Training At the Interface of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Genetics

描述（由申请人提供）：我们的培训计划的目标是通过在神经科学和遗传学两种生物医学科学方面进行严格的广泛培训来培养基础行为科学家。为此，我们开发了一个培训项目，重点关注心理学、神经科学和遗传学的结合。受训者为博士预科生，每年6人，对从生物医学角度理解人类行为有浓厚兴趣。该培训项目包括华盛顿大学心理学、神经科学和遗传学项目的教员平等参与。该培训计划为学生提供了系统的心理学行为视角，结合了系统和计算神经科学的生物医学视角，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科学的概念和方法应用于研究行为现象（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、衰老和情绪调节问题以及基本社会现象（如人格、态度和社会认知）的年轻科学家。这项培训计划为那些对跨越心理学和两个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传统学术界限的研究感兴趣的学员提供了好处。这样的教育机会是罕见的，这个培训项目的独特性使我们的毕业生成为其他大学生物行为学项目中顶尖博士后或教职员工职位的有吸引力的候选人。神经科学和遗传学研究领域也有好处，在这些领域，行为研究的新路线正在开辟（例如，人类连接组项目，其中很大一部分是在华盛顿大学进行的）。最后，通过在“心理学、神经科学和遗传学交叉领域”招募和培训学生的过程，培训项目的核心教师也会受益，因为该项目促进了华盛顿大学参与培训项目的各种教职员工之间的合作研究努力。这个竞争性的续期申请要求支持另一个为期5年的培训，以继续每年6名学员的博士预科支持。

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.