Short Course in Adaptive Neurotechnologies

 描述（由申请人提供）：神经系统疾病影响美国和全世界数百万人。最近的进展使适应性神经技术的发展成为可能，这些强大的新技术与神经系统相互作用，以促进功能恢复。这些技术本质上是多学科的：它们涉及神经科学，生物医学工程，电气和计算机科学，信号处理以及临床，伦理和商业领域。很少有人能在所有这些领域有效地发挥作用。因此，这些技术中只有少数得到充分开发并转化为临床实践，而广泛使用的更少。 这个短期课程的目标是通过提供一组新的领导者来解决这个问题，这些领导者具有计划，开发和实施下一代自适应神经技术所需的广泛的多学科知识。新成立的国家适应性神经技术中心的沃兹沃斯科学家和工程师建议与额外的外部教师一起创建和开展为期四周的适应性神经技术理论和实践综合短期课程。本课程有三个目标。 目标1将提供对理解和实施适应性神经技术至关重要的五个领域的讲座：基础神经科学（重点放在最相关的区域和职能）;工程（技术如何监测神经系统并与之互动）;当前的适应性神经技术（能力、局限性、未来前景）;临床翻译（目标人群、试验设计）;以及商业、监管、伦理和其他对这些技术的传播和使用很重要的因素。目标2将补充目标1的讲座与动手训练练习，其中参与者使用讲座中传达的原则和软件平台BCI 2000来设计和实现三个代表性的自适应神经技术。目标3将通过在线提供课程大纲和视频以及为培训练习出版视频期刊文章，向更大的研究和开发界传播课程。它还将收集学员和其他人的正式和非正式反馈意见，以指导改进培训班。 这种独特的多学科课程将使参与者成为开发，评估和使用自适应神经技术的独立和积极的代理人，并将其他人带入这个快速增长的领域。为加强课程的长远影响， 一个精心挑选的过程将招募24名参与者谁是或可能成为领导人， 实验室，临床或商业研究和开发计划在这个领域。总之，这个密集的短期课程将使下一代科学家，工程师和临床医生能够将有前途的实验室发展和概念转化为现实世界的系统，方法和应用程序，以解决重要的科学和临床问题。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Neurological disorders affect many millions of people in the United States and throughout the world. Recent advances enable the development of adaptive neurotechnologies, powerful new technologies that interact with the nervous system to promote functional recovery. These technologies are inherently multidisciplinary: they involve neuroscience, biomedical engineering, electrical and computer science, signal processing, and clinical, ethical, and commercial domains. Very few people can function effectively across all these fields. As a result, only a few of these technologies have been fully developed and translated into clinical practice, and still fewer are widely used. The goal of this Short Course s to address this problem by providing a new group of leaders with the broad multidisciplinary knowledge needed to plan, develop, and implement the next generation of adaptive neurotechnologies. The Wadsworth scientists and engineers of the newly established National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies propose to create and conduct, together with additional external faculty, a comprehensive four- week Short Course in the theory and practice of adaptive neurotechnologies. This Course has three aims. Aim 1 will provide lectures in the five areas critical to understanding and implementing adaptive neurotechnologies: basic neuroscience (with emphasis on the most relevant regions and functions); engineering (how technologies monitor the nervous system and interact with it); current adaptive neurotechnologies (capabilities, limitations, future prospects); clinical translation (target populations, trial design); and commercial, regulatory, ethical, and other factors important to dissemination and use of these technologies. Aim 2 will complement the lectures of Aim 1 with hands-on Training Exercises in which participants use the principles conveyed in the lectures and the software platform BCI2000 to design and implement three representative adaptive neurotechnologies. Aim 3 will disseminate the curriculum to the larger research and development community by providing lecture syllabi and videos online and publishing video journal articles for the Training Exercises. It will also gather formal and informal feedback from participants and others to guide improvements in the Course. This uniquely focused multidisciplinary curriculum will enable the participants to become independent and active agents in developing, evaluating, and using adaptive neurotechnologies, and in bringing others into this rapidly growing field. To enhance the long-term impact of the Course, wide publicity and a careful selection process will recruit 24 participants who are or are likely to become leaders of laboratory, clinical, or commercial research and development programs in this field. In summary, this intensive Short Course will empower the next generation of scientists, engineers, and clinicians to transform promising laboratory developments and concepts into real-world systems, methods, and applications that address important scientific and clinical problems.