Center for Mind-Body Research

描述（由申请人提供）：约翰霍普金斯身心研究中心（CMBR）联合国际公认的最先进的专业知识和跨学科的领导结构，以发展强大的，富有成效的身心研究人员的知识社区。CMBR汇集了来自医学，护理和公共卫生学院16个部门的34名教师。CMBR的科学目标是了解影响健康和健康相关结果的情感和认知过程，确定将这些过程与健康结果联系起来的心理生物学机制，并开发和评估改变这些过程的创新干预措施。CMBR包括研究支持核心（管理，生物统计学，生物测量，心理物理学和临床研究实施）和发展基础设施（研究支持和教育/教师发展），以支持研究人员完成中心的科学目标。在我们发展的第一阶段，这些广泛的目标集中在三个相互关联，重叠和多确定的主题上，我们中心对此具有很强的专业知识：负面情绪，睡眠障碍和神经激素应激反应。为了进一步组织我们的教师和学员实现我们的目标，我们已经开发了两个疾病/问题为基础的工作组：一个研究心血管疾病和其他研究疼痛。该中心提供共享资源的概念化，实施，分析和评估创新的研究，整合健康的心理和身体方面。我们通过大学内最高级别的教师参与，为我们的中心提供了强有力的机构支持。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Johns Hopkins Center for Mind-Body Research (CMBR) unites internationally recognized state-of-the- art expertise and a cross-disciplinary leadership structure to develop a strong, productive intellectual community of mind-body researchers. The CMBR brings together 34 faculty from 16 departments from the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health. The scientific objectives for the CMBR are to understand emotional and cognitive processes affecting health and health-related outcomes, to identify the psychobiological mechanisms linking these processes to health outcomes, and to develop and evaluate innovative interventions to change these processes. The CMBR includes both Research Support Cores (Administration, Biostatistics, Biological Measures, Psychophysics, and Clinical Research Implementation) and a Developmental Infrastructure (Research Support and Education/Faculty Development) to support investigators' research in accomplishing the Center's scientific objectives. During the first phase of our development, these broad objectives have been focused into three inter-related, overlapping, and multi- determined themes for which our Center has strong expertise: negative emotions, sleep disturbance, and neurohormonal stress responses. To further organize our faculty and trainees to accomplish our goals, we have developed two disease/problem-based working groups: one studying cardiovascular disease and the other studying pain. The Center provides shared resources for conceptualizing, implementing, analyzing, and evaluating innovative research that integrates mental and physical dimensions of health. We have generated strong institutional support for our Center through involvement of faculty from the highest levels within the university.