Training in the Neuroscience of Mental Health

联系PD/PI：Rasenick，Mark 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，以了解大脑和心灵的生物学 并且精通目前精神疾病的治疗方法。学员们被介绍给 一个允许他们在多个实验室进行研究的项目， 从神经元的分子和细胞生物学到精神病患者的大脑成像。 这个综合性的课程允许学员开发新颖的实验方法， 发现和治疗。生物医学神经科学培训计划还灌输技能 帮助临床实习生更有效地研究诊断、治疗和 预防精神疾病。我们的挑战是整合分子和细胞 神经生物学与高阶系统，使大脑和心灵之间的汇合， 更好地理解。 培训师经过精心挑选，以提供一个环境， 学员将丰富彼此的经验，并学会在真正的精神， 翻译研究这些培训员分别在学院的几个系任职。 医学（以及艺术与科学学院和药学院的一些），但 作为一个单一的实体致力于培训计划。候选人是研究生的混合体 (both博士和医学博士/博士）和博士后研究员（精神病学住院医师和临床 心理学研究员）。因此，除了研究培训外，该计划的一个具体目标是 培训精神科医生/心理学家从事研究，并激发基础科学家对 在转化神经科学的职业生涯的可能性。此外，那些做基本 神经生物学开始适应他们的研究对心理健康的影响。的 该计划还支持一系列学术讨论会，预计将提供当前的数据和猜测 关于基础和临床神经科学。最后，要强调的是， 该计划的一个重要特点是，它有能力招募和培训代表性不足的少数民族，并将他们纳入 神经生物学、精神病学和临床心理学的研究人员队伍。这个程序是 致力于所有学员从多样性中受益的原则。 项目摘要/摘要第6页

Contact PD/PI: Rasenick, Mark 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 and Pharmacy) at UIC, but are committed to the training program as a single entity. Candidates are a mix of graduate students (both PhD and MD/PhD) and postdoctoral fellows (both psychiatry residents and clinical psychology fellows). Thus, in addition to 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. Furthermore, those doing basic neurobiology become 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. This program is committed to the principle that ALL trainees benefit from diversity. Project Summary/Abstract Page 6