New Horizons in Human Brain Imaging: A Focus on Brain Networks and Connectivity

描述(由申请者提供)：在神经成像的背景下了解基本大脑连接的探索已经引起了国际上的兴趣--最明显的是来自太平洋地区的国家。根据这份R13提案(NIH PA-08-149)，我们寻求支持，以支付为期3天的北美和环太平洋地区领先研究人员的国际会议的部分费用，会议题为“人脑成像的新视野：对脑网络和连接的关注”。会议将包括对下一个神经成像科学时代重要的关键主题，并使用快速发展的方法测量和了解大脑功能和结构连接，讨论研究和临床动机。特别是，会议将特别侧重于可实现的手段，通过这些手段，来自这些国家的研究人员可以最大限度地合作努力，解决这一动态和多学科领域面临的科学和临床挑战。预计30位演讲者将深入了解大脑网络和连接的基础和临床神经科学。此外，将向每个参与国的学生颁发两至四个小额学生奖学金，根据参加的意愿、经济需要、会议是否适合他们的研究培训以及根据资深同事和导师的推荐信进行评判。共有20名学生将被授予奖学金。会议参与者将在会议期间享受正式的科学会议，有机会在非正式活动期间与受邀演讲者互动，并向会议组织者提供宝贵的经验反馈。这项R13会议的提议直接反映了NIH最近在人脑连接图谱方面的兴趣，它扩大跨学科边界参与的使命，它在促进国际合作方面的目标，以及科学知识、数据和资源的开放交流。 公共卫生相关性：使用神经成像测量的大脑连通性正在迅速成为研究的一个主要主题，这将为下一代神经科学研究大脑健康和疾病奠定基础。这种对了解基本大脑网络的兴趣存在于国际层面--尤其是来自环太平洋地区的研究人员。本次会议旨在聚集来自环太平洋国家的领先神经学家，分享想法、数据和潜在资源，以利用神经成像对大脑功能和结构连接进行表征、分析和建模。会议寻求在大脑网络和连接的背景下提供对人类大脑成像的未来的展望，这将对美国和国外的大脑研究、临床医学和公共健康产生直接影响。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The quest to understand fundamental brain connectivity in the context of neuroimaging has received international levels of interest - most notably from countries around the Pacific. Under this R13 proposal (NIH PA-08-149), we seek support to cover the partial costs of a 3-day international meeting of leading researchers from North America and Pacific Rim regions entitled "New Horizons in Human Brain Imaging: A Focus on Brain Networks and Connectivity". The meeting will be comprised of key themes important to the next era of neuroimaging science and address the research and clinical motivations for the research using rapidly evolving methods for measuring and understanding functional and structural brain connectivity. In particular, the meeting will focus specifically on attainable means by which investigators from these nations may maximize collaborative effort in addressing the scientific and clinical challenges facing this dynamic and multi-disciplinary field. Thirty speakers are expected to provide insight into the basic and clinical neuroscience of brain networks and connectivity. Additionally, two to four small studentships will be award to students in each participating country, adjudicated based on desire to attend, financial need, suitability of the meeting for their research training, and on the basis of letters of recommendation from senior colleagues and mentors. A total of twenty studentships will be awarded. Meeting participants will enjoy formal scientific sessions during the meeting, have the opportunity to interact with the invited speakers during informal functions, and provide valuable feedback on their experiences to meeting organizers. This R13 meeting proposal speaks directly to the NIH's recent interests in the mapping of human brain connectivity, its mission to broaden participation across disciplinary boundaries, its goals in promoting international collaborations, and the open exchange of scientific knowledge, data, and resources. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Brain connectivity as measured using neuroimaging is rapidly becoming a major theme for research that is forming the basis for the next era of neuroscience research into brain health and disease. This interest toward understanding fundamental brain networks exists at an international level - notably from researchers around the Pacific Rim. This meeting seeks to gather leading neuroscientists from Pacific Rim countries to share ideas, data, and potentially resources toward the characterization, analysis, and modeling of brain functional and structural connectivity using neuroimaging. The meeting seeks to provide a vision for the future of human brain imaging in the context of brain networks and connectivity that will have direct impact on brain research, clinical medicine, and public health in the US and abroad.