Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience

描述（由申请人提供）：22年来，认知神经科学暑期研究所汇集了认知神经科学的领导者和有前途的研究生，博士后研究人员和年轻的教授/科学家，进行为期两周的密集讲座和实验室课程，旨在研究该学科的前沿课题。这项提案寻求五年的资金，以继续该方案。暑期研究所的重点是跟上该领域的最新进展，并使其参与者接触最新的快速新兴的方法和发现。通过讲座，辩论，研究所与会者之间的密切互动和实验室演示相结合，使用先进的技术，如功能性神经成像，经颅磁刺激和事件相关电位，为参与者提供了一个激烈和丰富的接触广泛的技术和方法平分所有领域的思想和大脑。暑期研究所的强烈的跨学科性质是其最显著的特点和宝贵的资产。该研究所的未来5年将继续其成功的传统，同时也提供创新，以显着扩大和加强该计划。认知神经科学暑期研究所为全国年轻科学家提供独特的培训，促进跨学科的观点和合作，并鼓励知名科学领袖和年轻、有前途的研究人员之间的跨学科交流，为该领域提供重要服务。该研究所直接促进该领域的进步，呼吁关注和推进与NIH在基础和转化研究和培训方面的使命相关的当前发现前沿问题的知识。 公共卫生相关性：该项目将提供认知神经科学的原则、理论和方法方面的强化培训，这些原则、理论和方法既适用于健康的个人，也适用于从婴儿到老年患有精神和大脑疾病的个人。这种强化的培训将使科学家在理解正常大脑的运作和理解各种精神和神经疾病方面取得更快的进展，这将最终导致改善对这些疾病的诊断，以及改善对新治疗方法的评估。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): For 22 years, the Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience has brought together leaders in Cognitive Neuroscience and promising graduate students, post-doctoral researchers and young professors/scientists for an intensive, two-week lecture and laboratory course aimed at topics on the cutting-edge of the discipline. This proposal seeks five years of funding for the program's continuation. The Summer Institute focuses on staying up-to-date with the field's latest advancements and exposes its participants to the latest rapidly emerging methods and discoveries. Through a combination of lectures, debates, close interaction among Institute attendees, and laboratory demonstrations, using advanced techniques such as functional neuroimaging, transcranial magnetic stimulation, and event-related potentials, participants are provided with an intense and rich exposure to a broad array of techniques and approaches bisecting all fields bearing on the mind and brain. The intensely interdisciplinary nature of the Summer Institute is its most defining feature and valuable asset. The next 5 years of the Institute will continue its successful traditions, while also providing innovations to significantly augment and enhance the program. The Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience provides an essential service to the field by providing the nation's young scientists with unique training that fosters interdisciplinary perspective and collaboration, and by encouraging cross-disciplinary exchange between established scientific leaders and young, promising researchers. The Institute contributes directly to the advancement of the field by calling attention to and advancing knowledge of issues at the frontiers of current discovery that are relevant to the mission of the NIH in basic and translational research and training. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This project will provide intensive training in the principles, theories and methods of cognitive neuroscience that are relevant to both healthy individuals and individuals suffering from disorders of the mind and brain, from infancy through old age. This enhanced training will allow scientists to make more rapid progress in understanding the operation of the normal brain and in understanding a variety of mental and neural disorders, which will ultimately lead to improved diagnosis of these disorders, as well as improved assessments of new treatments.