Training Program in Neuroscience

描述（由申请人提供）：西奈山的神经科学培训计划为一年级和二年级的博士生提供了由国内和国际公认的教师教授的令人兴奋的课程，以及建立在转化神经科学，基础神经生物学，精神病学和神经病学专业知识基础上的实验室经验，由于西奈山医院和西奈山伊坎医学院的临床和基础神经科学研究密切相关，所有这些都是彼此独特的“接口”。神经科学培训项目的核心是西奈山的神经科学博士学位，这是该学院的第二个博士学位授予项目，以及一支优秀的培训师资队伍，他们有一个共同的主题兴趣：研究特定神经回路的功能和可塑性，在发育过程中，在成人中，在老年，患病或退化的神经系统中。在T32培训计划的初始资助期内，随着弗里德曼脑研究所的成立和赫斯科学与医学中心的开放，研究空间和神经科学培训教员数量大幅扩大。西奈山的各种实验室机会充分利用了转化神经科学的优势，特别是在发育神经生物学、神经衰老和变性、神经精神疾病机制、认知神经科学、计算神经科学和神经成像、感觉信号转导、神经内分泌学以及突触和行为可塑性方面。神经系统在不同的模型系统中进行研究，从“简单”的无脊椎动物，如海蜗牛，果蝇，或

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Mount Sinai's Neuroscience Training Program offers Year 1 and Year 2 predoctoral students an exciting curriculum taught by a nationally and internationally recognized faculty, and a laboratory experience that builds on expertise in translational neuroscience, basic neurobiology, psychiatry and neurology, all uniquely 'interfaced' with one another due to close apposition of clinical and basic neuroscience research at Mount Sinai Hospital and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. At the heart of the Neuroscience Training Program are Mount Sinai's Neuroscience Ph.D., the school's second Ph.D. granting program, and a superb training faculty who share a common thematic interest: study of the function and plasticity of specific neural circuits, during development, in he adult, and in the aged, diseased or degenerating nervous system. During the initial funding period of this T32 training program, research space and Neuroscience training faculty number substantially expanded with the founding of the Friedman Brain Institute and opening of the Hess Center for Science and Medicine. Varied laboratory opportunities at Mount Sinai take advantage of strengths in translational neuroscience, notably in developmental neurobiology, neural aging and degeneration, mechanisms of neuropsychiatric disease, cognitive neuroscience, computational neuroscience and neuroimaging, sensory signal transduction, neuroendocrinology and synaptic and behavioral plasticity. The nervous system is studied in diverse model systems, from 'simple' invertebrates such as the sea snail Aplasia, the fruit fly, or the worm C. elegans, all the way to complex vertebrates including nonhuman primates and humans. Students will receive a strong foundation in basic neuroscience and the neurobiology of disease, in a collaborative environment that actively promotes multidisciplinary, integrative research. Using this interdisciplinary approach, the Neuroscience Training Program will provide students with the essential knowledge and experimental tools to initiate productive, independent careers in the laboratories of our training faculty.