Neurobiology of Disease Workshop

疾病神经生物学研讨会（NDW）为基础科学家和学员提供深入介绍神经系统疾病。它是在神经科学学会（SfN）年会之前的星期五举行的为期一天的研讨会。研讨会的总体目标是向基础科学家介绍神经疾病的世界，期望无论他们对神经系统的兴趣或专业知识如何，他们都可能带来非凡的新问题，想法甚至解决该领域问题的解决方案。反映了神经科学研究的动态和快速发展状态，每个NDW的主题仅提前一年确定。虽然具体议题每年都有变化，但讲习班的议程格式保持一致。研讨会的核心是从病人的陈述开始。在临床部门越来越不常见，当然是独特的基础科学研讨会，是病人介绍，开始为期一天的NDW计划。这是一个由经验丰富的临床医生在所有观众面前进行的现场采访。不仅是病人，但在适用的情况下，病人的家属也参加了讲习班。通常，家庭成员被要求描述疾病如何影响他们自己的生活，帮助神经科学家在培训中看到神经系统疾病的人类方面。患者介绍之后是多个讲座，涵盖了解疾病或病症所需的基本临床和基础科学信息。这套讲座包括神经病理学（在相关的地方），所涉及的系统的解剖，神经化学和生理学相关，目前的治疗，和其他相关信息。教师，选择他们在该领域的专业知识，提出的核心信息，持续约三到四个小时。如上所述，在研讨会日程安排的早期，由高级临床医生介绍患者，并且为观众分配时间以向患者或临床医生提问。在耐心和核心演讲之后，研讨会的参与者组成分组，每个分组由两名教师组成的团队领导，进行一段时间的长时间讨论。每个讨论小组的总时间为1.5小时，这些会议旨在激发参与者对疾病的思考和猜测，并告知他们已经进行的研究。

The Neurobiology of Disease Workshop (NDW) provides basic scientists and trainees with an in-depth introduction to neurological disorders. It is organized as a day-long workshop held the Friday before the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Annual Meeting. The overall goal of the Workshop is to introduce the world of neurological disease to the basic scientist, with the expectation that whatever their interest or expertise in the nervous system, they may bring extraordinary new questions, ideas and even solutions to problems in the field. Reflecting the dynamic and rapidly advancing state of neuroscience research, the topic of each NDW is identified only one year in advance. Although the specific topics change each year, the Workshop’s agenda format remains consistent. The core of the Workshop begins with a patient presentation. Growing less common in clinical departments, and certainly unique to a basic science workshop, is the patient presentation that begins the day-long NDW program. This is a live interview performed by an experienced clinician in front of the entire audience. Not only are patients presented, but in applicable cases, family members of the patient also attend the Workshop. Often the family members are asked to describe how the disease has affected their own lives, helping neuroscientists in training see the human side of diseases of the nervous system. The patient presentation is followed by multiple lectures that cover the essential clinical and basic science information necessary to understand the disease or disorder. The set of lectures includes neuropathology (where relevant), the anatomy of the systems involved, neurochemical and physiological correlates, current treatments, and other related information. The faculty members, chosen for their expertise in the field, present the core information, which lasts approximately three to four hours. As detailed above, a patient is presented by a senior clinician early in the Workshop schedule, and time is allotted for the audience to ask questions of the patient or the clinician. Following the patient and core lecture presentations, Workshop participants form breakout groups, each led by a team of two faculty members, for a period of extended discussions. The total time for each discussion group is 1.5 hours and these sessions are designed to stimulate participant thinking and speculation about the disease and to inform them of the research already underway.