The Simian Collective Conference

项目摘要。 本申请是一项资金请求，以支持名为“Simian Collective”的会议，该会议强调 美国的非人类灵长类神经科学研究，其作为人类转化模型的独特作用 神经精神疾病，以及如何寻求建立重要的社区努力来应对关键挑战 面向21世纪的领域。这次会议的组织战略是为了强调最大限度地发挥影响力 现代灵长类神经科学研究需要科学、伦理、 教育和宣传。由于灵长类动物大脑具有共同的功能组织，我们的猿类表亲 是阐明人类大脑在健康和疾病方面功能的许多方面的独特而强大的模型。这个 尖端研究必须继续发展并获得新的投资才能繁荣。会议还将 强调使用灵长类动物模型的系统发育优势，该模型具有许多独特的神经和功能 人类的认知特征，对于调查研究来说，还必须通过关键的因素来平衡 由于这些相似之处，不可避免地会出现神经伦理方面的考虑。此外，猿猴 集体还将强调该领域有责任教育我们的科学同事和广大民众 向人们宣传灵长类动物研究的独特重要性并宣传其意义。该计划 会议的目的是强调这些核心原则之间的互补关系，以及 建立社区倡议，在未来几年建立和促进灵长类动物神经科学研究。

Project Summary. This application is a request for funds to support a conference entitled the ‘Simian Collective’ that highlights nonhuman primate neuroscience research in the United States, its unique role as a translational model of human neuropsychiatric disorders, and how it seeks to build crucial community effort to address the key challenges facing the field in the 21st Century. The conference is strategically organized to stress that maximizing the impact of primate neuroscience research in the modern era necessitates complementary goals of Science, Ethics, Education and Advocacy. Owing to the shared functional organization of the primate brain, our simian cousins are uniquely powerful models to elucidate many facets of human brain function in both health and disease. This cutting-edge research must continue to grow and receive renewed investments to prosper. The meeting will also emphasize that the phylogenetic advantages of using a primate model, which shares many unique neural and cognitive characteristics with humans, for investigative research must also be balanced by the crucial neuroethical considerations that inevitably emerge because of these similarities. Furthermore, the Simian Collective will also emphasize the responsibility of the field to educate our scientific colleagues and the general population about the unique importance of primate research and to advocate for its significance. The program of the meeting has been designed to emphasize the complementary relationship between these core tenets, and to build a community initiative to build and promote primate neuroscience research in the coming years.