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: 7455940
• 负责人: Randall S. Larsen
• 金额: $ 25.98万
• 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/7455940
• 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）：该拟议培训计划的目标是培养基础行为科学家，并接受神经科学和遗传学这两种生物医学科学之一的严格广泛培训。在政府的支持下，我们将创建一个新的博士学位。华盛顿大学“心理学、神经科学和遗传学的接口”（IPNG）学位课程。培训项目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。计划性体验（例如课程作业、实验室轮换、座谈会等）将为学员提供系统性的接触心理学的行为观点，与系统和计算神经科学的生物医学观点以及行为、分子和统计遗传学相结合。目标是培养年轻科学家能够灵活运用基础生物医学科学的概念和方法来研究行为现象，如记忆、注意力和其他认知功能，精神分裂症、酗酒等行为障碍，情绪调节问题，以及人格、态度和社会认知等基本社会现象。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。尽管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，计划经验将使那些对这三个学科有兴趣的学员能够参加课程作业，并与整合心理学、神经科学和遗传学方面的导师一起参与。这种教育机会很少见，而且这种培训计划的独特性将使我们的毕业生成为其他大学生物行为科学教职人员的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领域。最后，通过招募和培训学生进行行为科学和生物医学科学交叉领域的研究，培训计划的核心教员将受益，因为该计划将促进参与培训计划的不同教员之间的合作研究。