Psychology & Medicine: Translational Research on Stress, Behavior and Disease

描述(由申请者提供)：该培训计划目前已进入第14个年头，培训研究人员在心理学和医学的交叉点进行跨学科研究，以更好地理解和治疗精神和身体疾病。我们的研究员学习进行翻译研究，将心理学理论和关于健康行为以及压力和心理生物学的研究应用于预防和改善包括严重抑郁、创伤后应激障碍和艾滋病在内的疾病。研究人员专注于这两个重点领域中的一个，但有一个共同的教学核心，包括两个研讨会，心理学和医学研讨会，研究过程研讨会，以及负责任的研究行为课程。贯穿这两个领域的是对社会背景和健康差异、因果建模方法和干预研究的重视。该项目得益于其位于领先的健康科学园区，在生物、社会/行为和临床科学方面拥有强大的培训和研究项目。我们有培养优秀研究人员的记录，这些研究人员后来从事了富有成效的研究事业。自上次申请和/或提议下一阶段以来的变化包括：(I)更加重视精神疾病，(2)更加注重心理生物学，(3)更加重视社会背景，(4)在这些领域建立新的核心和附属教职人员，(4)建立执行监督委员会，以及(6)与精神病学住院医师计划协调，以招募MD研究员。该项目目前有25名核心教员和35名附属教员，以及一个由6名成员组成的执行委员会，其成员涵盖基础和应用研究、心理学和精神病学，以及行为和压力/心理生物学。我们的教员以高度的研究活动和培训教员之间以及与其他领域的教员之间的合作而闻名。在两年的博士后培训期间，研究员将参加必要的研讨会和必要的补充课程，在初级导师的监督下进行独立研究，并提交至少一篇来自该研究的重要论文，完成资助申请的草稿，提交来自他们的论文和次级项目的额外论文，以及至少出席两次国家会议。过去的研究员一直非常富有成效和成功，他们中的大多数人在医学或学术中心的行为科学和医学的交界处进行备受推崇的跨学科研究。我们要求每年为四名新研究员提供资金。这意味着增加了一名研究员，使我们能够招聘一名精神科医生，以便在他们住院期间确定身份。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This training program, currently in its 14th year, trains researchers to conduct interdisciplinary research at the intersection of Psychology and Medicine to develop better understanding and treatment of mental and physical diseases. Our fellows learn to conduct translational research, applying psychological theories and research on health behaviors and on stress and psychobiology to the prevention and amelioration of diseases including Major Depression, PTSD, and AIDS. Fellows focus in one of these two emphasis areas, but share a common didactic core which includes two seminars, the Psychology and Medicine seminar, and the Research Process Seminar, and a course in the Responsible Conduct of Research. Cross-cutting both areas is an emphasis on social context and health disparities, methods for causal modeling, and intervention research. The program benefits from its placement on a leading health sciences campus, with strong training and research programs in the biological, social/behavioral, and clinical sciences. We have a track record of training outstanding researchers who have gone on to productive research careers. Changes since the last application and/or proposed for the next period include: (I) increased focus on mental illness, (2) greater psychobiological focus, (3) increased emphasis on social context, (4) new core and affiliated faculty in these areas (4) establishment of an Executive Oversight Committee, and (6) coordination with the Psychiatry residency program to recruit MD-fellows. The program now has 25 core and 35 affiliated faculty, and a 6- member Executive Committee whose members span basic and applied research, Psychology and Psychiatry, and behavior and stress/psychobiology. Our faculty are distinguished by a high degree of research activity and collaboration both among the training faculty and with faculty from other fields. During two years of post-doctoral training, fellows will take the required seminars and supplementary courses where needed, undertake independent research with supervision of a primary mentor and submit at least one significant paper from that research, complete a draft of a grant application, submit additional papers from their dissertation and secondary projects with program faculty, and present at a minimum of two national conferences. Past fellows have been very productive and successful, with the majority of them conducting highly regarded interdisciplinary research at the interface of the behavioral sciences and medicine in medical or academic centers. We request funding for four new fellows a year. This represents an increase of one fellow to allow us to recruit a psychiatrist to be identified during their residency.