STRESS AND THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDE

这是一个新的申请，正式建立一个培训工作的博士前学生和博士后研究员在该地区的压力和神经生物学的药物和酒精依赖。每年需要支助两名博士后研究员和两名博士前学生，任何时候最多四名学生和四名研究员。博士前实习生将是化学，生物学，心理学或相关学科的四年制课程的毕业生。这些学生将在完成培训计划后获得药理学博士学位。博士后研究员将从获得药理学、心理学或心理生物学博士学位的个人中招募。虽然药理学与治疗学系有着悠久而持续的合作传统，但NIDA支持的培训计划的建立将大大提高我们成功吸引和培训药物滥用研究的研究生和博士后研究员的能力。学生和研究员将有机会通过教师的多样化，多学科的利益作为导师为这个培训计划，以及通过正在进行的项目的高度协作性，在各种各样的领域的培训。这将使他们能够获得新的技术和信息的研究领域以外的那些他们直接工作。博士前学生将参加一系列课程，旨在为他们提供药理学的广泛理解，特别强调在压力和药物和酒精依赖的神经生物学的一般领域的研究。该计划的结构允许基于每个学生的特定需求和职业规划的灵活性。每个博士后的大部分时间都花在他/她的导师的实验室里进行研究，包括为每个学员个性化的任何教学工作。此外，所有学员都参加了一个赠款写作讲习班，旨在微调赠款写作技巧，并指导学员对研究提案进行批判性评价。该培训方案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.