展和可持续性。这笔赠款将通过传播活动支持网络的发展。科学会议将提高人们对最新发现的认识，目的是吸引新的研究人员进入该领域。一项小额资助竞赛将鼓励科学家加入该领域，并将通过小规模试点刺激新的研究。该网络赠款将通过方法讲习班支持该地区的发展。短期密集讲习班将侧重于培训各个阶段的研究人员，以便收集和分析各种新出现的行为（例如，经济、健康、社会）和生物（例如，神经化学、遗传、荷尔蒙）措施。这些技能的发展目前很难在传统的单一学科培训计划中实现，但对于利用未来该领域产生的越来越多的大型多元和多层次综合数据集至关重要。总的来说，该网络将通过确保邀请研究生、博士后研究员、初级和高级教师参加所有活动，重点投资于该领域的可持续性。研讨会、会议和小额资助机会将促进从管理网络活动的个人小组向领导该领域未来工作的强大研究人员领域的过渡。活动完成后，这一新兴领域将更有利于网络成员在未来利用更传统的机制寻求资金支持网络。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall goal of this grant is to facilitate the creation of a multidisciplinary scientific Research Network on Decision Neuroscience and Aging. The integrative emerging area that we seek to develop with this grant combines the strengths of several fields including psychology, neuroscience, and economics to facilitate rapid scientific progress and directly contribute to the development of effective interventions and policies to improve health and well being across the life span. Over five years this network grant will support scientific meetings, intensive training workshops for researchers at all stages, and a pilot grant competition for researchers new to the field. These activities will directly support the growth, development, and sustainability of the Decision Neuroscience of Aging. This grant will support growth of the network through dissemination activities. Scientific meetings will increase awareness of the latest findings with the goal of drawing new researchers into the area. A small grant competition will encourage scientists to join the area and will stimulate new research through small scale pilots. This network grant will support development of the area through methods workshops. Short, intensive workshops will focus on training researchers at all stages in the collection and analysis of various emerging behavioral (e.g., economic, health-related, social) and biological (e.g., neurochemical, genetic, hormonal) measures. The development of these skills is currently difficult to achieve in traditional single discipline training programs, but will be essential for taking advantage of the growing number of large multivariate and multi-level integrative datasets generated by this area in the future. In general the network will focus on investing in the sustainability of this field by ensuring that graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and junior and senior faculty are invited to participate in all activities. Workshops, meetings, and small grants opportunities will facilitate the transition from a small group of individuals managing network activities to a strong field of researchers leading future work in this area. After completion of activities, this emerging area will be in better position for network members to pursue funding to support the network in the future using more traditional mechanisms. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: As the proportion of older adults in the population continues to expand, magnifying the relative impact of their decisions, it is increasingly imperative to better understand changes in decision making across the life span The long-term goal of this network is to conduct integrative and multidisciplinary research that contributes directly to interventions aimed at improving health and well being in the daily lives of aging adults.