Core D: Behavioral Phenotyping Core

行为表型核心(核心D)旨在支持三个总体目标：支持和 在临床人群中推广创新和可复制的行为表型数据(目标1) 和IDD啮齿动物模型(目标2)；并促进将人和动物结合在一起的翻译研究 数据方法(目标3)。此核心以前支持的迭代在以下方面具有很高的生成性 助学金提交和稿件支持。新设计核心的指导性主题重点支持 强调“非传统”是为了实现国际发展中心在纳入非传统文化方面的首要目标 研究人员、非传统人群和非传统方法深入核心的方方面面。《核心》 将通过提供六大服务来实现这些目标：(I)咨询。三位联席导演(彼得斯， 哈里森，华莱士)在人类和动物表型方面拥有互补的专业知识，包括特定的 有项目设计和分析方法的经验。咨询服务将用于支持严格的 由IDD研究人员进行实验设计，重要的是，支持希望开发 与IDD相关的项目，尽管缺乏以前的经验(非传统研究人员)。咨询服务 得到对核心用户的全面(Ii)培训的支持。培训包括以下方面的实践支持 设备使用(动物和人体研究)和临床评估培训。核心的一个新焦点是 支持使用可穿戴设备和使用APP进行居家行为观察，以提供 非传统人口参与研究的机会。因此，培训还将扩展到 家庭测试的非科学家照顾者。核心项目在前几个资助期取得成功的关键是 提供(Iii)使用设备和设施的能力。人类最先进的设施和设备 动物实验将继续支持IDD研究人员使用折扣费的服务费 基础。(4)由受训人员进行的人类和动物试验现已提供全面的表型分析服务 研究技术人员。这项服务将允许非传统研究人员进行与缺碘相关的研究 无论是否有与IDD相关的经验，增加检测能力，特别是对于较小的实验室，以及 支持实验的严格性。核心将继续提供(V)科学仪器制造服务 用于人类和动物项目的专用设备。最终服务(Vi)数据集成和 概念开发是对基础科学研究人员咨询服务的补充 希望将他们的工作扩展到人类临床人群以及面向临床的研究人员 希望扩展到动物模型。这种真正的翻译服务将支持类似的方法和模型 跨物种使用或调整，以直接衡量表型相关的结果，包括 行为和生理措施，因此概括了IDDRC的首要目标是加速 通过跨学科方法在IDD研究中的发现。

The Behavioral Phenotyping Core (Core D) is designed to support three overarching aims: To support and promote innovative and replicable behavioral phenotyping data in clinical populations people with IDD (Aim 1) and in rodent models of IDD (Aim 2); and to facilitate translational research incorporating human and animal data approaches (Aim 3). Previously supported iterations of this Core have been highly generative in terms of grant submission and manuscript support. The guiding thematic focus of the newly designed Core supports the “non-traditional” emphasis articulated for the overarching goals of the IDDRC in incorporating non-traditional researchers, non-traditional populations, and non-traditional approaches into every facet of the core. The Core will accomplish these goals by providing six major services: (i) Consultation. The three Co-Directors (Peters, Harrison, Wallace) have complementary expertise in human and animal phenotyping including specific experience with project design and analysis approaches. Consultation services will serve to support rigorous experimental design by IDD researchers and, importantly, support non-IDD researchers who wish to develop IDD-relevant projects despite lack of previous experience (non-traditional researchers). Consultation services are supported by comprehensive (ii) training for Core users. Training includes hands-on support for equipment use (animal and human research) and clinical assessment training. A new focus of the Core is to support the use of wearable devices and the use of apps for in-home behavioral observation in order to provide the opportunity for non-traditional populations to participate in research. Training will therefore also extend to non-scientist care-givers for in-home testing. Key to the Core’s success in prior funding periods has been the ability to provide (iii) access to equipment and facilities. State-of-the-art facilities and equipment for human and animal testing will continue to be supported for IDD researchers to use on a discounted fee-for-service basis. (iv) Full-service phenotyping is now offered for both human and animal testing conducted by trained research technicians. This service will permit non-traditional researchers to perform IDD-related research regardless of IDD-related experience, increase testing throughput, particularly for smaller laboratories, and support experimental rigor. The Core will continue to offer (v) scientific Instrumentation fabrication services for specialized equipment for human and animal projects. The final service (vi) data integration and conceptual development is designed as a complement to consultation service for basic science investigators who wish expand their work into human clinical populations, as well as for clinically-oriented investigators wishing to expand into animal models. This truly translational service will enable similar methods and models to be utilized or adapted across species to directly measure phenotypically relevant outcomes including behavioral and physiological measures, therefore encapsulating the IDDRC’s overarching goal to accelerate discovery in IDD research through trans-disciplinary approaches.