New Horizons in Human Brain Imaging: A Focus on Brain Networks and Connectivity

描述（由申请人提供）：在神经成像的背景下，对理解基本大脑连接的探索已经引起了国际上的兴趣，尤其是来自太平洋沿岸的国家。根据这项R13提案（NIH PA-08-149），我们寻求支持，以支付来自北美和环太平洋地区的主要研究人员为期3天的国际会议的部分费用，该会议名为“人脑成像的新视野：关注大脑网络和连通性”。会议将包括对神经成像科学的下一个时代至关重要的关键主题，并讨论使用快速发展的方法来测量和理解功能和结构脑连接的研究和临床动机。特别是，会议将特别关注可实现的方法，通过这些方法，来自这些国家的研究人员可以最大限度地合作努力，解决这个充满活力和多学科领域面临的科学和临床挑战。预计将有30位演讲者提供有关大脑网络和连接的基础和临床神经科学的见解。此外，将向每个参与国的学生颁发两到四个小型奖学金，根据参加意愿、经济需要、会议是否适合他们的研究培训以及高级同事和导师的推荐信进行评审。共有20名学生将获得奖学金。与会者将在会议期间享受正式的科学会议，在非正式活动期间有机会与受邀演讲者互动，并向会议组织者提供宝贵的经验反馈。这份R13会议提案直接说明了NIH最近对人类大脑连接图谱的兴趣，它的使命是扩大跨学科边界的参与，它的目标是促进国际合作，以及科学知识、数据和资源的开放交流。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The quest to understand fundamental brain connectivity in the context of neuroimaging has received international levels of interest - most notably from countries around the Pacific. Under this R13 proposal (NIH PA-08-149), we seek support to cover the partial costs of a 3-day international meeting of leading researchers from North America and Pacific Rim regions entitled "New Horizons in Human Brain Imaging: A Focus on Brain Networks and Connectivity". The meeting will be comprised of key themes important to the next era of neuroimaging science and address the research and clinical motivations for the research using rapidly evolving methods for measuring and understanding functional and structural brain connectivity. In particular, the meeting will focus specifically on attainable means by which investigators from these nations may maximize collaborative effort in addressing the scientific and clinical challenges facing this dynamic and multi-disciplinary field. Thirty speakers are expected to provide insight into the basic and clinical neuroscience of brain networks and connectivity. Additionally, two to four small studentships will be award to students in each participating country, adjudicated based on desire to attend, financial need, suitability of the meeting for their research training, and on the basis of letters of recommendation from senior colleagues and mentors. A total of twenty studentships will be awarded. Meeting participants will enjoy formal scientific sessions during the meeting, have the opportunity to interact with the invited speakers during informal functions, and provide valuable feedback on their experiences to meeting organizers. This R13 meeting proposal speaks directly to the NIH's recent interests in the mapping of human brain connectivity, its mission to broaden participation across disciplinary boundaries, its goals in promoting international collaborations, and the open exchange of scientific knowledge, data, and resources. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Brain connectivity as measured using neuroimaging is rapidly becoming a major theme for research that is forming the basis for the next era of neuroscience research into brain health and disease. This interest toward understanding fundamental brain networks exists at an international level - notably from researchers around the Pacific Rim. This meeting seeks to gather leading neuroscientists from Pacific Rim countries to share ideas, data, and potentially resources toward the characterization, analysis, and modeling of brain functional and structural connectivity using neuroimaging. The meeting seeks to provide a vision for the future of human brain imaging in the context of brain networks and connectivity that will have direct impact on brain research, clinical medicine, and public health in the US and abroad.