Training in the Neuroscience of Mental Health

 产品说明：该培训计划（生物医学神经科学培训计划）的目标是培养和培训基础和临床科学家，以了解大脑和心灵的生物学，并精通当前精神疾病的治疗方法。受训人员是 向他们展示了一个项目，允许他们在许多实验室进行研究，从神经元的分子和细胞生物学到精神病患者的大脑成像。这个综合性的课程允许学员开发新的实验方法来发现和治疗。生物医学神经科学培训计划还灌输必要的技能，以帮助临床学员更有效地研究精神疾病的诊断，治疗和预防。我们面临的挑战是将分子和细胞神经生物学与更高阶的系统相结合，以便更好地理解大脑和心灵之间的汇合。培训师经过精心挑选，为基础和临床学员提供了一个丰富彼此经验的环境，并学习以真正的转化研究精神共同工作。这些培训师被安置在UIC医学院的几个部门（以及艺术与科学学院和药学院的几个部门），但致力于作为一个单一实体的培训计划。候选人是研究生（博士和MD/博士）和博士后研究员（精神病学居民和临床心理学研究员）的混合。因此，除了研究培训外， 该计划的目的是培训精神病学家/心理学家从事研究，并激发基础科学家对转化神经科学职业的可能性。此外，那些做基础神经生物学的人会适应他们的研究对心理健康的影响。该计划还支持一系列座谈会，预计将提供有关基础和临床神经科学的当前数据和推测。最后，需要强调的是，这一方案的优势在于能够招募和培训代表性不足的少数群体，并使他们融入社会。 神经生物学、精神病学和临床心理学的研究人员队伍。该计划致力于所有学员从多样性中受益的原则。

 DESCRIPTION: The objective of this training program (the Biomedical Neuroscience Training Program) is to develop and train basic and clinical scientists to understand the biology of the brain and mind and to be well versed in current therapies for psychiatric illness. The trainees are presented with a program that allows them to do research in a number of laboratories studying anything from the molecular and cellular biology of neurons to imaging of the brain in psychiatric patients. This comprehensive program allows trainees to develop novel experimental approaches to both discovery and therapy. The Biomedical Neuroscience Training Program also instills skills necessary to help clinical trainees more effectively research the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of psychiatric disease. Our challenge is to integrate molecular and cellular neurobiology with higher order systems so that the confluence between brain and mind can be better understood. Trainers have been carefully selected to provide an environment where basic and clinical trainees will enrich each other's experience and learn to work together in the spirit of truly translational research. These trainers are housed in several departments within the College of Medicine (as well as a few in the College of Arts and Sciences and Pharmacy) at UIC, but are committed to the training program as a single entity. Candidates are a mix of graduate students (both PhD and MD/PhD) and postdoctoral fellows (both psychiatry residents and clinical psychology fellows). Thus, in addition to research training, a specific goal of the program is to train psychiatrists/psychologists to engage in research and to excite basic scientists about the possibility of a career in translational neuroscience. Furthermore, those doing basic neurobiology become attuned to the implications of their research for mental health. The program also supports a series of colloquia expected to deliver current data and speculation about both basic and clinical neuroscience. Finally, it is emphasized that strength of this program is its ability to recruit and train underrepresented minorities and to bring them into the ranks of researchers in neurobiology, psychiatry and clinical psychology. This program is committed to the principle that ALL trainees benefit from diversity.