Training At The Interface of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Genetics

描述（由申请人提供）：这个拟议的培训计划的目标是培养具有严格的广泛基础训练的基础行为科学家两种生物医学科学之一-神经科学和遗传学。在政府的支持下，我们将在华盛顿大学创建一个新的“心理学、神经科学和遗传学的接口”博士学位项目。培训项目的领导和指导委员会将包括心理学、神经科学和遗传学教师的平等参与。程序性体验（例如，课程作业，实验室轮转，座谈会等）将为学员提供系统地接触心理学的行为视角，结合系统和计算神经科学的生物医学视角，以及行为，分子和统计遗传学。其目标是培养能够灵活地将基础生物医学科学的概念和方法应用于研究行为现象（如记忆、注意力和其他认知功能）、行为障碍（如精神分裂症、酗酒）、情绪调节问题以及基本社会现象（如人格、态度和社会认知）的青年科学家。该培训计划将为那些对跨越心理学和两个最重要和最令人兴奋的生物医学科学-神经科学和遗传学之间传统学术界限的研究感兴趣的学员提供好处。虽然我们预计大多数学员将专攻神经科学或遗传学，但根据他们的特殊兴趣，项目经验将使那些对这三个学科感兴趣的学员有可能参加课程，并与整合心理学、神经科学和遗传学方面的导师接触。这种教育机会是罕见的，这个培训项目的独特性将使我们的毕业生成为其他大学生物行为科学教师职位的极具吸引力的候选人。这也将有利于神经科学和遗传学研究领域，在这些领域将开辟新的行为研究方向。最后，通过招收和培训行为和生物医学领域的学生，培训项目的核心教师将受益，因为该项目将促进参与培训项目的各种教师之间的合作研究努力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this proposed training program is to develop basic behavioral scientists with rigorous broadbased training one of two biomedical sciences - neuroscience and genetics. With support from the Administration, we will create a new Ph.D. degree program at Washington University on the "Interface of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Genetics" (IPNG). The training program leadership and steering committee will include equal participation from faculty in psychology, neuroscience, and genetics. Programmatic experiences (e.g., coursework, lab rotations, colloquia, etc.) will provide trainees with systematic exposure to the behavioral perspectives from psychology integrated with biomedical perspectives from systems and computational neuroscience along with behavioral, molecular, and statistical genetics. The goal is to train young scientists who are able to flexibly apply concepts and methods from basic biomedical sciences to the study of behavioral phenomenon, such as memory, attention and other cognitive functions, behavioral disorders such as schizophrenia, alcoholism, problems with emotion regulation, and basic social phenomena such as personality, attitudes, and social cognition. This training program will provide benefits to trainees who are interested in research crossing traditional academic boundaries between psychology and two of the most important and exciting biomedical sciences - neuroscience and genetics. Although we anticipate that most trainees will specialize in neuroscience or genetics, according to their particular interests, programmatic experiences will make it possible for trainees who have interests that span these three disciplines to take coursework and become involved with mentors that integrate aspects of psychology, neuroscience, and genetics. Educational opportunities of this kind are rare, and the unique nature of this training program will make our graduates very attractive candidates for faculty positions in biobehavioral sciences at other universities. There will also be benefits to the fields of neuroscience and genetics research, in which new lines of behavioral investigation will be opened. Finally, through the process of recruiting and training students in research at the interface of behavioral and biomedical sciences, the core faculty members of the training program will benefit because the program will foster collaborative research endeavors among the very diverse set of faculty participating in the training program.