Educational Program in Translational Sleep and Mental Health Research

简介(申请人提供)：翻译睡眠与心理健康研究教育项目(缩写为SLEUTH；翻译心理健康睡眠教育研究)组成年度会议，旨在为博士后和博士后学生提供基础和临床睡眠研究方面的高级培训。侦探计划的目标是确保为学生提供跨学科的指导，以便建立一群杰出的年轻科学家，他们能够产生关于睡眠大脑基本属性的新的重要信息，特别是与心理健康有关的信息。为了实现这一目标，侦探计划将利用一支杰出教员的综合优势。在Sleuth项目的支持下，来自睡眠领域和相关学科的教员将集中他们的资源，在基础和临床睡眠研究的分子、细胞、系统和行为方面提供指导，并培训年轻的研究人员进行翻译研究。重点将放在为睡眠研究提供指导，以推进NIMH战略计划的目标。此外，国家心理健康咨询委员会研究培训工作组2008年报告中详细介绍的指令“投资于未来”将被纳入学生的选择和侦探计划的活动。强调概念和以创造性形式解决问题的创新项目将像过去一样，成为侦探项目的标志。此外，侦探课程将专注于有潜力供学生使用的新领域，如功能基因组学、非线性数学和神经信息学。侦探计划还将包括涉及伦理和恩赐精神的特殊活动；此外，广泛的教学将不仅包括睡眠领域的方法和数据，还包括相关学科的方法和数据。重点将放在神经科学的所有领域以及生命周期的所有阶段--从婴儿期到老年--的培训，重点是将睡眠与精神健康问题联系起来。我们认为，侦探项目至关重要，因为它们是美国(或世界)唯一专门为博士后和博士后学生提供基础、临床和转化性睡眠和心理健康研究指导的持续项目。为学生提供大量的资源；因此，SLEUTH计划将发挥“无墙大学”的作用，为包括少数族裔和弱势群体在内的学生提供多学科和跨学科的指导。根据NIMH的指示，还将重点纳入来自不同背景的个人、内科科学家和国际学者。 公共卫生相关性：翻译睡眠和心理健康研究教育项目(缩写为SLEUTH；翻译心理健康睡眠教育研究)将在所有睡眠(和昼夜节律)研究领域为博士后和博士后学生提供指导，包括与心理健康相关的基础、临床和翻译研究。创新项目将以创造性的形式强调与睡眠相关的假设、概念和解决问题的活动。还将提供神经科学尖端领域的教学，这些领域有可能被学生使用，如功能基因组学、非线性数学和神经信息学。学生们将有充足的时间从教职员工那里获得指导，并在非正式的基础上与他们互动。所有侦探计划课程的一个关键部分将是对NIMH战略计划的定位和指导，包括涉及精神健康和精神障碍的研究的与睡眠有关的方面。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Educational Program in Translational Sleep and Mental Health Research (abbreviated as SLEUTH; Sleep EdUcational research in Translational mental Health) constitute annual meetings that are designed to provide advanced training in basic and clinical sleep research for predoctoral and postdoctoral students. The objective of the SLEUTH Programs is to assure that interdisciplinary instruction is available for students in order to establish a coterie of outstanding young scientists who are able to generate new important information regarding the fundamental properties of the sleeping brain, especially in relation to mental health. To achieve this objective, the SLEUTH Programs will capitalize on the combined strengths of a distinguished faculty. Under the auspices of the SLEUTH Programs, the faculty, from the sleep field and related disciplines, will pool their resources and provide instruction in molecular, cellular, systems and behavioral aspects of basic and clinical sleep research as well as train young investigators in translational research. A priority will be placed on providing guidance in sleep research that advances the objectives of the NIMH Strategic Plan. In addition, the directives detailed in the 2008 Report of the National Advising Mental Health Council Workgroup on Research Training, "Investing in the Future," will be incorporated into the selection of students and the activities of the SLEUTH Programs. Innovative programs that stress concepts and problem-solving in creative formats will, as in the past, be hallmarks of the SLEUTH Programs. In addition, the SLEUTH Programs will focus on new areas that have the potential for use by the students, such as functional genomics, non-linear mathematics and neuroinformatics. The SLEUTH Programs will also include special activities dealing with ethics and grantsmanship; a wide range of instruction will, in addition, encompass methodologies and data not only from the field of sleep but also from related disciplines. An emphasis will be placed on training in all areas of neuroscience, and at all stages of the life cycle, ranging from infancy to old age, with an emphasis in relating sleep to problems of mental health. We believe that the SLEUTH Programs are critically important insofar as they are the only continuing program in the nation (or world) specifically designed to provide instruction for predoctoral and postdoctoral students in basic, clinical and translational sleep and mental health research. A vast array of resources that will be available to the students; thus, the SLEUTH Programs will function as a "University Without Walls;" by providing multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary instruction for students including minorities and disadvantaged individuals. In accord with the directives of NIMH, an emphasis will also be placed on including individuals from diverse backgrounds, physician-scientists and international scholars. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The Educational Program in Translational Sleep and Mental Health Research (abbreviated as SLEUTH; Sleep EdUcational research in Translational mental Health) will provide instruction for pre-doctoral and postdoctoral students in all areas of sleep (and circadian rhythm) research, including basic, clinical and translational studies, in relation to mental health. Innovative programs will be presented that stress sleep-related hypotheses, concepts and problem-solving activities in creative formats. Instruction will also be provided in cutting-edge areas of neuroscience that have the potential for use by the students, such as functional genomics, non-linear mathematics, and neuroinformatics. The students will have ample time to obtain guidance from the faculty and interact with them on an informal basis. A key part of the curricula of all SLEUTH Programs will be an orientation to and instruction in the NIMH Strategic Plan, including sleep-related aspects of research involving mental health and mental disorders.