Multidisciplinary Training in Development and Learning

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一个独特的和非常有价值的跨学科培训计划，来自两个强大的机构（康奈尔大学和威尔康奈尔医学院），拥有一批熟练的生产力教师，专注于复杂和科学上重要的公共卫生问题。该计划将学习和发展的基本原则与临床问题联系起来，以培养转化发展神经科学新兴学科的个人。学生将开始在伊萨卡校园的基础培训，并继续在威尔康奈尔大学与联合课程，夏季轮换，导师，两个年度会议和视频会议研讨会，以整合他们的毕业生经验在整个培训。培训将向研究生以及医学生、本科生、住院医生和博士后开放，将包括各种科学学科，包括药理学、神经解剖学、电生理学、成像、动物模型和特定临床人群中的基因组和转基因方法。论文将由每个校区的教职员工共同指导，并在第二年年底由学生针对。这些学员将在如何选择和设计研究问题以及如何在临床环境中应用最新和最强大的技术方面接受特殊培训，从而将培训直接集中在转化研究上。针对的神经发育障碍包括自闭症、情感和情绪障碍、多动症、诵读困难和由环境和遗传因素引起的学习障碍。在该计划中接受培训的学生将使用最新的成像和基因组技术。因此，他们将拥有最好的基础和临床研究的培训和工具。 公共卫生相关性：该计划将学习和发展的基本原则与临床问题联系起来，以培养转化发展神经科学新兴学科的个人。这种设计研究问题的培训，并将这种技能应用于神经发育障碍的临床环境，并采用最新和最强大的技术，将产生新一代的翻译研究人员。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a unique and highly valuable interdisciplinary training program from two strong institutions (Cornell University and Weill Cornell Medical College) with a superbly skilled set of productive faculty, focused on complex and scientifically significant public health issues. The program links basic principles of learning and development with clinical questions to train individuals in a new emerging discipline of translational developmental neuroscience. Students will begin their fundamental training on the Ithaca campus and continue at Weill Cornell with joint courses, summer rotations, mentorship, two annual meetings and video teleconferenced seminars to integrate their graduate experience throughout the training. Training will be open to graduate students as well as medical students, undergraduates, residents and post doctoral fellows and will include a wide variety of scientific disciplines, including pharmacology, neuroanatomy, electrophysiology, imaging, genomic and transgenic approaches within animal models and specific clinical populations. Theses will be mentored jointly by faculty members at each campus and targeted by the student at the end of the second year. These trainees will emerge with exceptional training in both how to choose and design research questions and how to apply this skill in clinical settings with the most current and powerful techniques, thus concentrating their training directly on translational research. Neurodevelopmental disorders targeted include autism, affective and mood disorders, ADHD, dyslexia and learning impairments caused by environmental and genetic factors. Students trained in this program will use the most current imaging and genomic techniques. They will thus possess the training and tools of the best of basic and clinical research together. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The program links basic principles of learning and development with clinical questions to train individuals in a new emerging discipline of translational developmental neuroscience. This training in designing research questions and applying this skill in clinical settings to neurodevelopmental disorders and with the most current and powerful techniques will produce a new generation of translational researchers.