Predoctoral Training Program in Behavioral Brain Research

描述（由申请人提供）：提议的博士前培训计划的目标是培养下一代行为科学研究人员，在对传统行为研究领域扩展的大脑结构和功能的理解的基础上，熟练地将神经科学的观点和方法融入他们的研究计划。行为脑研究训练计划（T32）的具体目标是通过前两年的课程和实验室研究经验，为致力于行为和脑科学界面研究的研究生提供神经科学方法和观点的基础训练。此外，我们将通过课程和独立的研究项目，为学员提供行为科学研究方面的深度培训。最后，我们的目标是通过共同指导、实验室轮岗经验和项目论坛，促进行为和脑科学研究的曝光，不断注入跨领域的观点。关注行为和大脑之间界面的基础研究对于理解横跨NIH研究所的大量人类健康问题的机制和治疗至关重要。由于其广泛的使命，NIGMS是一个培训项目的天然家园，旨在跨越行为科学中传统上分离的调查线，将行为和生物医学方法联系起来。通过将大脑作为一个共同的基础，可以最有效地整合行为研究的不同子领域的重大进展，从而将一个领域的进展利用到其他研究领域。本培训计划将集中于三个主要的研究主题来完成整合：表现与传播；评价与控制；学习、记忆和可塑性。该培训项目将由匹兹堡大学和卡内基梅隆大学共同协调。两所大学毗邻，在行为研究和神经科学方面都有卓越的成就，在研究生培训方面有着悠久的合作历史，可以有效地结合起来，深化下一代行为科学学生的神经科学培训，拓宽神经科学整合的行为科学领域。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of the proposed predoctoral training program is to train the next generation of behavioral science researchers to skillfully incorporate neuroscience perspectives and methods into their programs of research, based on an understanding of brain structure and function that extends across traditional areas of behavioral research. The Behavioral Brain Research Training Program (T32) has the specific aim of providing graduate students committed to research at the interface of the behavioral and brain sciences with foundational training in neuroscience methods and perspectives, through coursework and laboratory-based research experiences in their first two years. Moreover, we will provide trainees with deep training in behavioral science research, via courses and independent programs of research. Finally, we aim for continued infusion of cross-cutting perspectives, through co-mentoring, laboratory rotation experiences, and program forums that foster exposure to behavioral and brain science research. Basic research focused on the interface between behavior and the brain is crucial for understanding the mechanisms and treatment of a large number of human health issues that cut across NIH Institutes. With its broad mission, NIGMS is the natural home of a training program that aims to bridge behavioral and biomedical approaches across traditionally separate lines of inquiry in the behavioral sciences. By focusing upon the brain as a common substrate, significant progress in different subfields of behavioral research can be most effectively integrated, thus leveraging advances in one area into other domains of study. This training program will focus on three major research themes to accomplish integration: Representation and Communication; Evaluation and Control; Learning, Memory, and Plasticity. The training program will be jointly coordinated by the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. Contiguous to one another and possessing excellence in both behavioral research and neuroscience, the institutions share a long history of collegiality and cooperation in graduate training that can be effectively combined to deepen the neuroscience training of the next generation of behavioral science students and to broaden the behavioral science fields within which neuroscience is integrated.