Training Program in the Neurobiology of Cognition and Cognitive Disorders

描述（由申请人提供）：在过去的15年里，对认知神经生物学的兴趣激增，对训练有素的认知神经生物学家产生了相应的需求，此外，对基础科学培训的学生的需求也很高，他们对将基础科学进展转化为患者治疗和治愈的兴趣和专业知识。为了满足这一需求，我们建议在伯明翰的亚拉巴马大学（UAB）开发一个为期四年的认知和认知障碍神经生物学培训项目。UAB是理想的准备提供这种新型的培训计划。在过去的十年中，UAB对神经科学研究和培训做出了重大的财政，基础设施和学术承诺，包括招募新的神经科学杰出的椅子和教师，建立麦克奈特脑研究所，以及新的UAB综合神经科学中心，神经胶质生物学医学，神经变性和实验治疗学，功能性神经成像。拟议的培训计划将在神经生物学系设有行政基地，包括来自UAB医学和视光学学院的六个基础科学和六个临床部门的42名培训教师。该计划的目标是培养神经生物学研究的下一代领导者和思想家，他们在分子，细胞和认知神经科学方面具有坚实的基础，接触临床研究中的当前概念，重视将基础研究转化为认知障碍治疗进展的重要性，并准备使用多学科和创新的研究方法来了解认知和认知障碍。为了实现这一目标，我们建议汇集一组优秀的UAB教师在认知和认知障碍工作，并允许他们教一个专门的课程，包括cqursework在分子，细胞，发展，综合，医学和认知神经科学和神经系统疾病。除了这个独特的课程，培训计划的具体“增值”组件是在以患者为导向的研究，双基础科学/临床科学导师和独特的课外活动的特殊翻译/临床培训经验。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): An explosion of interest in cognitive neurobiology over the last 15 years has produced a corresponding demand for highly trained cognitive neurobiologists, and in addition a high demand for students trained in basic science with an interest and expertise in translating basic science advances into patient treatments and cures. In response to this demand, we propose to develop a four-year Training Program in the Neurobiology of Cognition and Cognitive Disorders at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). UAB is ideally poised to provide this novel type of Training Program. In the past decade UAB has made major financial, infrastructural and scholarly commitments to neuroscience research and training, including the recruitment of new outstanding chairs and faculty in neuroscience and the establishment of the McKnight Brain Institute, and new UAB Centers in Comprehensive Neuroscience, Glial Biology in Medicine, Neurodegeneration and Experimental Therapeutics, and Functional Neuroimaging. The proposed Training Program will have its administrative base in the Department of Neurobiology and include 42 training faculty from six basic science and six clinical departments in the UAB Schools of Medicine and Optometry. The goal of the Program is to train the next generation of leaders and thinkers in neurobiology research who have a solid foundation in molecular, cellular, and cognitive neuroscience, have exposure to current concepts in clinical research, value the importance of translating basic research into advancements in the treatment of cognitive disorders, and are prepared to use multidisciplinary and innovative research approaches to understand cognition and cognitive disorders. To achieve this goal, we propose to bring together a group of outstanding UAB faculty members working in cognition and cognitive disorders and allow them to teach a specialized curriculum including cqursework in molecular, cellular, developmental, integrative, medical, and cognitive neuroscience and diseases of the nervous system. In addition to this unique coursework, the specific "value added" components of the Training Program are a special translational/clinical training experience in patient-oriented research, dual basic science/clinical science mentorship and distinct extracurricular activities.