Schizophrenia Research Training Program

描述(由申请人提供)：本修订申请申请资金，以支持在马里兰大学，学院公园(UMCP)建立的精神分裂症研究的NRSA博士前培训计划。这一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和治疗研究。这次NRSA将涉及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。NRSA强调一个多学科的方向，其中包括不同的课程工作和参与UMCP、UM医学院和马里兰精神病学研究中心的导师。该计划由五个部分组成，以实现多学科培训：1)受训人员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、发展和神经科学课程被作为计划课程的一部分；3)受训人员参加每周主题综合的核心研讨会，其中包括核心教员、精神分裂症访问科学家和发展心理学和神经科学等相关领域的教员的演讲；4)受训人员参加以精神分裂症为重点的临床实习；5)研究员在导师实验室内拥有丰富的研究经验，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研究，包括伦理问题、神经心理学、神经生理学、情绪和应激反应、社会损伤和心理社会补救、性别差异、共病和家庭问题。总而言之，这项申请将允许NRSA继续进行，该计划提供了一个独特的、亟需的博士前课程，旨在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。 公共卫生相关性：这项申请将允许继续实施研究生培训计划，旨在培养致力于研究精神分裂症病因和治疗的临床心理学家。

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. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This application will permit the continuation of a graduate training program that is aimed at developing clinical psychologists who are devoted to the study of the causes and treatments of schizophrenia.