Integrated Training in Psychobiology and Psychopathology

心理生物学和精神病理学综合培训

• 批准号: 7066801
• 负责人: Kim Wallen
• 金额: $ 18.25万
• 依托单位: EMORY UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-06-01 至 2011-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7066801
• 关键词: Integrated; Training; Psychobiology; Psychopathology

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Understanding the relationship between psychopathology and basic psychological and biological processes is crucial to curing significant mental health problems. We propose a program training clinical psychologists in basic science related to psychopathology and basic scientists in the nature of psychopathology. Focusing on how neuroendocrinolqgy and cognition relate to the development and expression of psychopathology, 9 predoctoral fellows will receive a coordinated three year training program starting in their 3rd year of graduate study. Selected from a pool of over 50 potential candidates already enrolled in four participating graduate programs, the fellows will be a unique cohort of students interested in bridging basic and applied science to understand psychopathology. The 24 participating faculty come from the Department of Psychology of Emory College, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. The training program involves four graduate programs: Clinical Psychology, Cognition and Development, Neuroscience and Animal Behavior, and the Neuroscience Training Program of the Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. The faculty's expertise 'covers psychopathologies from autism to schizophrenia and provides a unique training environment focusing on both human and nonhuman primates, as well as other animal models. Trainees have a mentor and a co-mentor from different graduate programs, fostering collaboration and increasing training diversity. Trainees will have completed the basic course work required by their graduate programs prior to program entry allowing focus on the training program offered by this fellowship. Trainees participate in a two-semester psychopathology sequence taught by clinical and basic science faculty exploring specific psychopathologies and relevant animal models. The first semester offers a high-level introduction to human psychopathology, assessment, methodologies, and treatment. The second semester focuses on the development of, and neuroendocrine and cognitive influences on, five psychopathologies: anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, developmental disorders, and personality disorders with consideration of relevant animal models. Trainees will acquire first hand knowledge of the nature of the psychopathology in addition to relevant basic research background. In addition to this core sequence in psychopathology, trainees take two additional courses, one in neuroscience and one in behavioral/cognitive science, developing their basic science skills in areas relevant to psychopathology. This training program will not provide clinical training, instead develops clinical researchers who are comfortable with and trained in the psychobiological systems underlying psychopathology and basic researchers who are comfortable with and trained in human psychopathology. Clinical trainees will get the opportunity to delve more deeply into the basic science underlying psychopathology while basic science trainees will come to understand the relationship between basic science and human mental illness.

描述(由申请人提供)： 了解精神病理学与基本的心理和生物过程之间的关系对于治疗重大的心理健康问题至关重要。我们提出了一项计划，培训临床心理学家与精神病理学相关的基础科学，并培训基础科学家了解精神病理学的性质。着眼于神经内分泌和认知如何与精神病理学的发展和表达有关，9名博士前研究员将从研究生学习的第三年开始接受为期三年的协调培训计划。这些研究员是从已经报名参加四个研究生项目的50多名潜在候选人中挑选出来的，他们将是一批对将基础科学和应用科学联系起来理解精神病理学感兴趣的独特的学生群体。参与研究的24名教职员工来自埃默里学院心理学系、精神病学和行为科学系以及耶克斯国家灵长类动物研究中心。该培训项目涉及临床心理学、认知与发展、神经科学和动物行为四个研究生项目，以及生物和生物医学研究生部的神经科学培训项目。该学院的专业知识涵盖了从自闭症到精神分裂症的精神病理学，并提供了一个独特的培训环境，专注于人类和非人类灵长类动物以及其他动物模型。学员有来自不同研究生项目的导师和共同导师，促进合作并增加培训多样性。学员将在进入项目之前完成研究生课程所要求的基本课程工作，以便专注于该奖学金提供的培训项目。受训者参加由临床和基础科学教员教授的为期两学期的精神病理学序列，探索特定的精神病理学和相关的动物模型。第一学期提供人类精神病理学、评估、方法论和治疗的高水平介绍。第二学期重点介绍焦虑、抑郁、精神分裂症、发育障碍和人格障碍这五种精神疾病的发展，以及神经内分泌和认知对这些疾病的影响，并考虑到相关的动物模型。学员将获得有关精神病理学性质的第一手知识，以及相关的基础研究背景。除了精神病理学的这一核心序列外，受训人员还参加了两门额外的课程，一门是神经科学，一门是行为/认知科学，以培养他们在与精神病理学相关的领域的基本科学技能。该培训计划不会提供临床培训，而是培养熟悉精神病理学基础的心理生物学系统并接受过培训的临床研究人员，以及熟悉并接受人类精神病理学培训的基础研究人员。临床实习生将有机会更深入地研究精神病理学背后的基础科学，而基础科学实习生将了解基础科学与人类精神疾病之间的关系。