心理健康哲学博士-心理健康与衰老

该计划的教职人员使用大规模的纵向观察和干预研究设计进行研究，包括：膳食补充，认知训练和认知上丰富的“日常”干预，以促进认知，大脑和功能健康，衰老和年龄的影像学研究相关的认知障碍，晚期睡眠障碍可作为认知和功能障碍与衰退的预测指标，不同年龄段成年人的精神障碍的自然历史和后果，认知衰退和阿尔茨海默氏病的遗传学，生活方式活动的实时评估作为未来干预目标，认知，大脑和功能性衰老和痴呆风险的环境和药物风险修饰因子，衰老和神经变性的动物模型以及预防晚年精神健康问题。
The PhD degree is a research-oriented doctoral degree. In the first two years, students take core courses in the Departments of Mental Health, Biostatistics, and Epidemiology, in research ethics, and attend weekly department seminars. Students must complete a written comprehensive exam (in January of their second year), a preliminary exam, two presentations and a final dissertation including presentation and defense. Throughout their time in the department, we encourage all doctoral students to participate in at least one research group of the major research programs in the department: Substance Use Epidemiology, Global Mental Health, Mental Health and Aging, Mental Health Services and Policy, Methods, Prevention Research, Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetic Epidemiology, Psychiatric Epidemiology, and Autism and Developmental Disabilities.<br>As the U.S. population of older adults booms over the coming decades, there will be an increasing demand for knowledge that can be leveraged to promote quality of life and prevent disability. The faculty members in the Department of Mental Health's Program in Cognitive Aging and Mental Health are highly committed to observational and intervention research aimed at enhancing cognitive and mental health. The Program faculty members conduct research using large-scale, longitudinal observational and intervention study designs, including: dietary supplemental, cognitive training, and cognitively enriching everyday interventions to promote cognitive, brain, and functional health, imaging studies of aging and age-related cognitive disorders, late-life sleep disturbances as predictors of cognitive and functional impairment and decline, the natural history and consequences of mental disorders in diverse aging adults, genetics of cognitive decline and Alzheimer disease, real-time assessment of lifestyle activity as future targets of intervention, environmental and pharmacologic risk modifiers of cognitive, brain and functional aging and dementia risk, animal models of aging and neurodegeneration, and prevention of late-life mental health problems.