Center for Mind-Body Research

描述(由申请人提供)：拟议的约翰霍普金斯心身研究中心(CMBR)将联合国际公认的最先进的专业知识和跨学科的领导结构，为心身研究人员发展一个强大、富有成效的智力社区。CMBR的主题包括检查影响健康相关结果的情绪和认知过程，将这些过程与健康联系起来的心理生物学机制，这些过程对了解健康差距的贡献，以及改变这些过程的干预措施。我们的团队是多元化的，分布在巴尔的摩地区的三所学校和两所学术机构。拟议的CMBR将汇集来自医学、牙科、护理和公共卫生的15个系的35名教职员工。拟议的中心关注许多健康结果，与目前的理解一致，即多种情绪和认知过程在不同疾病之间是相似的，并对健康有广泛影响。我们目前的项目涵盖了许多慢性病，包括哮喘、心血管疾病、哮喘和类风湿性关节炎，以及与健康相关的结果，包括疼痛、疲劳和残疾。CMBR将包括行政/规划、培训和测量/统计核心，这些核心将为概念化、实施、分析和评估整合了健康的心理和身体维度的创新研究提供共享资源。管理核心包括一个项目开发计划，以促进CMBR内外的合作。该核心将监督中心的工作，并为中心的发展和未来的合作制定计划。培训中心将组织研讨会、访问学者计划奖励教师培训津贴和指导计划。测量与统计核心将为CMBR的教职员工和学员提供创新的测量和统计技术。我们已经为我们的发展中心提供了强有力的机构支持，让大学最高层的教职员工参与监督和建议这个中心的创建。CMBR的总体目标是创建一个富饶的知识界，促进心身研究中富有成效的跨学科合作，并应用创新的研究方法来阐明将情绪和认知过程与健康和疾病联系起来的心理生物学机制，并促进旨在改善健康的心身干预措施的开发和评估。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed Johns Hopkins Center for Mind-Body Research (CMBR) will unite internationally recognized state-of-the-art expertise and a cross-disciplinary leadership structure to develop a strong, productive intellectual community for mind-body researchers. The themes for the CMBR include examining emotional and cognitive processes affecting health-related outcomes, psychobiological mechanisms linking these processes to health, the contribution of these processes to understanding health disparities, and interventions to change these processes. Our group is diverse and spread across three schools and two academic institutions in the Baltimore area. The proposed CMBR will bring together 35 faculty from 15 departments from medicine, dentistry, nursing, and public health. The proposed Center focuses on many health outcomes, consistent with current understanding that multiple emotional and cognitive processes are similar across diseases and have broad effects on health. Our current projects encompass a number of chronic illnesses, including asthma, cardiovascular disease, asthma, and rheumatoid arthritis, and health-related outcomes, including pain, fatigue, and disability. The CMBR will include Administrative/Planning, Training, and Measurement/Statistics Cores which will provide shared resources for conceptualizing, implementing, analyzing, and evaluating innovative research that integrates mental and physical dimensions of health. The Administrative Core includes a Project Development Program to facilitate collaborations both within and outside the CMBR. This Core will oversee the work of the Center and plan for Center growth and future collaborations. The Training Core will organize seminars, a Visiting Scholars program award Faculty Training stipends, and a Mentoring program. The Measurement & Statistics Core will provide innovative measurement and statistical technologies to CMBR faculty and trainees. We have generated strong institutional support for our developing Center by involving faculty from the highest level of the university in overseeing and advising the creation of this Center. The overall goals of the CMBR are to create a fertile intellectual community that facilitates productive cross-disciplinary collaborations in mind-body research and to apply innovative research methodologies to elucidate psychobiological mechanisms linking emotional and cognitive processes with health and illness and to foster the development and evaluation of mind-body interventions aimed at improving health.