Multidisciplinary Training in Development and Learning

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一个独特且非常有价值的跨学科培训项目，由两所实力雄厚的机构（康奈尔大学和威尔康奈尔医学院）提供，拥有技术精湛的多产教师，专注于复杂和科学意义重大的公共卫生问题。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这一新兴学科的个人。学生们将在伊萨卡校区开始他们的基础培训，然后在威尔康奈尔继续进行联合课程、夏季轮岗、导师指导、两次年度会议和视频电话会议研讨会，将他们的研究生经历整合到整个培训过程中。培训将向研究生、医科学生、本科生、住院医生和博士后开放，并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的基因组学和转基因方法。论文将由每个校区的教师共同指导，并在第二年结束时由学生确定目标。这些受训者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，从而将他们的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、阅读障碍和由环境和遗传因素引起的学习障碍。在这个项目中训练的学生将使用最新的成像和基因组技术。因此，他们将同时拥有最好的基础和临床研究的训练和工具。

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.