Mental and Behavioral Aspects of the COVID-19 Pandemic

此申请要求R13资金用于2021年美国精神病理学会议 协会（APPA）就“2019冠状病毒病大流行的心理和行为方面”的主题。本课题是 由于自3月份以来一直困扰着我们国家的当前危机， 到2020年底及以后，并已导致巨大的压力，并可能引发和 加剧精神疾病和物质使用障碍。自1910年以来，APPA一直作为其 使命：支持对精神和行为障碍及其生物学基础的调查 和心理社会的基础，并促进青年科学家的发展。APPA拥有一个 年度科学会议，每年的主题都不一样。演讲者和与会者广泛 不同的学科和专业领域。APPA会议独特的全体会议形式 演讲激励信息、概念、方法、新发现、当前 争议，以及由于演讲者和演讲者的多样性而产生的知识差距 观众2021年会议的目的是推动灾害心理健康领域的整体发展， 特别是通过以这种独特的形式提供令人兴奋的科学会议， 通过刺激新的研究方向，合作和影响该领域的目标，对于初级 科学家和来自代表性不足的少数群体的人，新的联系和职业机会。 对于2021年的会议，演讲者都是各自领域的杰出领导者，包括NIH研究所 主任，大学系主任，中心主任和其他领域包括精神病学， 心理学、流行病学、遗传学和神经科学。演讲主题包括：灾难心理健康 和心理急救，预防灾后精神病理学，COVID心理的种族差异 健康结果，压力和自杀，弹性，暴露和反应预防治疗期间 COVID-19、COVID-19和成瘾流行病的碰撞，以及流行病的影响和 黑人的生命对少数物质使用者很重要。许多活动是专门为青少年设计的 科学家（学生、研究员、早期职业调查人员），例如，一个研讨会，早餐圆桌会议， 高级科学家，向整个APPA观众进行口头海报演示，以及会议指导。资金 要求主要是为了奖励，将提供2021年APPA出席的好处，以初级 科学家和来自代表性不足的少数群体的调查人员，否则他们将无法 参加2021年APPA会议。这样的出席旨在吸引年轻科学家成为 下一代研究人员的成员，以及代表性不足的群体的成员， 参与我们领域的研究。还要求提供资金，以促进2021年会议， 会议的一些基础设施费用。

This application requests R13 funds for the 2021 conference of the American Psychopathological Association (APPA) on the topic “Mental and Behavioral Aspects of the COVID-19 Pandemic.” This topic is timely due to the current crisis that has gripped our nation since March, appears likely to persist at least through the end of 2020 and beyond, and has led to enormous stress, and is liable to trigger and exacerbate mental illness and substance use disorders. The APPA, in existence since 1910, has as its mission to support the investigation of disorders of mind and behavior, and their biological underpinnings and psychosocial substrates, and to promote the development of junior scientists. The APPA holds a yearly scientific conference whose topic differs each year. Presenters and attendees are widely diverse in terms of disciplines and areas of expertise. The unique all-plenary format for APPA conference presentations stimulates an exchange of information, concepts, methods, new findings, current controversies, and pressing gaps in knowledge that arises due to the diversity of the presenters and the audience. The aim of the 2021 conference is to advance the field of disaster mental health in general and COVID-related areas in particular by providing an exciting scientific meeting in this unique format, with the goal of impacting the field by stimulating new research directions, collaborations, and, for junior scientists and those from under-represented minority groups, new connections and career opportunities. For the 2021 conference, presenters are all distinguished leaders in their fields, including NIH institute directors, university department chairs, center directors and others whose fields include psychiatry, psychology, epidemiology, genetics, and neuroscience. Presentation topics include: Disaster mental health and psychological first aid, Preventing post-disaster psychopathology, Ethnic variation in COVID mental health outcomes, Stress and suicide, Resilience, Exposure and response prevention treatment during COVID-19, The collision of the COVID-19 and addiction epidemics, and The Impact of the pandemic and Black Lives Matter on minority substance users. Many activities are designed specifically for junior scientists (students, fellows, early- career investigators), e.g., a workshop, breakfast round-table with senior scientists, oral poster presentations to the entire APPA audience, and meeting mentorship. Funds are requested primarily for awards that will provide the benefits of 2021 APPA attendance to junior scientists and to investigators from under-represented minority groups who would otherwise not be able to participate in the 2021 APPA meeting. Such attendance is designed to attract junior scientists to become members of the next generation of researchers, and members of under-represented groups to become involved in research in our field. Funds are also requested to facilitate the 2021 conference by covering some of the infrastructural costs of the meeting.