Opportunities in Neuroscience for Future Army Applications (2009) / Chapter Skim
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9 Conclusions and Recommendations
9 Conclusions and Recommendations
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fying individual variability in learning and tailoring training regimens to optimize individual learning. Recommendations on Neuroscience ReSEARCH The Army currently relies heavily on broad, general FoR BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE applications indicators of aptitude to predict training effectiveness and The committee's specific recommendations on research individual success rates.
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As a first step toward using monitoring, and preventing or treating deficits in soldier insights from these and other neuroscience-related fields, performance. These deficits may occur during a single results from relatively simple neuropsychological testing e xtended operation, or, when they are associated with Army could be empirically tested to seek correlations with suc- concepts such as individual soldier resiliency and unit-level cessful performance in one or more of these high-cost, high recovery and reset, they can affect performance over longer value assignments.
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How- ships with the pharmaceutical industry, the National Instiever, we lack sufficient fundamental understanding of how tutes of Health, and academic laboratories to keep abreast these systems interact and how they are influenced by the of advances in neuropharmacology, cellular and molecular environmental stressors to which a soldier is exposed. For neurobiology, and neural development and to identify new example, physical and mental fatigue are commonly believed drugs that have the potential to sustain or enhance perforto lead to less-than-optimal performance, but neither is well mance in military-unique circumstances.
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The Army should structure its neuroscience technology development that the committee announcements of opportunities for research to draw broadly believes are a high priority for Army investments. It is crition multiple scientifically sound approaches to improving cal that the emerging technology development pursued by cognitive and behavioral performance, extending across the the Army be subjected to rigorous scientific and operational entire spectrum of neuroscience research rather than relying validation.
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A more serious problem is that there Individual Variability as a Future Force Multiplier is currently no single point in the Army science and technology structure where progress in neuroscience, construed A number of conclusions drawn by the committee (Conbroadly, is being monitored for potential Army applications clusions 2, 3b, and 4) and Long-Term Trend 2, discussed in and from which coordinating guidance can be disseminated Chapter 8, relate to a common theme emerging from current to the distributed centers of relevant neuroscience-based neuroscience research -- namely, that individual differences R&D.
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the sources and characteristics of individual variability, the Individual variability influences operational readiness and Army should consider how to take advantage of variability the ability of military units to perform assigned tasks opti- rather than ignoring it or attempting to eliminate it from a mally, but it is in many ways at odds with the conventional soldier's behavior patterns in performing assigned tasks. The approach of training soldiers to be interchangeable compo- goal should be to seek ways to use individual variability to nents of a unit.
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