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

描述（由申请人提供）：该培训项目目前已进入第14个年头，培训研究人员在心理学和医学的交叉领域进行跨学科研究，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转化研究，将心理学理论和健康行为研究以及压力和心理生物学应用于预防和改善疾病，包括重度抑郁症，创伤后应激障碍和艾滋病。研究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。这两个领域的交叉是强调社会背景和健康差异、因果建模方法和干预研究。该计划受益于其位于领先的健康科学校园，在生物学，社会/行为和临床科学方面拥有强大的培训和研究项目。我们在培养优秀的研究人员方面有着良好的记录，这些研究人员已经走上了富有成效的研究事业。自上次申请和/或提议的下一阶段的变化包括：(1)增加对精神疾病的关注，(2)增加对心理生物学的关注，(3)增加对社会背景的重视，(4)在这些领域建立新的核心和附属教员，(4)建立执行监督委员会，(6)与精神病学住院医师项目协调招募医学博士研究员。该项目目前拥有25名核心教师和35名附属教师，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、行为和压力/心理生物学。我们的教师以高度的研究活动和培训教师之间以及与其他领域的教师之间的合作而闻名。在两年的博士后培训期间，研究员将参加所需的研讨会和必要的补充课程，在主要导师的监督下进行独立研究，并提交至少一篇重要的研究论文，完成一份拨款申请草案，提交他们的论文和与项目教师合作的次要项目的额外论文，并出席至少两次全国会议。过去的研究员都是非常富有成效和成功的，他们中的大多数在医学或学术中心在行为科学和医学的界面上进行了高度重视的跨学科研究。我们每年申请资助四名新研究员。这意味着增加了一名研究员这样我们就可以招募一名精神病医生在他们住院期间进行鉴定。

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.