Training in the Neuroscience of Mental Health

描述（由申请人提供）：本培训计划（生物医学神经科学培训计划）的目标是培养和培训基础和临床科学家，以了解大脑和精神生物学，并精通当前精神疾病的治疗方法。受训者将学习一个项目，该项目允许他们在多个实验室进行研究，从神经元的分子和细胞生物学到精神病人的大脑成像。这个综合项目允许学员开发新的实验方法来发现和治疗。生物医学神经科学培训计划还灌输必要的技能，以帮助临床受训者更有效地研究精神疾病的诊断、治疗和预防。我们面临的挑战是将分子和细胞神经生物学与高阶系统结合起来，以便更好地理解大脑和思维之间的融合。经过精心挑选的培训师提供了一个环境，使基础和临床培训人员能够丰富彼此的经验，并以真正的转化研究精神学习共同工作。这些培训师被安置在ucc医学院的几个部门（以及艺术和科学学院的一些部门），但他们作为一个单一的实体致力于培训计划。候选人将是研究生（包括博士和医学博士/博士）和博士后（包括精神病学住院医师和临床心理学研究员）的组合。因此，除了纯粹的研究培训外，该项目的一个具体目标是培训精神科医生/心理学家从事研究，并激发基础科学家从事转化神经科学研究的可能性。此外，那些从事基础神经生物学研究的人将会意识到他们的研究对心理健康的影响。该项目还支持一系列座谈会，旨在提供有关基础和临床神经科学的最新数据和推测。最后，强调的是，这个项目的优势在于它能够招募和培训代表性不足的少数民族，并将他们带入神经生物学、精神病学和临床心理学的研究人员行列。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of this training program (the Biomedical Neuroscience Training Program) is to develop and train basic and clinical scientists to understand the biology of the brain and mind and to be well versed in current therapies for psychiatric illness. The trainees are presented with a program that allows them to do research in a number of laboratories studying anything from the molecular and cellular biology of neurons to imaging of the brain in psychiatric patients. This comprehensive program allows trainees to develop novel experimental approaches to both discovery and therapy. The Biomedical Neuroscience Training Program also instills skills necessary to help clinical trainees more effectively research the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of psychiatric disease. Our challenge is to integrate molecular and cellular neurobiology with higher order systems so that the confluence between brain and mind can be better understood. Trainers have been carefully selected to provide an environment where basic and clinical trainees will enrich each other's experience and learn to work together in the spirit of truly translational research. These trainers are housed in several departments within the College of Medicine (as well as a few in the College of Arts and Sciences) at UlC, but are committed to the training program as a single entity. Candidates will be a mix of graduate students (both PhD and MD/PhD) and postdoctoral fellows (both psychiatry residents and clinical psychology fellows). Thus, in addition to pure research training, a specific goal of the program is to train psychiatrists/psychologists to engage in research and to excite basic scientists about the possibility of a career in translational neuroscience research. Furthermore, those doing basic neurobiology will be attuned to the implications of their research for mental health. The program also supports a series of colloquia expected to deliver current data and speculation about both basic and clinical neuroscience. Finally, it is emphasized that a strength of this program is its ability to recruit and train underrepresented minorities and to bring them into the ranks of researchers in neurobiology, psychiatry and clinical psychology.