Kindling Interest in Translational Developmental NeuroScience (KIDS)

描述（由申请人提供）：了解与精神疾病风险、发病和维持相关的发展过程是NIMH战略计划的核心组成部分。2008年全国心理健康咨询委员会工作组建议，如果要实现这一目标，就需要大力拓展一个新的领域——转化发育神经科学。要实现这些目标，就需要招收和培训多样化的学生群体，并在多个发展阶段进行研究培训。该计划的重点是为高质量的本科生开发暑期研究经验，否则他们将无法获得研究培训。具体来说，这个拟议的项目将把重点放在农村社区学院的农村学生身上，把他们带到大学医学院的校园里进行研究培训。30多年来，科罗拉多大学医学院的发展精神病理学和心理生物学研究组（DPRG）一直致力于为医生、心理学家和基础科学家提供转化发展神经科学方面的研究培训。该小组设在精神科，是一个多专业、多部门和多机构的小组

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Understanding developmental processes related to risk for, onset of, and maintenance of mental illness is a central component of the NIMH strategic plan. A 2008 National Advisory Mental Health Council Workgroup has suggested that, if this goal is to be met, there was be substantial expansion of a new field-translational developmental neuroscience. Meeting these goals will require recruitment and training of a diverse group of students, with research training at multiple stages of development. This program focuses on developing a summer research experience for high quality undergraduate students who would otherwise have no access to research training. Specifically, this proposed program will focus on rural students attending rural community colleges, bringing them to a University medical school campus for research training. The Developmental Psychopathology and Psychobiology Research Group (DPRG) at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, has, for over 30 years, focused on research training for physicians, psychologists, and basic scientists for careers in translational developmental neuroscience. The DPRG, while housed in a Department of Psychiatry, is a multi-specialty, multi-departmental, and multi-institutional group that facilitates the critical concepts of collaboration and translational work. This proposal requests funding for a summer undergraduate research training component for 7 rural community college students per year to be embedded in a well-established research training effort that includes both nationally recruited students from 4- year institutions and local urban underserved students from our undergraduate university. The proposed program includes (a) seminars related both to research content areas as well as to career developing, (b) intensive research experiences, (c) participation in the dissemination of research results, and (d) training in the responsible conduct of research. The expected success of this program is based on the previous achievements of the DPRG training programs. There will be ongoing evaluation of the program including both student feedback and outcome assessment. This will include short (e.g student satisfaction), intermediate (behavior in the 2-3 years following involvement in the program), and long-term (application and acceptance into relevant graduate training programs) outcomes. A Senior Advisory Board will provide oversight for the program and ensure use of the outcome data for ongoing quality improvement of the program.