Schizophrenia Research Training Program

描述(由申请人提供)：这是一份修改后的申请，申请资金支持至少两年的精神分裂症研究博士前培训。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分裂症的精神病理学研究。拟议的培训计划将涉及马里兰大学学院公园分校(UMCP)临床心理学博士项目的四名博士前学生。选择该项目的博士前重点是为了将培训放在学生职业生涯的早期，从而对受训者的研究技能和科学取向以及他们未来在精神分裂症领域保持职业重点的兴趣产生最大的影响。该培训计划强调多学科方向，包括不同的课程工作，以及UMCP、马里兰大学医学院和马里兰精神病学研究中心的研究导师的参与。该计划将包括五个部分，以实现精神分裂症研究的多学科培训：1)受训人员将完成精神分裂症的核心课程，涉及精神分裂症的精神病理以及功能和治疗的心理社会方面；2)行为、认知、发展和神经科学方面的额外课程将被作为计划课程的一部分；3)受训人员将参加每周主题综合的核心研讨会，其中包括核心教员、访问精神分裂症的科学家以及发展心理学和神经科学等相关领域的教员的演讲；4)受训人员将参加为期一年的临床外展，重点是精神分裂症和严重精神疾病的评估和治疗，以及5)在整个培训计划中，研究员将在导师实验室内拥有密集的研究经验，进行一系列精神分裂症的基础和应用研究。导师代表了一系列不同的精神分裂症研究(主要由外部资助)，包括精神分裂症研究中的伦理问题、功能的神经心理学方面、神经药理学、症状学的神经模型、精神分裂症的情绪和应激反应、社会损伤和心理社会补救、精神分裂症发展风险的检测、评估和诊断、性别差异、共病、家庭问题和服务模式。总而言之，拟议的NRSA将建立一个独特的、亟需的博士前培训计划，该计划将培养受过培训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 is a revised application requesting funds to support a minimum of two years of predoctoral training in schizophrenia research. The 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 of schizophrenia. The proposed training program will involve four predoctoral students in the Ph.D. clinical psychology program at the University of Maryland, College Park (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 training program emphasizes a multidisciplinary orientation that includes diverse course work and the involvement of research mentors at UMCP, the University of Maryland Medical School, and the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center. The program will have five components to achieve multidisciplinary training in schizophrenia research: 1) trainees will complete core courses in schizophrenia involving the psychopathology of this disorder as well as psychosocial aspects of functioning and treatment, 2) additional courses in behavioral, cognitive, developmental and neurosciences will be taken as part of the program curriculum, 3) trainees will 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 will participate in a year-long clinical externship focusing on the assessment and treatment of schizophrenia and severe mental illness, and 5) throughout the training program, fellows will have intensive research experiences within Mentor labs conducting a range of basic and applied research in schizophrenia. Mentors represent a diverse array of schizophrenia research (largely extramurally-funded) including ethical issues in the study of schizophrenia, neuropsychological aspects of functioning, neuropharmacology, neurological models of symptomatology, emotion and stress reactivity in schizophrenia, social impairment and psychosocial remediation, detection of risk for the development of schizophrenia, assessment and diagnosis, gender differences, comorbidity, family issues, and service models. In sum, the proposed NRSA would establish a unique and much needed predoctoral training program that will develop scientists who are trained and devoted to the study of the causes and treatments of schizophrenia.