Training in the Neuroscience of Mental Health

描述（由申请人提供）：本培训计划（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，并精通目前精神疾病的治疗方法。学员们将接受一个项目，该项目将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将灌输必要的技能，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，但致力于培训计划作为一个单一的实体。候选人将是研究生（博士和MD/PhD），博士后研究员（精神病学居民和博士或MD/PhD研究人员）和从事兼职研究的医学生的混合。因此，除了纯粹的研究培训外，该计划的一个具体目标是培训精神科医生从事研究，并激发医学生从事临床神经科学研究的可能性。该计划还将支持一系列学术讨论会，预计将提供有关基础和临床神经科学的最新数据和推测。最后，它强调，该方案的一个优势是它能够招募和培训代表性不足的少数民族，并使他们成为神经生物学和精神病学的研究人员。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): 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 will allow 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 will also instill 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 at UIC, but are committed to the training program as a single entity. Candidates will be a mix of graduate students (both PhD and MD/PhD), postdoctoral fellows (both psychiatry residents and PhD or MD/PhD researchers) and medical students engaged in part-time research. Thus, in addition to pure research training, a specific goal of the program is to train psychiatrists to engage in research and to excite medical students about the possibility of a career in clinical neuroscience research. The program will also support a series of colloquia expected to deliver current data and speculation about both basic and clinical neuroscience. Finally, it is emphasized that a strength of this program is its ability to recruit and train underrepresented minorities and to bring them into the ranks of researchers in neurobiology and psychiatry.