Schizophrenia Research Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：此修订后的申请申请资金用于支持马里兰大学帕克分校（UMCP）建立的NRSA精神分裂症研究博士前培训计划。这个博士前培训项目旨在培养未来的精神分裂症研究人员，使他们能够将基本的行为、认知、发育和神经科学原理转化为精神分裂症的精神病理学和治疗研究。该NRSA将涉及UMCP临床心理学博士项目的四名博士生。选择博士前项目的重点是为了将培训放在学生职业生涯的早期，从而对学员的研究技能和科学方向以及他们未来的兴趣产生最大的影响，以保持对精神分裂症的职业关注。这个NRSA强调多学科的方向，包括多样化的课程和参与导师在UMCP， UM医学院和马里兰精神病学研究中心。该计划有五个组成部分，以实现多学科培训：1)学员完成精神分裂症的核心课程，包括该疾病的精神病理学以及功能和治疗的社会心理方面；2)行为，认知，发育和神经科学课程作为课程的一部分；3)学员参加每周一次的主题整合核心研讨会，包括核心教师，访问精神分裂症科学家的演讲；和来自相关领域如发展心理学和神经科学的教员，4)学员参加专注于精神分裂症的临床实习，5)研究员在Mentor实验室进行一系列精神分裂症的基础和应用研究，具有丰富的研究经验。导师代表了各种各样的研究，包括伦理问题、神经心理学、神经生理学、情感和应激反应、社会障碍和心理社会补救、性别差异、共病和家庭问题。总而言之，这一申请将允许NRSA的延续，它提供了一个独特的、急需的博士前项目，旨在培养那些受过训练并致力于精神分裂症病因和治疗研究的科学家。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This revised application requests funds to support an established NRSA predoctoral training program in schizophrenia research at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP). This predoctoral training program is designed to develop future schizophrenia researchers capable of translating basic behavioral, cognitive, developmental and neuroscience principles into research on the psychopathology and treatment of schizophrenia. This NRSA will involve four predoctoral students in the Ph.D. clinical psychology program at UMCP. The predoctoral focus of the program was selected in order to place training at an early point in students' careers and thus allow for the greatest impact on trainee's research skills and scientific orientation as well as their future interests in maintaining a career focus within schizophrenia. This NRSA emphasizes a multidisciplinary orientation that includes diverse course work and the involvement mentors at UMCP, the UM Medical School, and the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center. The program has five components to achieve multidisciplinary training: 1) trainees complete core courses in schizophrenia involving the psychopathology of this disorder as well as psychosocial aspects of functioning and treatment, 2) courses in behavioral, cognitive, developmental and neurosciences are taken as part of the program curriculum, 3) trainees participate in a thematically integrated weekly core seminar that includes presentations by core faculty, visiting schizophrenia scientists, and faculty from related fields such as developmental psychology and neuroscience, 4) trainees participate in a clinical externship focusing on schizophrenia, and 5) fellows have intensive research experiences within Mentor labs conducting a range of basic and applied research in schizophrenia. Mentors represent a diverse array of research including ethical issues, neuropsychology, neurophysiology, emotion and stress reactivity, social impairment and psychosocial remediation, gender differences, comorbidity, and family issues. In sum, this application will permit the continuation of an NRSA that provides a unique and much neeed predoctoral program aimed at developing scientists who are trained and devoted to the study of the causes and treatments of schizophrenia. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This application will permit the continuation of a graduate training program that is aimed at developing clinical psychologists who are devoted to the study of the causes and treatments of schizophrenia.