Training Program in the Neurobiology of Cognition and Cognitive Disorders

认知和认知障碍神经生物学培训计划

• 批准号: 7816630
• 负责人: John David Sweatt
• 金额: $ 17.88万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-07-01 至 2013-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7816630
• 关键词: Cognition; Cognition Disorders; Neurobiology; Training Programs

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): An explosion of interest in cognitive neurobiology over the last 15 years has produced a corresponding demand for highly trained cognitive neurobiologists, and in addition a high demand for students trained in basic science with an interest and expertise in translating basic science advances into patient treatments and cures. In response to this demand, we propose to develop a four-year Training Program in the Neurobiology of Cognition and Cognitive Disorders at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). UAB is ideally poised to provide this novel type of Training Program. In the past decade UAB has made major financial, infrastructural and scholarly commitments to neuroscience research and training, including the recruitment of new outstanding chairs and faculty in neuroscience and the establishment of the McKnight Brain Institute, and new UAB Centers in Comprehensive Neuroscience, Glial Biology in Medicine, Neurodegeneration and Experimental Therapeutics, and Functional Neuroimaging. The proposed Training Program will have its administrative base in the Department of Neurobiology and include 42 training faculty from six basic science and six clinical departments in the UAB Schools of Medicine and Optometry. The goal of the Program is to train the next generation of leaders and thinkers in neurobiology research who have a solid foundation in molecular, cellular, and cognitive neuroscience, have exposure to current concepts in clinical research, value the importance of translating basic research into advancements in the treatment of cognitive disorders, and are prepared to use multidisciplinary and innovative research approaches to understand cognition and cognitive disorders. To achieve this goal, we propose to bring together a group of outstanding UAB faculty members working in cognition and cognitive disorders and allow them to teach a specialized curriculum including cqursework in molecular, cellular, developmental, integrative, medical, and cognitive neuroscience and diseases of the nervous system. In addition to this unique coursework, the specific "value added" components of the Training Program are a special translational/clinical training experience in patient-oriented research, dual basic science/clinical science mentorship and distinct extracurricular activities.

描述（由申请人提供）：在过去的15年里，对认知神经生物学的兴趣激增，对训练有素的认知神经生物学家产生了相应的需求，此外，对基础科学训练的学生也有很高的需求，他们对将基础科学进步转化为患者治疗和治愈有兴趣和专业知识。为了应对这一需求，我们建议在阿拉巴马大学伯明翰分校（UAB）开展为期四年的认知和认知障碍神经生物学培训计划。UAB非常适合提供这种新型的培训项目。在过去的十年里，UAB在神经科学研究和培训方面做出了重大的财政、基础设施和学术承诺，包括招聘新的神经科学杰出的主席和教师，建立麦克奈特脑研究所，以及新的UAB综合神经科学中心，医学胶质生物学中心，神经变性和实验治疗中心，以及功能神经成像中心。拟议的培训计划将以神经生物系为行政基地，包括来自UAB医学院和视光学院六个基础科学和六个临床部门的42名培训教师。该计划的目标是培养下一代神经生物学研究的领导者和思想家，他们在分子，细胞和认知神经科学方面有坚实的基础，了解临床研究中的最新概念，重视将基础研究转化为认知障碍治疗的重要性，并准备使用多学科和创新的研究方法来理解认知和认知障碍。为了实现这一目标，我们建议汇集一群在认知和认知障碍领域工作的杰出UAB教师，并允许他们教授一门专业课程，包括分子、细胞、发育、综合、医学和认知神经科学和神经系统疾病的课程。除了这一独特的课程外，培训计划的具体“增值”部分还包括以患者为导向的研究、基础科学/临床科学双重指导和独特的课外活动的特殊转化/临床培训经验。