Training and Dissemination

NCAN培训和传播的重点是使新的神经技术的广泛使用的重要 目的，并改善科学家，工程师和临床医生的培训，以开发和使用它们。虽然许多 令人兴奋的神经技术已经在实验室中开发和验证，很少有被转化为临床 这在很大程度上是由于缺乏适当的环境或生态系统。一种有效的神经技术 生态系统需要：了解技术原理并熟练使用技术的人;获得 可靠、兼容和受支持的硬件和软件;以及支持有效交互的机制 在科学家、工程师和临床医生中。在过去的20年里，沃兹沃斯的工作人员创造了这样的 BCI 2000的生态系统，这是一个促进神经技术研究的通用软件平台， 发展NCAN的培训和传播活动正在这一经验的基础上， 为广泛的自适应神经技术提供全面的生态系统。 培训科学家，工程师和临床医生在适应性神经技术的理论和实践，在未来 在赠款期间，NCAN将：（a）更新和扩大其综合课程，纳入新的理论知识， 了解在NCAN的第一个资助期和设计的实际方面设想的CNS可塑性 和使用通过每个TR&D的合作项目开发的神经技术;（B）设计和进行 课程和讲习班的基础上，这一更新的课程，包括全面的短期课程，适应 神经技术，ECoG和BCI 2000研讨会，以及基于EEG的BCI的新的五天重点课程， （c）扩大本科生和研究生校内培训方案; 以及（d）不断获得有关这些培训活动的反馈意见，并利用这些反馈意见加以改进。 向科学家、工程师和临床医生传播适应性神经技术的知识和获取途径， NCAN将：（a）开发特定主题的小型课程，使其他机构能够创建或补充其课程。 （B）更新和扩大其传播渠道， 包括NCAN和BCI 2000网站和通讯，NCAN在相关会议上的展览，以及NCAN的 在线BCI文章数据库;以及（c）通过定期评估这些传播活动的有效性 定量评估（例如，网站使用，研究和临床研究出版），并修改他们的回应 这个反馈。 总而言之，NCAN将继续并加强培训和传播活动， 一个由人、知识和技术组成的生态系统，能够促进适应性技术的广泛使用。 科学家，工程师和临床医生的技术，以解决重要的科学和临床问题。

NCAN Training & Dissemination focuses on enabling the widespread use of new neurotechnologies for important purposes and improving the training of scientists, engineers, and clinicians to develop and use them. While many exciting neurotechnologies have been developed and validated in the lab, few have been translated to clinical practice, largely due to the lack of an appropriate environment, or ecosystem. An effective neurotechnology ecosystem requires: people who understand the principles of the technology and are skilled in its use; access to robust, compatible, and supported hardware and software; and mechanisms that support effective interactions among the scientists, engineers, and clinicians involved. Over the past 20 years, Wadsworth staff created such an ecosystem for BCI2000, a general-purpose software platform that facilitates neurotechnology research and development. NCAN Training and Dissemination activities are building on this experience to create a much more comprehensive ecosystem for a wide range of adaptive neurotechnologies. To train scientists, engineers, and clinicians in the theory and practice of adaptive neurotechnologies in the next grant period, NCAN will: (a) update and expand its comprehensive curriculum by incorporating the new theoretical understanding about CNS plasticity conceived in the NCAN's first grant period and practical aspects of the design and use of the neurotechnologies developed through each TR&D's collaborative projects; (b) design and conduct courses and workshops based on this updated curriculum, including the comprehensive Short Course in Adaptive Neurotechnologies, ECoG and BCI2000 workshops, and new five-day Focus Courses in EEG-based BCIs and spinal reflex conditioning methodologies; (c) expand the undergraduate and graduate intramural training programs; and (d) obtain continual feedback on these training activities and use it to improve them. To disseminate knowledge of and access to adaptive neurotechnologies to scientists, engineers and clinicians, NCAN will: (a) develop topic-specific Mini-Courses that will allow other institutions to create or supplement their own curricula with material on adaptive neurotechnologies; (b) update and expand its dissemination channels, including the NCAN and BCI2000 websites and newsletters, NCAN exhibits at relevant meetings, and NCAN's online BCI article database; and (c) evaluate the efficacy of these dissemination activities through periodic quantitative assessments (e.g., website use, research and clinical studies published) and modify them in response to this feedback. In summary, NCAN will continue and enhance training and dissemination activities that create and maintain an ecosystem of people, knowledge, and technology that enables and promotes the widespread use of adaptive technologies by scientists, engineers, and clinicians to address important scientific and clinical problems.