Neurobiology of Disease Workshop

疾病神经生物学研讨会（NDW）为基础科学家和学员提供了对神经系统疾病的深入介绍。这是一个为期一天的研讨会，在神经科学学会（SfN）年会之前的星期五举行。研讨会的总体目标是向基础科学家介绍神经系统疾病的世界，期望无论他们对神经系统有什么兴趣或专业知识，他们都可能带来非凡的新问题，想法甚至解决该领域问题的方法。每个NDW的主题仅提前一年确定，这反映了神经科学研究的动态和快速发展状态。虽然具体主题每年都在变化，但研讨会的议程形式保持一致。研讨会的核心是从病人的陈述开始的。开始为期一天的NDW项目的病人陈述，在临床科室越来越不常见，当然是基础科学研讨会所特有的。这是一位经验丰富的临床医生在全体观众面前进行的现场采访。不仅患者出席，而且在适用的情况下，患者的家庭成员也参加了研讨会。通常，患者家属会被要求描述这种疾病是如何影响他们自己的生活的，以帮助正在接受培训的神经科学家看到神经系统疾病对人类的影响。患者陈述之后是多个讲座，涵盖必要的临床和基础科学信息，以了解疾病或障碍。该系列讲座包括神经病理学（如相关），所涉及系统的解剖，神经化学和生理相关性，当前治疗方法和其他相关信息。根据他们在该领域的专业知识挑选的教员将介绍核心信息，大约持续三到四个小时。如上所述，在研讨会日程安排的早期，一位资深临床医生会介绍一位患者，并为听众分配时间向患者或临床医生提问。在病人和核心讲座介绍之后，研讨会参与者组成分组讨论小组，每个小组由两名教师领导，进行一段时间的扩展讨论。每个讨论组的总时间为1.5小时，这些会议旨在激发参与者对疾病的思考和猜测，并告知他们已经进行的研究。

The Neurobiology of Disease Workshop (NDW) provides basic scientists and trainees with an in-depth introduction to neurological disorders. It is organized as a day-long workshop held the Friday before the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Annual Meeting. The overall goal of the Workshop is to introduce the world of neurological disease to the basic scientist, with the expectation that whatever their interest or expertise in the nervous system, they may bring extraordinary new questions, ideas and even solutions to problems in the field. Reflecting the dynamic and rapidly advancing state of neuroscience research, the topic of each NDW is identified only one year in advance. Although the specific topics change each year, the Workshop’s agenda format remains consistent. The core of the Workshop begins with a patient presentation. Growing less common in clinical departments, and certainly unique to a basic science workshop, is the patient presentation that begins the day-long NDW program. This is a live interview performed by an experienced clinician in front of the entire audience. Not only are patients presented, but in applicable cases, family members of the patient also attend the Workshop. Often the family members are asked to describe how the disease has affected their own lives, helping neuroscientists in training see the human side of diseases of the nervous system. The patient presentation is followed by multiple lectures that cover the essential clinical and basic science information necessary to understand the disease or disorder. The set of lectures includes neuropathology (where relevant), the anatomy of the systems involved, neurochemical and physiological correlates, current treatments, and other related information. The faculty members, chosen for their expertise in the field, present the core information, which lasts approximately three to four hours. As detailed above, a patient is presented by a senior clinician early in the Workshop schedule, and time is allotted for the audience to ask questions of the patient or the clinician. Following the patient and core lecture presentations, Workshop participants form breakout groups, each led by a team of two faculty members, for a period of extended discussions. The total time for each discussion group is 1.5 hours and these sessions are designed to stimulate participant thinking and speculation about the disease and to inform them of the research already underway.