Bioengineering in Psychiatry Training Program

精神病学生物工程培训计划

• 批准号: 10652258
• 负责人: HOWARD J AIZENSTEIN
• 金额: $ 24.64万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-07-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10652258
• 关键词: Biomedical Engineering; Psychiatry; Training Programs

ABSTRACT Through the mechanism of a pre-doctoral T32 interdisciplinary training program, the Departments of Bioengineering (BIOE) and Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh (UPitt) are seeking NIH support for bioengineering pre-docs to train as mental health researchers. The program is aimed at educating talented students with engineering and other quantitative sciences background for careers in mental health research. Consistent with the NIMH strategic, we envision an increasing role for quantitative and computational science in psychiatric research. The trainees (6 per year) of this program will be uniquely qualified to help lead development and use new technical bioengineering approaches to address mental health research challenges. This training program capitalizes on the breadth of bioengineering in psychiatry research at UPitt and provides students with access to the clinical presentation and treatment of psychiatric disorders. PhD trainees will take foundational courses in bioengineering, cognitive and computational neuroscience, psychopathology, and ethics and will be complemented by electives. Students are exposed to clinical environments via a longitudinal clinical experience and two 1-week intensive clinical observerships. A diverse group of research-active mentors (16 in Psychiatry and 16 in Bioengineering) comprised of basic scientists, clinicians, and engineers, serve as advisors to guide students in their doctoral research efforts where each mentee will have 2 principle co-mentors (1 in BIOE and 1 in Psychiatry). Finally, students participate in several program-specific activities throughout their graduate school years, designed to enhance interactions and exchange of information (student-student and student-faculty) and to facilitate professional and career development. Each student receives extensive research training in the laboratories of the training faculty. There are three integrated focus areas of this pre-doctoral training program: (1) Neuroimaging, (2) Neurostimulation, and (3) Neural Engineering. All of these tracks are heavily utilized in a wide variety of mental health research including mood disorder, anxiety disorder, psychotic disorder, suicide, and cognitive impairment where currently there is a critical mass of researchers at UPitt addressing these disorders. This training program will provide a unique educational and research experience aimed at training bioengineering scientists to develop careers in mental health research.

抽象的 通过博士前T32跨学科培训计划的机制， 匹兹堡大学的生物工程（Bioe）和精神病学（UPITT）正在寻求NIH支持 生物工程前培训以作为心理健康研究人员进行培训。该计划旨在教育才华 具有工程学和其他定量科学背景的学生在心理健康研究领域的职业背景。 与NIMH战略一致，我们设想在定量和计算科学中发挥越来越多的作用 精神病研究。该计划的学员（每年6个）将具有独特的资格，以帮助领导开发 并使用新的技术生物工程方法来应对心理健康研究挑战。这个培训 计划在UPITT的精神病学研究中的生物工程广度化，并为学生提供 获取精神疾病的临床表现和治疗。 博士学员将参加生物工程，认知和计算神经科学的基础课程， 心理病理学和道德，选修课将得到补充。学生接触临床 通过纵向临床经验和两个为期1周的密集临床观察工作的环境。多元化 一组研究活性导师（16名精神病学，16个在生物工程中），由基础科学家组成 临床医生和工程师作为指导学生进行博士研究工作的顾问 受训者将有2个主要联合官员（生物中的1个，精神病学中有1个）。最后，学生参加了几个 在整个研究生学年中，特定于计划的活动，旨在增强互动和 信息交流（学生和学生教师），以促进专业和职业 发展。每个学生在培训教师的实验室接受广泛的研究培训。 该博士前培训计划有三个综合重点领域：（1）神经影像学，（2） 神经刺激和（3）神经工程。所有这些曲目都在各种精神上都大量使用 健康研究包括情绪障碍，焦虑症，精神病，自杀和认知障碍 目前，在UPITT方面有大量研究人员解决这些疾病。 该培训计划将提供旨在培训生物工程的独特教育和研究经验 科学家发展心理健康研究的职业。