Training At the Interface of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Genetics

描述(由申请者提供)：我们的培训计划的目标是培养在神经科学和遗传学这两门生物医学科学方面具有严格而广泛的培训的基础行为科学家。为了做到这一点，我们开发了一个培训计划，重点是心理学、神经科学和遗传学的接口。受训人员是博士生预科学生--每年6名--对从生物医学的角度理解人类行为有着浓厚的兴趣。该培训计划包括华盛顿大学心理学、神经科学和遗传学课程的教职员工相当平等的参与。该培训计划为学生提供系统地接触心理学的行为观点，结合系统和计算神经科学的生物医学观点，以及行为、分子、统计遗传学和基因组学。目标是培养能够将基础生物医学的概念和方法应用于行为现象研究的年轻科学家，如记忆、注意力、决策和其他认知功能，行为障碍，精神分裂症，酗酒，衰老，情绪调节问题，以及基本社会现象，如个性、态度和社会认知。这一培训计划为那些对跨越心理学和两门最重要和最令人兴奋的生物医学科学-神经科学和遗传学-之间的传统学术界限的研究感兴趣的受训者提供了好处。这样的教育机会很少见，这一培训项目的独特性质使我们的毕业生成为其他大学生物行为项目顶级博士后或教职人员的热门人选。神经科学和遗传学研究领域也有好处，在这些领域，行为研究正在开辟新的路线(例如，人类连接组项目，其中很大一部分设在华盛顿大学)。最后，通过在“心理学、神经科学和遗传学的交汇点”招募和培训学生的研究，培训计划的核心教员也受益，因为该计划促进了华盛顿大学参与培训计划的不同教职员工之间的合作研究努力。这项相互竞争的续签申请要求为另外5年的培训提供支持，以继续为每年6名受训人员提供博士前支持。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of our training program is to develop basic behavioral scientists with rigorous broad- based training in two biomedical sciences - neuroscience and genetics. To do this we developed a training program that focuses on the interface of psychology, neuroscience, and genetics. Trainees have been pre-doctoral students - 6 per year - with a strong interest in understanding human behavior from a biomedical perspective. The training program includes fairly equal participation from faculty in Washington University's Psychology, Neuroscience, and Genetics programs. The training program provides students with systematic exposure to the behavioral perspectives from psychology, integrated with biomedical perspectives from systems and computational neuroscience along with behavioral, molecular, statistical genetics, and genomics. The goal is to train young scientists who are able to apply concepts and methods from basic biomedical sciences to the study of behavioral phenomenon, such as memory, attention, decision making, and other cognitive functions, behavioral disorders, schizophrenia, alcoholism, aging, and problems with emotion regulation, and basic social phenomenon such as personality, attitudes, and social cognition. This training program provides benefits to trainees who are interested in research crossing traditional academic boundaries between psychology and two of the most important and exciting biomedical sciences - neuroscience and genetics. Educational opportunities of this kind are rare, and the unique nature of this training program makes our graduates attractive candidates for top post-doctoral or faculty positions in bio-behavioral programs at other universities. There are also benefits to the fields of neuroscience and genetics research, in which new lines of behavioral investigation are being opened (e.g., the Human Connectome Project, a large part of which is based at Washington University). Finally, through the process of recruiting and training students in research at the "interface of psychology, neuroscience, and genetics," the core faculty members of the training program also benefit because the program fosters collaborative research endeavors among the very diverse set of Washington University faculty participating in the training program. This competing renewal application requests support for another 5-year period of training, to continue pre-doctoral support at six trainees per year.