STRESS AND THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDE

这是一个新的申请正式建立一个培训努力的博士生和博士后在压力和药物和酒精依赖的神经生物学领域。每年资助2名博士后和2名预科生，每次最多资助4名学生和4名研究员。博士预科学员将是化学、生物学、心理学或相关学科四年制课程的毕业生。这些学生在完成培训课程后将获得药理学博士学位。博士后将从获得药理学、心理学或心理生物学博士学位的个人中招募。尽管药理学和治疗学系有着悠久而持续的合作传统，但nida支持的培训计划的创建将大大提高我们成功吸引和培养药物滥用研究方面的研究生和博士后的能力。学生和研究员将通过作为该培训计划导师的教师的多样化、多学科兴趣以及正在进行的项目的高度协作性，获得广泛领域的培训。这将使他们能够在他们直接工作的领域以外的研究领域获得新技术和信息。博士预科学生将学习一系列课程，这些课程旨在为他们提供对药理学的广泛理解，特别强调压力和药物和酒精依赖的神经生物学的一般研究领域。该课程的结构允许根据每个学生的特殊需求和职业规划的灵活性。每个博士后的大部分时间都是在他/她的导师的实验室里进行研究，其中包括针对每个受训者的个性化教学工作。此外，所有的受训者都要参加一个拨款写作工作坊，旨在调整拨款写作技巧，并指导受训者对研究提案进行批判性评估。该培训计划的主要目标是为学生和青年科学家提供压力和药物滥用研究方面的全面指导。

This is a new application for the formal establishment of a training effort for predoctoral students and postdoctoral fellows in the area of Stress and the Neurobiology of Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Support is requested for two postdoctoral fellows and two predoctoral students yearly, with a maximum of four students and four fellows at any given time. Predoctoral trainees will be graduates of a four-year program in chemistry, biology, psychology or a related discipline. These students will receive a doctoral degree in Pharmacology upon completion of the Training Program. Postdoctoral fellows will be recruited from among individuals who received their doctoral degrees in pharmacology, psychology or psychobiology. Although the department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics has a long and continuing tradition of collaboration, the creation of a NIDA-supported Training Program will greatly enhance our ability to successfully attract and train graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in drug abuse research. Students and fellows will have access to training in a wide variety of areas through the diverse, multi-disciplinary interests of the faculty serving as preceptors for this Training Program as well as through the highly collaborative nature of ongoing projects. This will enable them to acquire new techniques and information in areas of research other than those in which they are working directly. Predoctoral students will take a series of courses designed to provide them with a broad understanding of pharmacology with special emphasis on research in the general area of stress and the neurobiology of drug and alcohol dependence. This Program is structured to permit flexibility based on the particular needs and career plans of each individual student. The majority of each postdoctoral time is spent conducting research in the laboratory(s) of his/her preceptor(s) of his/her preceptor(s), with the inclusion of any didactic work individualized for each trainee. In addition, all trainees participate in a grant writing workshop designed to fine tune grant writing skills and to instruct the trainees in the critical evaluation of research proposals. The primary goal of this Training Program is to provide students and young scientists with comprehensive guidance in stress and drug abuse research.