Advanced Multimodal Neuroimaging Training Grant

说明申请的广泛、长期目标和具体目标，并提及项目与健康的相关性(即与机构使命的相关性)。简明扼要地描述实现这些目标的研究设计和方法。描述你将用来实现这些目标的基本原理和技术。此外，用两三句简单明了的话来描述这项研究与公共卫生的相关性。如果申请得到资助，这一描述将成为公开信息。因此，不包括专有/机密信息。 为了实现这一目标，提出了一个要求严格的跨学科研究生培训计划，以及一个密集的短期研究教育计划。这项神经成像培训计划依赖于 哈佛大学心理学系、哈佛医学院神经科学项目、麻省理工学院脑与认知科学系和健康科学与技术项目的教职员工之间的跨学科合作，以及马萨诸塞州总医院的阿蒂努拉·A·马蒂诺斯中心或生物医学成像。这一培训计划联合了背景包括定量、工程、物理和化学科学以及生物医学和生物科学的学员，旨在培养新一代科学家，他们的基础广泛的研究生培训包括基础神经科学、活体神经成像的技术和分析方法，以及这些技术的应用，以了解神经科学中的关键问题。功能磁共振成像(FMRI)、脑磁图(MEG)、脑电(EEG)、 正电子发射断层扫描(PET)和近红外光谱分析(NIRS)已成为认知神经科学的核心工具。通过培训学生了解这些神经成像方法的基础和 有效地应用它们来解决神经科学的基本原理，我们的目标是用必要的工具和知识武装整个研究人员，以解决那些最紧迫的问题 现代神经科学。博士前培训计划的学生将从哈佛和麻省理工学院的系和由参与教师代表的项目中挑选出来，并将完成 他们所注册的特定计划的要求。此外，学生实习生将参加团队授课课程，参加由教员联合教授的研究研讨会，并参与实验室轮换，实践研究经验。这些要求的目标是传授既广泛又深刻的知识，并将为神经科学研究带来新的视角和新的方向，利用来自看似完全不同的学科的个人的集体专业知识。在整个培训过程中，学生将得到哈佛或麻省理工学院教职员工和马蒂诺斯中心的共同建议。短期研究教育计划将提供一个关键的共同点，为处于职业发展不同阶段的科学家提供外展教育机会。研究教育的核心部分将是与一名高级神经成像研究人员的指导，以及长期停留从事实践研究体验的机会。

State the application's broad, long-term objectives and specific aims, making reference to the health relatedness of the project (i.e., relevance to the mission of the agency). Describe concisely the research design and methods for achieving these goals. Describe the rationale and techniques you will useto pursue these goals. In addition, in two or three sentences,describe in plain, lay languagethe relevance of this researchto public health. If the application is funded, this description, as is, will become public information. Therefore, do not include proprietary/confidential information. A demanding program of interdisciplinary graduate training, together with an intensive short-term research education program, is proposed to meet this goal.This plan for Training in Neuroimaging rests on nterdisciplinary collaboration between faculty members in the Department of Psychology at Harvard Jniversity, the Program in Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School, the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the Health Sciences and Technology Program at MIT, and the Athinoula A. Martinos Center 'or Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital. This training program that unites trainees whose )ackgrounds include quantitative, engineering, physical and chemical sciences as well as biomedical and biological sciences aims to prepare a new generation of scientists whose broad-based graduate training comprises fundamental neuroscience, the technologies and analytic methods of in vivo neuroimaging, and the application of those technologies for understanding crucial questions in neuroscience. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), magnetoencephalography (MEG), electroencephalography (EEG), positron emission tomography (PET), and near-infrared spectrography (NIRS) have emerged as central tools n cognitive neuroscience. By training students to understand the bases of these neuroimaging methods and apply them effectively to address the fundamental principles of neuroscience, our goal is to arm an entire spectrum of researchers with the tools and knowledge necessaryto address those issues most pressing for modem neuroscience. Students in the pre-doctoral training program will be drawn from the Harvard and MIT departments and programs represented by the participating faculty, and will be expected to fulfill the requirements of the specific program in which they are enrolled. In addition, student trainees will take team- taught courses, take part in a research seminar jointly taught by faculty, and engage in laboratory rotations involving hands-on research experiences. The goal of these requirements is to impart knowledge that is at once both broad and deep,.and will engender new perspectives on and new directions for neuroscience research that play upon the collective expertise of individuals from seemingly disparate.disciplines. Throughout their training, students will be co-advised by faculty at Harvard or MIT and the Martinos Center. The short-term research education program will provide a key common ground to provide outreach educational opportunities for scientists at various stages of career development. Central to the research education component will be paired mentorship with a senior neuroimaging researcher, and opportunities for extended stays to engage in hands-on research experiences.