Bioengineering in Psychiatry Training Program

摘要 通过博士前T32跨学科培训计划的机制， 匹兹堡大学(UPitt)生物工程(BioE)和精神病学正在寻求NIH的支持 生物工程博士后培训为心理健康研究人员。该计划旨在培养有才华的人。 具有工程学和其他量化科学背景的学生从事心理健康研究。 与NIMH战略一致，我们预计定量和计算科学在 精神病学研究。该计划的实习生(每年6名)将唯一有资格帮助领导发展 并使用新的技术生物工程方法来应对心理健康研究挑战。这次培训 该计划利用生物工程在精神病学研究中的广度，为学生提供 获得精神障碍的临床表现和治疗。 博士生将学习生物工程、认知和计算神经科学的基础课程， 精神病理学和伦理学，并将由选修课补充。学生接触到临床 通过长期的临床经验和两次为期一周的强化临床观察，在不同的环境中工作。一个多样化的 由基础科学家组成的研究活动导师小组(精神病学16人，生物工程16人)， 临床医生和工程师担任指导学生进行博士研究工作的顾问， 导师将有2名主要合作导师(1名生物工程系和1名精神病学系)。最后，学生们参与了几个 在研究生期间开展特定于项目的活动，旨在加强互动和 信息交流(学生与学生和学生与教职员工之间)，促进职业和职业发展 发展。每个学生都在培训学院的实验室接受广泛的研究培训。 这个博士前培训项目有三个综合的重点领域：(1)神经成像，(2) 神经刺激，以及(3)神经工程学。所有这些轨迹在各种各样的心理活动中都得到了广泛的利用 健康研究包括情绪障碍、焦虑障碍、精神障碍、自杀和认知障碍 目前，华盛顿大学皮特分校有一大批研究人员正在研究这些疾病。 该培训计划将提供一种独特的教育和研究经验，旨在培训生物工程 科学家们在精神健康研究方面发展事业。

ABSTRACT Through the mechanism of a pre-doctoral T32 interdisciplinary training program, the Departments of Bioengineering (BIOE) and Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh (UPitt) are seeking NIH support for bioengineering pre-docs to train as mental health researchers. The program is aimed at educating talented students with engineering and other quantitative sciences background for careers in mental health research. Consistent with the NIMH strategic, we envision an increasing role for quantitative and computational science in psychiatric research. The trainees (6 per year) of this program will be uniquely qualified to help lead development and use new technical bioengineering approaches to address mental health research challenges. This training program capitalizes on the breadth of bioengineering in psychiatry research at UPitt and provides students with access to the clinical presentation and treatment of psychiatric disorders. PhD trainees will take foundational courses in bioengineering, cognitive and computational neuroscience, psychopathology, and ethics and will be complemented by electives. Students are exposed to clinical environments via a longitudinal clinical experience and two 1-week intensive clinical observerships. A diverse group of research-active mentors (16 in Psychiatry and 16 in Bioengineering) comprised of basic scientists, clinicians, and engineers, serve as advisors to guide students in their doctoral research efforts where each mentee will have 2 principle co-mentors (1 in BIOE and 1 in Psychiatry). Finally, students participate in several program-specific activities throughout their graduate school years, designed to enhance interactions and exchange of information (student-student and student-faculty) and to facilitate professional and career development. Each student receives extensive research training in the laboratories of the training faculty. There are three integrated focus areas of this pre-doctoral training program: (1) Neuroimaging, (2) Neurostimulation, and (3) Neural Engineering. All of these tracks are heavily utilized in a wide variety of mental health research including mood disorder, anxiety disorder, psychotic disorder, suicide, and cognitive impairment where currently there is a critical mass of researchers at UPitt addressing these disorders. This training program will provide a unique educational and research experience aimed at training bioengineering scientists to develop careers in mental health research.