Schizophrenia Research Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：此修订后的申请要求资金，以支持在马里兰州大学帕克分校（UMCP）的精神分裂症研究中建立的NRSA博士前培训计划。该博士前培训计划旨在培养未来的精神分裂症研究人员，能够将基本的行为，认知，发展和神经科学原理转化为精神病理学和精神分裂症治疗的研究。这个NRSA将涉及四个博士预科生在博士学位。临床心理学课程该计划的博士前重点是为了在学生职业生涯的早期进行培训，从而对受训者的研究技能和科学方向以及他们未来在精神分裂症中保持职业重点的兴趣产生最大的影响。该NRSA强调多学科方向，包括不同的课程工作和UMCP，UM医学院和马里兰州精神病学研究中心的参与导师。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，涉及这种疾病的精神病理学以及功能和治疗的心理社会方面，2）行为，认知，发展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综合核心研讨会，其中包括核心教师，访问精神分裂症科学家，研究员来自发展心理学和神经科学等相关领域，4）学员参加了以精神分裂症为重点的临床实习，5）研究员在Mentor实验室进行了一系列精神分裂症基础和应用研究。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，情绪和压力反应，社会障碍和心理社会补救，性别差异，comorphism和家庭问题。总之，这项申请将允许继续NRSA，提供一个独特的和非常需要的博士前计划，旨在培养受过训练并致力于研究精神分裂症的原因和治疗的科学家。

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.