Course Development in Neurobiology of Disease at the University of Iowa

描述（由申请人提供）： 爱荷华州大学的神经科学研究生课程目前缺乏一门将神经生物学疾病机制与临床特征联系起来的课程，同时也强调当前和未来的研究领域。RFA的“疾病神经生物学课程开发”为我们爱荷华州提供了一个机会，以解决神经科学培训的这一急需的组成部分。时机是理想的发展这样一门课程在爱荷华州;神经科学教师，部门和学院管理人员都支持这一奋进，神经科学是一个关键的增长领域在爱荷华州。Paulson博士和Tranel博士是指导本课程开发和实施的两位神经科学家，他们为该项目带来了临床和科学专业知识的理想互补。主要目标是创建一个疾病的神经生物学课程，为培训神经科学家提供对神经系统疾病疾病机制的广泛的主题理解。在咨询委员会的帮助下，教师团队将开发一个学期的课程，教育学生神经系统和神经精神疾病的基本特征，并为未来的研究方向做好准备。该课程将按主题安排为五个主要的神经科学疾病组，并将整合到神经科学研究生所需的核心课程。爱荷华州超过35名神经科学教师、多种疾病的专家都对参加本课程表示了浓厚的兴趣。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The neuroscience graduate program at the University of Iowa currently lacks a course that links neurobiological disease mechanisms to clinical features while also emphasizing areas of current and future investigation. The RFA for "Course Development in the Neurobiology of Disease" provides us at Iowa with an opportunity to address this much-needed component of neuroscience training. The timing is ideal for the development of such a course at Iowa; the neuroscience faculty, and departmental and college administrators all support this endeavor, and neuroscience is a key growth area at Iowa. The two neuroscientists directing the development and implementation of this course, Drs. Paulson and Tranel, bring to the project an ideal, complementary blend of clinical and scientific expertise. The primary objective is to create a Neurobiology of Disease course that provides training neuroscientists with a broad, thematic understanding of disease mechanisms in nervous system disorders. With the aid of an Advisory Committee, the faculty team will develop a one-semester course that educates students in fundamental features of neurological and neuropsychiatric diseases and prepares them for future research directions. The course will be arranged thematically into five major neuroscience disease groups and will be integrated into the required core curriculum for neuroscience graduate students. More than 35 neuroscience faculty at Iowa, experts in a wide range of diseases, have expressed a strong interest in participating in this course.