Pittsburgh Mind-Body Center Summer Institutes

描述（由申请人提供）： 匹兹堡身心中心（PMBC）成立于1999年， 关于信念、态度、价值观和压力影响的研究和培训 在多种疾病，在雅阁与美国国立卫生研究院的要求，为五个新的 资助的“身心互动与健康中心”。“PMBC的 与其训练使命相关的具体目标是举行为期一周的夏季 关于身心相互作用和健康的研究所，每两年一次 专注于疾病和残疾的行为前因， 心理社会干预。 据我们所知，没有其他的夏天 在国家或国际一级建立关于这些专题的研究所。 PMBC教师已经进行了两个暑期研究所，并获得了宝贵的 为未来夏季的设计和实施提供信息和经验 院所 该申请要求三年的资金， 支持这些研究所的费用，并支付 未作为原始中心应用程序的一部分进行预算的与会者。 暑期研究所的具体目标是提供有关 连接行为、心理和生物联系的基本途径 环境因素和身体疾病之间的关系;评估 最先进的心理社会干预措施， 残疾;并提高研究技能，包括解决问题，设计 学习和思想交流。 总体目标是促进 在身心科学和健康领域培养一批新的研究人员。 我们预计每年将有25名科学家参加暑期研究所， 其中20人来自宾夕法尼亚州西部

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Pittsburgh Mind-Body Center (PMBC) was established in 1999 to conduct research and training on the effects of beliefs, attitudes, values, and stress on multiple diseases, in accord with the NIH requirements for five newly funded "Centers for Mind/Body Interactions and Health." One of PMBC's specific aims relevant to its training mission is to hold week long Summer Institutes on mind-body interactions and health, with alternate years concentrating on behavioral antecedents of disease and disability, and on psychosocial interventions. To our knowledge, there is no other summer institute on these topics available at a national or international level. PMBC faculty have already conducted two Summer Institutes and gained valuable information and experience for the design and conduct of future Summer Institutes. This application requests three years of funding to partially support the costs of these Institutes and to defray the travel expenses of the attendees that were not budgeted as part of the original Center application. The specific goals of the Summer Institutes are to provide information about basic pathways linking behavioral, psychological, and biological connections between environmental factors and physical illness; to evaluate the importance of state-of-the-art psychosocial interventions in preventing disease and disability; and to enhance research skills, including problems solving, design of studies, and communication of ideas. The overall goal is to foster the development of a cadre of new investigators in mind-body science and health. We anticipate that 25 scientists will attend the Summer Institute each year, with 20 from outside Western Pennsylvania.