Training in Functional Neuroimaging

描述（由申请人提供）：十年前，在功能磁共振成像（fMRI）的发展以及先前开发的成像技术和专业知识的推动下，功能神经成像领域开始了前所未有的增长时期。从那时起，参与神经成像的机构数量迅速增长，随着基础科学和最近的临床实践中越来越复杂的应用的发展，这种扩张今天仍在继续。尽管有这种特殊的增长，但在功能成像的技术、应用和神经科学方面受过良好训练的研究人员仍然短缺。建议的功能性神经影像学培训计划旨在通过提供多学科强化教学计划来解决这一短缺，重点是神经影像学的理论和实践，成像信号和神经功能的生理基础，神经影像学研究的设计和实施，随后的分析，显示和解释神经影像学数据，并将这些技术应用于基础和临床神经科学的基本问题。该计划的申请人预计具有从强烈的MR生物物理学到纯粹的神经科学的科学兴趣。培训计划的设计也满足了学员在职业发展的两个不同层次的需求。对于博士前受训者，该项目旨在灌输对神经成像基本原理和实践的广泛理解，并教授这些原理在成像相关研究中的应用。相比之下，博士后培训生的计划假设学生已经获得了希望与神经影像学相结合的领域的研究专业知识。在后一种情况下，目标是为受训者提供必要的神经成像工具和专业知识，以启动一个独特的、长期的研究项目，其中包括强大的神经成像组件。学生的培训将由一个独特的多学科团队进行，该团队的教师导师代表着从MR生物物理学到认知神经科学和临床实践的研究兴趣。通过教学作业、研究项目、研讨会、国内和国际演讲以及个人指导的综合课程，学生将为神经影像学的职业生涯和领导角色做好准备。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Ten years ago, the field of functional neuroimaging began a period of unprecedented growth spurred by the development of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in concert with previously developed imaging techniques and expertise. Since that time, the number of institutions involved in neuroimaging has grown apace and that expansion continues today as increasingly sophisticated applications develop in basic science and, more recently, in clinical practice. Despite this exceptional growth, there has been a shortage of researchers who are well trained in the technology, application and neuroscience of functional imaging. The proposed training program in functional neuroimaging is designed to address this shortage by offering a multidisciplinary program of intensive instruction with an emphasis on the theory and practice of neuroimaging, the physiological basis of imaging signals and neural function, the design and implementation of neuroimaging studies, the subsequent analysis, display and interpretation of neuroimaging data and the application of these techniques to fundamental problems of basic and clinical neuroscience. Applicants to the program are anticipated to have scientific interests ranging from strongly MR biophysics to purely neuroscience. The training program is also designed to meet the needs of trainees at two different levels of career development. For predoctoral trainees, the program seeks to instill a broad understanding of the fundamental principles and practice of neuroimaging and to teach the application of those principles to imaging-related research. In contrast, the program for post-doctoral trainees assumes that the student already has attained expertise in research within a field that the trainee wishes to combine with neuroimaging. The goal in the latter case, is to provide the trainee with the necessary neuroimaging tools and expertise to initiate a unique, long-term program of research incorporating a strong neuroimaging component. The training of students will be undertaken by a unique multidisciplinary team of faculty mentors representing research interests ranging from MR biophysics to cognitive neuroscience and clinical practice. Through an integrated curriculum of didactic course work, research projects, seminars, national and international presentations as well as personal mentoring students will emerge prepared for a career and leadership role in neuroimaging.