Research Network on Decision Neuroscience and Aging

项目总结/摘要 这笔赠款的总体目标是继续支持多学科科学研究网络， 决策神经科学与衰老这项赠款将支持的综合性新兴领域结合了 包括心理学、神经科学和经济学在内的几个领域的优势，以促进快速的科学研究。 * 取得进展，并直接促进制定有效的干预措施和政策，以改善健康 和幸福的生活。在五年内，该网络赠款将支持科学会议， 为各个阶段的研究人员举办培训讲习班、协作和指导倡议以及试点赠款 竞争的研究人员新的领域。这些活动将直接支持增长，发展， 和可持续性的决定神经科学老化。这笔赠款将支持网络的增长， 传播活动。科学会议将提高人们对最新发现的认识， 吸引新的研究人员进入该领域，并鼓励新的合作。一个小的赠款竞争将 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。这个网络 赠款将通过方法讲习班和外部指导计划支持该地区的发展。 短期密集讲习班将侧重于培训研究人员在收集和分析 各种新兴的行为（例如，与健康有关的、社会的、经济的）和生物的（例如，神经化学， 遗传、激素）措施。这些技能的发展目前在传统的 单一学科的培训计划，但将是必不可少的利用越来越多的大型 该领域未来将产生多元、多层次的综合数据集。总的来说，网络将 通过确保研究生，博士后研究员， 并邀请初级和高级教师参加所有活动。讲习班、会议、小额试点赠款， 和合作计划将促进从一小群人管理网络的过渡， 活动的一个强大的领域的研究人员领导在这一领域的未来工作。活动结束后， 新兴领域将更有利于网络成员寻求资金，以支持网络在 未来将采用更传统的机制。

PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT The overall goal of this grant is to continue supporting the multidisciplinary Scientific Research Network on Decision Neuroscience and Aging. The integrative emerging area that this grant will support 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, collaboration and mentorship initiatives, and pilot grant competitions 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 and encouraging new collaborations. 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 and an outside mentorship program. Short, intensive workshops will focus on training researchers at all stages in the collection and analysis of various emerging behavioral (e.g., health-related, social, economic) 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, small pilot grants, and collaboration initiatives 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.