Psychology & Medicine: Translational Research on Stress, Behavior and Disease

描述（由申请人提供）：该培训计划，目前在其第14年，培训研究人员在心理学和医学的交叉点进行跨学科研究，以更好地了解和治疗精神和身体疾病。我们的研究员学习进行转化研究，将心理学理论和健康行为研究以及压力和心理生物学应用于预防和改善疾病，包括重度抑郁症，PTSD和艾滋病。研究员专注于这两个重点领域之一，但共享一个共同的教学核心，其中包括两个研讨会，心理学和医学研讨会，研究过程研讨会，以及一个负责任的研究行为课程。贯穿这两个领域的是强调社会背景和健康差距，因果建模方法和干预研究。该计划受益于其在领先的健康科学校园的位置，在生物，社会/行为和临床科学方面具有强大的培训和研究计划。我们有培训优秀的研究人员谁去了富有成效的研究生涯的跟踪记录。自上次申请以来的变化和/或提出的下一个时期包括：（1）增加对精神疾病的关注，（2）更大的心理生物学的重点，（3）更加重视社会背景，（4）在这些领域的新的核心和附属教师（4）建立一个执行监督委员会，以及（6）与精神病学住院医师计划的协调，以招募MD研究员。该计划现在有25个核心和35个附属教师，以及一个6人执行委员会，其成员涵盖基础和应用研究，心理学和精神病学，行为和压力/心理生物学。我们的教师是由一个高度的研究活动和培训教师之间的合作，并与来自其他领域的教师区分。在两年的博士后培训期间，研究员将在需要时参加所需的研讨会和补充课程，在主要导师的监督下进行独立研究，并从该研究中提交至少一篇重要论文，完成拨款申请草案，提交论文和二级项目的额外论文与计划教师，并出席至少两次全国会议。过去的研究员一直非常富有成效和成功，他们中的大多数人在医学或学术中心的行为科学和医学的接口进行高度重视的跨学科研究。我们要求每年资助四名新研究员。这意味着增加了一名研究员，使我们能够招募一名精神病医生，在他们住院期间进行鉴定。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This training program, currently in its 14th year, trains researchers to conduct interdisciplinary research at the intersection of Psychology and Medicine to develop better understanding and treatment of mental and physical diseases. Our fellows learn to conduct translational research, applying psychological theories and research on health behaviors and on stress and psychobiology to the prevention and amelioration of diseases including Major Depression, PTSD, and AIDS. Fellows focus in one of these two emphasis areas, but share a common didactic core which includes two seminars, the Psychology and Medicine seminar, and the Research Process Seminar, and a course in the Responsible Conduct of Research. Cross-cutting both areas is an emphasis on social context and health disparities, methods for causal modeling, and intervention research. The program benefits from its placement on a leading health sciences campus, with strong training and research programs in the biological, social/behavioral, and clinical sciences. We have a track record of training outstanding researchers who have gone on to productive research careers. Changes since the last application and/or proposed for the next period include: (I) increased focus on mental illness, (2) greater psychobiological focus, (3) increased emphasis on social context, (4) new core and affiliated faculty in these areas (4) establishment of an Executive Oversight Committee, and (6) coordination with the Psychiatry residency program to recruit MD-fellows. The program now has 25 core and 35 affiliated faculty, and a 6- member Executive Committee whose members span basic and applied research, Psychology and Psychiatry, and behavior and stress/psychobiology. Our faculty are distinguished by a high degree of research activity and collaboration both among the training faculty and with faculty from other fields. During two years of post-doctoral training, fellows will take the required seminars and supplementary courses where needed, undertake independent research with supervision of a primary mentor and submit at least one significant paper from that research, complete a draft of a grant application, submit additional papers from their dissertation and secondary projects with program faculty, and present at a minimum of two national conferences. Past fellows have been very productive and successful, with the majority of them conducting highly regarded interdisciplinary research at the interface of the behavioral sciences and medicine in medical or academic centers. We request funding for four new fellows a year. This represents an increase of one fellow to allow us to recruit a psychiatrist to be identified during their residency.