PURDUE INTEGRATIVE NEUROSCIENCE PROGRAM

为了巩固和加强一项新的综合神经科学研究生培训计划，这项提议需要五年的支持。普渡大学的这个新项目是三年前开始的。它是高度一体化的，涉及来自5所学校10个系的28名教员培训人员。它提供了坚实的神经科学基础培训核心，并在三个广泛的主题领域提供了跨越分子、细胞和系统层面的更专业化的培训选择。这三个主题都提供与心理健康领域的计划和倡议相关的培训，分别是(1)分子信号，(2)发展和可塑性，(3)行为和认知神经科学。学生与个性化咨询委员会以及研究生培训委员会合作，以确保他们在综合神经科学的基础和原则方面获得坚实的基础，以及在综合专业方面进行连贯的培训。由此产生的课程提供了通常只有在较窄的课程中才能找到的重点和深度的培训，同时也实现了最佳跨学科课程的范围和广度。该项目的新颖特点将其与整个国内和国际神经科学事业联系在一起。每学期，除了普渡大学神经科学学院提供的广泛课程外，还提供一门由杰出的来访神经学家组成的特殊综合神经科学课程。还为学生前往主要培训地点获取专门技术技能提供津贴。总体结果是一个特别的新计划。它在内容上是综合的，在普渡大学的优势和国内和国际上最好的神经科学资源之间提供的互补性上也是如此。接受普渡综合神经科学跨学科培训的学生将在下个世纪为心理健康研究及其应用做出重大贡献。

To consolidate and augment a new graduate training program in Integrative Neuroscience, this proposal requests five years of support. This new program at Purdue University was initiated three years ago. It is highly integrative, involving 28 faculty trainers from 10 departments in 5 schools. It provides a solid core of training in the fundamentals of neuroscience as well as more specialized training options, spanning across molecular, cellular and systems levels, in three broad thematic areas. The three themes, each providing training relevant to programs and initiatives in mental health fields, are (1) Molecular Signaling, (2) Development and Plasticity, and (3) Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience. Students' work with individualized advisory committees as well as a Graduate Training Committee to assure that they receive strong grounding in fundamentals and principles of integrative neuroscience as well as coherent training in an integrative specialty. The resulting curriculum provides a focus and depth of training often found only in more narrow programs, while also achieving the scope and breadth of the best interdisciplinary programs. Novel features of this program interlink it with the entire national and international neuroscience enterprise. Each semester, in addition to the extensive curriculum offered by Purdue neuroscience faculty, a special Integrative Neuroscience course staffed by eminent visiting neuroscientists is offered. Stipends for students to travel to premier training sites to obtain skills in specialized techniques are also provided. The overall result is an exceptional new program. It is integrative both in its content and in the complementarity it provides between Purdue's strengths and the best neuroscience resources available nationally and internationally. Students trained in the interdisciplinary Purdue Integrative Neuroscience program will make substantial contributions to mental health research and its applications in the next century.