Training and Dissemination

NCAN培训和传播的重点是使新的神经技术能够广泛用于重要的 目的并改进对科学家、工程师和临床医生的培训，以开发和使用它们。虽然很多人 令人兴奋的神经技术已经在实验室中被开发和验证，但很少被转化为临床 实践，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 生态系统要求：理解技术原理并熟练使用的人；获得 强大、兼容且受支持的硬件和软件；以及支持有效交互的机制 在参与的科学家、工程师和临床医生中。在过去的20年里，沃兹沃斯的员工创造了这样的 BCI2000的生态系统，这是一个促进神经技术研究和 发展。NCAN的培训和传播活动正在这一经验的基础上创造更多 为广泛的适应性神经技术提供全面的生态系统。 对科学家、工程师和临床医生进行自适应神经技术的理论和实践方面的培训 在授权期内，NCAN将：(A)通过纳入新的理论来更新和扩展其综合课程 对NCANfi第一批拨款期间设想的中枢神经系统可塑性的理解和设计的实用方面 和使用通过每个研发合作项目开发的神经技术；(B)设计和实施 以这一最新课程为基础的课程和讲习班，包括适应性综合短期课程 神经技术、ECoG和BCI2000研讨会，以及新的fi基于脑电的BCI和 脊柱ReflEX条件反射方法；(C)扩大本科生和研究生的校内培训方案； 以及(D)不断获得关于这些培训活动的反馈意见，并加以改进。 向科学家、工程师和临床医生传播自适应神经技术的知识和机会， NCAN将：(A)开发专题fic迷你课程，允许其他机构创建或补充其 用适应神经技术材料编写课程；(B)更新和扩大其传播渠道， 包括NCAN和BCI2000网站和通讯，NCAN在相关会议上的展品，以及NCAN的 BCI在线文章数据库；和(C)通过定期评估这些传播活动的efficacy 量化评估(例如，网站使用、研究和发表的临床研究)，并对其进行修改 这一反馈意见。 总而言之，NCAN将继续并加强培训和传播活动，以创建和维护 支持和促进自适应的广泛使用的人员、知识和技术的生态系统 科学家、工程师和临床医生为解决重要的科学和临床问题而开发的技术。

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.