Training Program in Mental Health Research

心理健康研究培训计划

• 批准号: 8450112
• 负责人: STEPHEN R SALTON
• 金额: $ 18.45万
• 依托单位: ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-06-01 至 2017-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8450112
• 关键词: Mental Health; Research; Training Programs

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed Training Program in Mental Health Research will provide predoctoral and postdoctoral students in the Neurosciences with an integrated training experience in the laboratories of nationally and internationally recognized faculty. The predoctoral training program builds on an exciting, translationally relevant curriculum taught in years one and two of graduate school that has been recently awarded NIH support through the Jointly Sponsored Predoctoral Early Stage T32 Training Program mechanism. The postdoctoral program will draw together complementary pools of clinical and basic science fellows. The proposed new training program would be Mount Sinai's first to support research training for Ph.D. students in the Neurosciences, and would be unique at Mount Sinai in its approach to providing postdoctoral mental health research training to clinical and basic fellows. Outstanding training faculty share a common thematic interest: understanding how the function and plasticity of specific neural circuits impact, and are impacted by, neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disease. Varied laboratory opportunities at Mount Sinai School of Medicine take advantage of particular strengths in translational neuroscience, notably in developmental neurobiology, mechanisms of neuropsychiatric disease, cognitive neuroscience, neuroimaging, signal transduction, and synaptic and behavioral plasticity. At Mount Sinai, the nervous system is studied in diverse model systems, from 'simple' invertebrates such as the sea snail Aplysia, the fruit fly, or the worm C. elegans, all the way to complex vertebrates including nonhuman primates and humans. Through their course work, predoctoral trainees will have received a solid foundation in basic neurobiology and the pathophysiology of neurological and psychiatric disease. Postdoctoral trainees will be admitted from residency or fellowship programs (e.g. Psychiatry), or following completion of Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D. programs, and they will be offered a tailored didactic and research experience. Selection of a research mentor is made in a collaborative environment that actively promotes multidisciplinary, integrative research. The training program encourages participation of faculty mentors whose research grants directly focus on mental health research, while not excluding those whose research is critically important for the interdisciplinary training we seek to impart. Research training will also have a didactic 'work in progress' component, to foster these important interdisciplinary interactions, hone presentation skills, and improve awareness of ethical issues. Using this approach, the Training Program in Mental Health Research will provide predoctoral and postdoctoral students with the guidance and experimental tools, in the laboratories of our training faculty, to launch successful, productive, independent careers in mental health research.

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的心理健康研究培训计划将为神经科学的博士前和博士后学生提供在国家和国际公认的教师实验室的综合培训经验。博士前培训计划建立在一个令人兴奋的，与研究生院的第一年和第二年教授的相关课程的基础上，该课程最近通过联合赞助的博士前早期T32培训计划机制获得了NIH的支持。博士后计划将汇集临床和基础科学研究员的互补池。拟议中的新培训计划将是西奈山第一个支持博士研究培训的计划。在神经科学的学生，并将在西奈山独特的方法，提供博士后心理健康研究培训的临床和基础研究员。优秀的培训教师有一个共同的主题兴趣：了解特定神经回路的功能和可塑性如何影响，并受到神经发育和神经精神疾病的影响。西奈山医学院的各种实验室机会利用了转化神经科学的特殊优势，特别是在发育神经生物学，神经精神疾病的机制，认知神经科学，神经成像，信号转导以及突触和行为可塑性。在西奈山，神经系统在不同的模型系统中进行研究，从“简单”的无脊椎动物，如海蜗牛Aaprissia，果蝇或蠕虫C。从线虫一直到复杂的脊椎动物，包括非人类灵长类动物和人类。通过他们的课程工作，博士前学员将获得基础神经生物学和神经和精神疾病的病理生理学的坚实基础。博士后学员将从住院医生或奖学金计划（如精神病学），或完成博士学位后录取。或医学博士/博士课程，他们将提供一个量身定制的教学和研究经验。研究导师的选择是在积极促进多学科，综合研究的协作环境中进行的。该培训计划鼓励教师导师的研究赠款直接集中在心理健康研究的参与，同时不排除那些研究是至关重要的跨学科培训，我们寻求传授。研究培训也将有一个教学的“工作进展”的组成部分，以促进这些重要的跨学科的互动，磨练演讲技巧，并提高对伦理问题的认识。使用这种方法，在心理健康研究的培训计划将提供博士前和博士后学生的指导和实验工具，在我们的培训教师的实验室，推出成功的，富有成效的，独立的职业生涯在心理健康研究。