ADDICTION: HIJACKING THE BRAIN

描述：(申请人摘要) 华盛顿大学、团体健康合作社、太平洋科学中心、 华盛顿生物医学研究协会将显著 加强他们现有的科学教育合作伙伴关系，以提供有吸引力的 毒品教育项目，“上瘾：劫持大脑”(AH Brain)。这个 项目增强包括新的地理服务领域，扩展到 爱达荷州和蒙大拿州；新的目标专业观众；新的展品 展示区和扩大的网络展示。新的受众将通过以下方式获得 为法官、缉毒局官员、法院官员、律师、 化学依赖咨询师和健康专业人员。在团结科学家方面 与这些新的受众一起研究成瘾的神经生物学，AH Brain 寻求扩大已经卓有成效的药物成瘾科学教育 以前由NIDA资助的合作伙伴关系。阿大脑寻求：1)增加公众 关于药物成瘾的神经生物学知识和KEY程序 受众；2)提高对药物滥用的价值和过程的认识 研究，包括在研究中使用动物；以及3)增加 学生对药物滥用研究相关职业的兴趣。啊大脑的 计划组成部分将包括：一个互动的移动科学计划， 去学校和社区活动，社区工作队，迷你医学院 关于普通公众成瘾的神经生物学，为 专业团体、演讲局和学生比赛以及 基于Web的信息。将进行形成性和终结性评估 以评估AH Brain在实现其目标方面的成功。

DESCRIPTION: (Applicant's Abstract) The University of Washington, Group Health Cooperative, Pacific Science Center, and the Washington Association for Biomedical Research will significantly enhance their existing science education partnership to deliver an engaging drug education project, "Addiction: Hijacking the Brain" (AH Brain). The project enhancements include new geographic service areas with expansion into Idaho and Montana; new target professional audiences; new exhibits a virtual exhibit area and expanded web presence. The new audiences will be reached with professional workshops for judges, DEA officers, court officials, attorneys, chemical dependency counselors and health professionals. In uniting scientists researching the neurobiology of addiction with these new audiences, AH Brain seeks to expand the already effective Drug Addiction Science Education Partnership previously funded by NIDA. AH Brain seeks to: 1) increase public knowledge about the neurobiology of drug addiction with programs for key audiences; 2) increase appreciation for the value and processes of drug abuse research, including the use of animals in research; and 3) increase the interest of students in careers related to drug abuse research. AH Brain's program components will include: an interactive mobile science program that goes to schools and community events, community task forces, a Mini Med School on the neurobiology of addiction for the general public, a workshop for professional groups, a speaker's bureau and a student competition as well as web-based information. A formative and summative evaluation will be conducted to assess AH Brain's success in reaching its objectives.