Developmental Psychobiology & Neurobiology Training

描述(由申请者提供)：该项目旨在培训5名 博士后和3名博士后实习生，任何时间，用于研究和 发展心理生物学和神经生物学方面的培训职业。这是我们的 认为，由于行为的发展依赖于 神经系统，了解心理发展的过程 需要具备行为和神经发展的综合知识。 因此，提出了一种综合的跨学科培训方案。实习生 将被两个授予学位的单位之一录取：神经科学 方案(NP)和生物心理学系 心理学。与医学院(乌尔巴纳-香槟)联合a 医学博士/博士学位也通过这两个项目提供。 该计划的设计理念包括以下几个方面： 1)因为“机遇眷顾有准备的头脑”，科学家可以做得更多 如果他们的视角是广泛的跨学科的，那么他们就会富有成效；2)因为 这个培训计划的主要目标是发展研究技能， 学生应该沉浸在研究中，并得到强有力的导师支持 通过研究生培训；3)学习和发展的能力 关键的新方法很重要，研究培训必须做好准备 一个是新技能和现有技能的磨练；4)演示技能， 与学生、同事、评价界和公众交流想法 是成为一名好科学家的关键部分，也是良好的职业道德 既需要对规则的了解，也需要判断力，这两个方面都必须学习 通过正式的榜样和有良好导师的实验室经验。 教职员工的范围从行为导向的心理学家到分子导向的 生物学家。这个小组的成员已经证明了他们非常有能力 合作与协作，尽管他们的背景各不相同。这 广泛的知识自助餐允许提供独特的培训计划， 为其产品配备设备，以应对属于 标题为“神经科学”。仔细关注一组核心概念， 知识的广度，适当地围绕学员的重点 学员和多名教职员工之间的兴趣和富有成效的互动 我们的培训具有多学科的特点。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This program is designed to train 5 predoctoral and 3 postdoctoral trainees, at anyone time, for research and training careers in developmental psychobiology and neurobiology. It is our belief that, since behavioral development rests upon the development of the nervous system, an understanding of the psychological development process requires an integrated knowledge of both behavioral and neural development. Thus an integrated interdisciplinary training program is proposed. Trainees will be admitted via one of two degree-granting units: the Neuroscience Program (NP) and the Biological Psychology Division of the Department of Psychology. In conjunction with the College of Medicine (Urbana-Champaign) a joint MD/PhD degree is also offered through both Programs. The philosophy underlying the design of this program includes the following: 1) because "chance favors the mind prepared", scientists can be more productive if their perspective is broadly interdisciplinary; 2) because the primary goal of this training program is development of research skills, students should be immersed, with strong mentor support, in research throughout their graduate training; 3) the ability to learn and develop critical new methodologies is important, and research training must prepare one for new skills as well as hone those current; 4) presentation skills, communicating ideas to students, colleagues, evaluative arenas and the public is a crucial part of being a good scientist, and 5) good professional ethics requires judgment asmuch as knowledge of the rules, which must be learned both through formal example and through in-laboratory experience with good mentors. Faculty range from behaviorally-oriented psychologists to molecularly-oriented biologists. Members of this group have proven themselves exceptionally capable of cooperation and collaboration, despite their diversity of background. This broad buffet of knowledge allows for a unique program of training that can equip its product to deal with the broad range of phenomena that fall under the heading "neuroscience". Careful attention to a core set of concepts, breadth of knowledge, centered appropriately around the trainee's focus of interest, and productive interactions among trainees and multiple faculty in multiple disciplines characterize our training.