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）的生物工程（BIOE）和精神病学正在寻求NIH的支持， 生物工程学预科生来培养心理健康研究人员。该计划旨在培养有才华的 具有工程和其他定量科学背景的学生，从事心理健康研究。 与NIMH战略相一致，我们设想定量和计算科学在以下方面发挥越来越大的作用： 精神病学研究该计划的受训人员（每年6名）将是唯一有资格帮助领导发展的人 并使用新的技术生物工程方法来应对心理健康研究的挑战。本次培训 该计划利用了UPitt精神病学研究中生物工程的广度，并为学生提供 获得精神疾病的临床表现和治疗。 博士生将参加生物工程，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。学生接触临床 通过纵向临床经验和两个为期1周的强化临床实习，一个多样化 由基础科学家组成的研究活跃导师小组（精神病学16人，生物工程16人）， 临床医生和工程师，作为顾问，指导学生在他们的博士研究工作，其中每个 学员将有2名主要共同导师（1名在生物能源和1名在精神病学）。最后，学生参加了几个 整个研究生学年的特定计划活动，旨在加强互动， 信息交流（学生与学生和学生与教师），并促进专业和职业 发展每个学生在培训学院的实验室接受广泛的研究培训。 有这个博士前培训计划的三个综合重点领域：（1）神经影像学，（2） 神经刺激和（3）神经工程。所有这些轨道都被大量利用在各种各样的精神 健康研究，包括情绪障碍、焦虑症、精神障碍、自杀和认知障碍 目前在UPitt有大量的研究人员致力于解决这些疾病。 这个培训计划将提供一个独特的教育和研究经验，旨在培训生物工程 科学家在心理健康研究中发展事业。

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.