Interdisciplinary Training in Biobehavioral Pain Research

描述（由申请人提供）：我们寻求续签约翰·霍普金斯医疗机构 (JHMI) 生物行为疼痛研究项目的博士后跨学科培训。疼痛是我们社会中最常见的症状之一，是一种高度复杂的现象，包括在生物体的神经生理和遗传环境中协调一致的情绪和认知反应。几乎在所有临床情况下，疼痛治疗仍然不足，因此需要培训下一代跨学科疼痛研究人员，以应对开发、评估、传播有效疼痛治疗并将其整合到临床护理中的挑战。拟议的博士后项目的总体目标是培养研究员在跨学科研究团队中合作解决复杂的疼痛问题。该计划的这项更新工作建议在所有研究员的培训过程中强调疼痛的神经科学。每位导师都积极资助，致力于年轻研究者的教育和培训，并致力于跨学科合作。该计划包括必修课程和选修课程，以及至少两个专业领域的指导研究经验，以及个人综合研究项目、校外资助申请以及论文的写作和出版。目标是：（1）理解疼痛的广泛概念，包括但不限于认知、情感、行为、社会和神经元生物过程； (2) 为疼痛神经科学奠定坚实的基础； (3) 培养与其他学科的科学家沟通、建立联系和合作的技能； (4) 设计并进行一项以疼痛为主要症状的综合研究； (5) 为疼痛领域的综合研究计划制定职业计划。每个研究员都将受到两个核心院系的协作指导，每个院系代表行为或社会科学、神经科学或临床研究的不同专业领域。 JHMI 校园提供丰富的现有培训项目供研究员互动。我们的目标是培养下一代疼痛科学家，领导跨学科研究团队，利用综合研究范式解决疼痛问题。 相关性：疼痛是我们社会最常见的症状之一，疼痛治疗的进展充其量也令人失望。鉴于即使是轻微的疼痛也会损害我们的功能能力，因此培养能够领导复杂研究的研究人员来研究持续性疼痛的原因并发现更好的缓解疼痛策略是当务之急。我们的目标是培养下一代疼痛研究人员来领导这项工作。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We seek to renew our postdoctoral Interdisciplinary Training in Biobehavioral Pain Research Program at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions (JHMI). Pain is one of the most common symptoms in our society, a highly complex phenomenon including emotional and cognitive responses in concert within the neurophysiologic and genetic milieu of the organism. The treatment of pain remains inadequate in almost every clinical situation and, as a result, demands the training of the next generation of interdisciplinary pain researchers to address the challenge of developing, evaluating, disseminating, and integrating effective pain treatments into clinical care. The overarching goal of the proposed postdoctoral program is to prepare fellows to work cooperatively within an interdisciplinary research team to address the complex problem of pain. This renewal effort of the Program proposes to emphasize the neuroscience of pain throughout the training of all fellows. Each faculty mentor is actively funded, engaged in the education and training of young investigators, and committed to interdisciplinary collaboration. The Program incorporates both required and elective coursework, mentored research experiences in at least two areas of expertise in addition to the individual integrated research project, extramural grant application, and the writing and publishing of papers. The objectives are: (1) to understand broad conceptualizations of pain including, but not limited to cognitive, emotional, behavioral, social and neuron-biologic processes; (2) to develop an enhanced foundation in the neuroscience of pain; (3) to develop skills for comrpunicating, networking and collaborating with scientists in other disciplines; (4) to design and conduct an integrative study of pain as a primary symptom; and (5) to develop a career plan for an integrative program of research in the area of pain. Each fellow is to be collaboratively mentored by two Core faculties, each representing a different area of expertise in behavioral or social science, neuroscience or clinical research. The JHMI campus provides a rich array of existing training programs with which fellows can interact. Our goal is to prepare the next generation of pain scientists to lead interdisciplinary research teams addressing the problem of pain using integrative research paradigms. RELEVANCE: Pain is one of the most common symptoms in our society, and advances in pain treatment have been disappointing at best. Given that even mild pain can impair our ability to function, developing researchers capable of leading complex studies to study the causes of persistent pain and discover better strategies for pain relief is imperative. Our goal is to prepare the next generation of pain researchers to lead this effort.