Schizophrenia Research Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一份修订后的申请，要求提供资金，以支持至少两年的精神分裂症研究博士前培训。博士前培训计划旨在培养未来的精神分裂症研究人员能够将基本的行为，认知，发展和神经科学原理转化为精神分裂症的精神病理学研究。拟议的培训计划将涉及四名博士预科生在博士学位。马里兰州大学帕克分校（UMCP）的临床心理学项目。该计划的博士前重点是为了在学生职业生涯的早期进行培训，从而对受训者的研究技能和科学方向以及他们未来在精神分裂症中保持职业重点的兴趣产生最大的影响。该培训计划强调多学科方向，包括多样化的课程工作和UMCP，马里兰州医学院大学和马里兰州精神病学研究中心的研究导师的参与。 该计划将有五个组成部分，以实现精神分裂症研究的多学科培训：1）学员将完成精神分裂症的核心课程，涉及这种疾病的精神病理学以及功能和治疗的心理社会方面，2）行为，认知，发展和神经科学的额外课程将作为课程的一部分，3）学员将参加一个主题综合的每周核心研讨会，其中包括核心教师，访问精神分裂症科学家，以及相关领域的教师，如发展心理学和神经科学，4）学员将参加为期一年的临床实习，重点是精神分裂症和严重精神疾病的评估和治疗，5）在整个培训计划中，研究员将在Mentor实验室进行一系列精神分裂症的基础和应用研究，具有深入的研究经验。导师代表了精神分裂症研究的多样化（主要由校外资助），包括精神分裂症研究中的伦理问题，功能的神经心理学方面，神经药理学，精神病学的神经模型，精神分裂症的情绪和应激反应，社会损害和心理社会补救，精神分裂症发展风险的检测，评估和诊断，性别差异，合并症，家庭问题，服务模式。总之，拟议中的NRSA将建立一个独特的和急需的博士前培训计划，将培养谁是训练有素的科学家，致力于精神分裂症的原因和治疗的研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a revised application requesting funds to support a minimum of two years of predoctoral training in schizophrenia research. The predoctoral training program is designed to develop future schizophrenia researchers capable of translating basic behavioral, cognitive, developmental and neuroscience principles into research on the psychopathology of schizophrenia. The proposed training program will involve four predoctoral students in the Ph.D. clinical psychology program at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP). The predoctoral focus of the program was selected in order to place training at an early point in students' careers and thus allow for the greatest impact on trainee's research skills and scientific orientation as well as their future interests in maintaining a career focus within schizophrenia. This training program emphasizes a multidisciplinary orientation that includes diverse course work and the involvement of research mentors at UMCP, the University of Maryland Medical School, and the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center. The program will have five components to achieve multidisciplinary training in schizophrenia research: 1) trainees will complete core courses in schizophrenia involving the psychopathology of this disorder as well as psychosocial aspects of functioning and treatment, 2) additional courses in behavioral, cognitive, developmental and neurosciences will be taken as part of the program curriculum, 3) trainees will participate in a thematically integrated weekly core seminar that includes presentations by core faculty, visiting schizophrenia scientists, and faculty from related fields such as developmental psychology and neuroscience, 4) trainees will participate in a year-long clinical externship focusing on the assessment and treatment of schizophrenia and severe mental illness, and 5) throughout the training program, fellows will have intensive research experiences within Mentor labs conducting a range of basic and applied research in schizophrenia. Mentors represent a diverse array of schizophrenia research (largely extramurally-funded) including ethical issues in the study of schizophrenia, neuropsychological aspects of functioning, neuropharmacology, neurological models of symptomatology, emotion and stress reactivity in schizophrenia, social impairment and psychosocial remediation, detection of risk for the development of schizophrenia, assessment and diagnosis, gender differences, comorbidity, family issues, and service models. In sum, the proposed NRSA would establish a unique and much needed predoctoral training program that will develop scientists who are trained and devoted to the study of the causes and treatments of schizophrenia.