Training At The Interface of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Genetics

心理学、神经科学和遗传学交叉领域的培训

• 批准号: 7304543
• 负责人: Randall S. Larsen
• 金额: $ 17.32万
• 依托单位: WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-07-01 至 2012-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7304543
• 关键词: Genetic; Neurosciences; Psychology; Training

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this proposed training program is to develop basic behavioral scientists with rigorous broadbased training one of two biomedical sciences - neuroscience and genetics. With support from the Administration, we will create a new Ph.D. degree program at Washington University on the "Interface of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Genetics" (IPNG). The training program leadership and steering committee will include equal participation from faculty in psychology, neuroscience, and genetics. Programmatic experiences (e.g., coursework, lab rotations, colloquia, etc.) will provide trainees with systematic exposure to the behavioral perspectives from psychology integrated with biomedical perspectives from systems and computational neuroscience along with behavioral, molecular, and statistical genetics. The goal is to train young scientists who are able to flexibly apply concepts and methods from basic biomedical sciences to the study of behavioral phenomenon, such as memory, attention and other cognitive functions, behavioral disorders such as schizophrenia, alcoholism, problems with emotion regulation, and basic social phenomena such as personality, attitudes, and social cognition. This training program will provide benefits to trainees who are interested in research crossing traditional academic boundaries between psychology and two of the most important and exciting biomedical sciences - neuroscience and genetics. Although we anticipate that most trainees will specialize in neuroscience or genetics, according to their particular interests, programmatic experiences will make it possible for trainees who have interests that span these three disciplines to take coursework and become involved with mentors that integrate aspects of psychology, neuroscience, and genetics. Educational opportunities of this kind are rare, and the unique nature of this training program will make our graduates very attractive candidates for faculty positions in biobehavioral sciences at other universities. There will also be benefits to the fields of neuroscience and genetics research, in which new lines of behavioral investigation will be opened. Finally, through the process of recruiting and training students in research at the interface of behavioral and biomedical sciences, the core faculty members of the training program will benefit because the program will foster collaborative research endeavors among the very diverse set of faculty participating in the training program.

描述（由申请人提供）：这个拟议的培训计划的目标是发展基本的行为科学家与严格的基础广泛的培训两个生物医学科学之一-神经科学和遗传学。在政府当局的支持下，我们将增设一个新的博士学位。华盛顿大学的“心理学、神经科学和遗传学接口”（IPNG）学位课程。培训计划的领导和指导委员会将包括心理学，神经科学和遗传学教师的平等参与。方案经验（例如，课程作业、实验室轮换、座谈会等）将为学员提供系统的接触，从心理学的行为观点，结合生物医学的观点，从系统和计算神经科学沿着行为，分子和统计遗传学。目标是培养能够灵活应用基础生物医学科学的概念和方法来研究行为现象的年轻科学家，如记忆，注意力和其他认知功能，行为障碍，如精神分裂症，酗酒，情绪调节问题，以及基本的社会现象，如个性，态度和社会认知。该培训计划将为那些对跨越心理学和两个最重要和最令人兴奋的生物医学科学-神经科学和遗传学之间的传统学术界限的研究感兴趣的学员提供好处。虽然我们预计大多数学员将专注于神经科学或遗传学，但根据他们的特殊兴趣，计划经验将使那些有兴趣跨越这三个学科的学员能够参加课程，并与整合心理学，神经科学和遗传学方面的导师一起参与。这种教育机会是罕见的，这种培训计划的独特性质将使我们的毕业生在其他大学的生物行为科学教师职位非常有吸引力的候选人。神经科学和遗传学研究领域也将受益，其中将开辟新的行为研究路线。最后，通过招募和培训学生在行为和生物医学科学的接口研究的过程中，培训计划的核心教师将受益，因为该计划将促进参与培训计划的教师之间的非常多样化的合作研究努力。