Training in the Neuroscience of Mental Health

描述(由申请者提供)：本培训计划(生物医学神经科学培训计划)的目标是培养和培训基础和临床科学家，以了解大脑和精神的生物学，并精通目前的精神疾病治疗方法。受训者被提供了一个项目，允许他们在多个实验室进行研究，研究范围从神经元的分子和细胞生物学到精神疾病患者的大脑成像。这一综合计划允许受训者开发新的发现和治疗的实验方法。生物医学神经科学培训计划还将灌输必要的技能，帮助临床实习生更有效地研究精神疾病的诊断、治疗和预防。我们的挑战是将分子和细胞神经生物学与更高级别的系统相结合，以便更好地理解大脑和大脑之间的融合。培训师经过精心挑选，以提供一个环境，让基础和临床学员能够丰富彼此的经验，并学习本着真正的翻译研究精神一起工作。这些培训员被安置在UIC医学院的几个部门，但作为一个单一实体致力于培训计划。候选人将包括研究生(博士和医学/博士)、博士后研究员(精神病学住院医师和博士或医学/博士研究人员)和从事非全日制研究的医学生。因此，除了纯粹的研究培训外，该计划的一个具体目标是培训精神病学家从事研究，并激发医学生对从事临床神经科学研究的可能性的兴趣。该计划还将支持一系列研讨会，预计将提供关于基础和临床神经科学的最新数据和猜测。最后，强调指出，这一方案的优势在于它有能力招募和培训代表不足的少数群体，并将他们带入神经生物学和精神病学研究人员的行列。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of this training program (the Biomedical Neuroscience Training Program) is to develop and train basic and clinical scientists to understand the biology of the brain and mind and to be well versed in current therapies for psychiatric illness. The trainees are presented with a program that will allow them to do research in a number of laboratories studying anything from the molecular and cellular biology of neurons to imaging of the brain in psychiatric patients. This comprehensive program allows trainees to develop novel experimental approaches to both discovery and therapy. The Biomedical Neuroscience Training Program will also instill skills necessary to help clinical trainees more effectively research the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of psychiatric disease. Our challenge is to integrate molecular and cellular neurobiology with higher order systems so that the confluence between brain and mind can be better understood. Trainers have been carefully selected to provide an environment where basic and clinical trainees will enrich each other's experience and learn to work together in the spirit of truly translational research. These trainers are housed in several departments within the College of Medicine at UIC, but are committed to the training program as a single entity. Candidates will be a mix of graduate students (both PhD and MD/PhD), postdoctoral fellows (both psychiatry residents and PhD or MD/PhD researchers) and medical students engaged in part-time research. Thus, in addition to pure research training, a specific goal of the program is to train psychiatrists to engage in research and to excite medical students about the possibility of a career in clinical neuroscience research. The program will also support a series of colloquia expected to deliver current data and speculation about both basic and clinical neuroscience. Finally, it is emphasized that a strength of this program is its ability to recruit and train underrepresented minorities and to bring them into the ranks of researchers in neurobiology and psychiatry.