Yearly Workshop in the Event-Related Potential Technique

描述（由申请人提供）：这项拟议的R25 NIH研究教育补助金的目的是继续支持一个非常成功的为期十天的强化夏季培训研讨会在事件相关电位（ERP）技术。该技术被广泛用于测量基础科学和临床科学领域的大脑活动的时间过程。该研讨会的目的是为开始和中级ERP研究人员，它将为他们提供ERP技术的基本方面的培训，为他们进行研究心理和大脑的正常和异常功能奠定坚实的基础。 项目主任是一位成熟的研究人员和教育工作者，他在使用ERP技术解决基础科学和临床科学问题方面具有丰富的经验。研讨会将在加州大学戴维斯分校的心智与大脑中心举行，该中心是ERP研究人员的大型和充满活力的社区。除了项目主任外，加州大学戴维斯分校的11名教师和其他大学的3名教师将担任年度研讨会的教师。 研讨会的参与者将来自不同的学科，包括认知科学，认知神经科学，临床心理学，实验精神病理学，神经学，精神病学，发展心理学，老年学，言语病理学和阅读障碍。这个多学科的参与者群体反映了ERP在许多专注于神经和心理功能的领域中的广泛应用。参与者还将代表各种职业阶段，包括研究生和医学生，博士后，居民，初级教师和高级教师，这反映了ERP技术现在被所有职业阶段的人所采用的事实。 研讨会将包括讲座、讨论和实验室活动。项目主任将提供一套关于ERP研究基础的综合讲座。专题讲座，包括先进的技术和临床人群的应用，将由其他教师。还将包括几个小组讨论，由研讨会教师领导，将重点放在以前发表的ERP论文中使用的方法。还将包括一系列指导性实验室活动。大量的外联和传播工作将把这次讲习班的教育效益传播给更广泛的研究人员。这些努力是基于一个网站，http://erpinfo.org，它提供了讲义，有关方法，数据分析软件和样本数据集，以世界各地的研究社区的信息。 该项目的最终目标是提高未来ERP研究的质量和数量，使这项重要技术能够对许多关注人类思维和大脑的基础科学和临床学科的科学进步产生更大的影响。 公共卫生相关性：精神和大脑疾病很普遍，可能对个人造成破坏，并导致巨大的经济负担。事件相关电位技术为理解这些疾病提供了强有力的手段，从对正常脑功能的基础科学研究开始，到用于发现和测试新治疗方法的生物标志物结束。拟议的研讨会旨在提高基础和临床科学家使用这种强大技术的能力，从而提高科学发现和治疗开发的速度。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this proposed R25 NIH Research Education Grant is to continue supporting a highly successful ten-day intensive summer training workshop in the event-related potential (ERP) technique. This technique is widely used to measure the time course of brain activity across a range of basic science and clinical science domains. The workshop is intended for beginning and intermediate ERP researchers, and it will provide them with training in the essential aspects of the ERP technique, giving them a solid foundation for conducting research on normal and abnormal functioning of the mind and brain. The project director is a well-established researcher and educator who has experience addressing both basic science and clinical science questions with the ERP technique. The workshops will be held at the Center for Mind & Brain at UC-Davis, the home of a large and vibrant community of ERP researchers. In addition to the project director, eleven faculty from UC-Davis and three faculty from other universities will serve as the faculty for the yearly workshops. The workshop participants will come from a variety of disciplines, including cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, experimental psychopathology, neurology, psychiatry, developmental psychology, gerontology, speech pathology, and reading disorders. This multi-disciplinary group of participants reflects the broad use of ERPs across the many domains that focus on neural and mental functioning. The participants will also represent a variety of career stages, including graduate and medical students, postdocs, residents, junior faculty, and senior faculty, which reflects the fact that the ERP technique is now being adopted by people at all career stages. The workshop will involve a combination of lectures, discussions, and laboratory activities. An integrated set of lectures on the fundamentals of ERP research will be given by the project director. Lectures on special topics, including advanced techniques and applications to clinical populations, will be given by the other faculty. Several small-group discussions will also be included, led by the workshop faculty, that will focus on the methods used in previously published ERP papers. A series of guided lab activities will also be included. Significant outreach and dissemination efforts will spread the educational benefits of this workshop to a broader group of researchers. These efforts are based on a web site, http://erpinfo.org, which provides lecture notes, information about methods, data analysis software, and sample datasets to the worldwide research community. The ultimate goal of this project is to increase the quality and quantity of future ERP research so that this important technique can have a greater impact on scientific progress in the many basic science and clinical disciplines that focus on the human mind and brain. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Disorders of mind and brain are prevalent, can be personally devastating, and lead to a substantial economic burden. The event-related potential technique provides a powerful means for understanding these disorders, beginning with basic science research on normal brain function and ending with biomarkers that are used in discovering and testing new treatments. The proposed workshop seeks to enhance the ability of basic and clinical scientists to use this powerful technique, thereby increasing the rate of scientific discovery and treatment development.