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December 12, 2008
Retreat Refreshes Behavioral, Social Sciences

Dr. Christine Bachrach, acting director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, wanted just one thing out of the first-ever day-long retreat for NIH’s widely dispersed community of behavioral and social scientists, held Nov. 12 at Natcher Bldg.


December 12, 2008
CBT4CBT
New Hope for Treatment of Addiction


Drug addiction is notoriously tough to treat, but now research is showing a fresh way to tackle the problem. It’s called computer-based training for cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT4CBT)


OBSSR’s Mabry Wins with Systems Analysis Team


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Calendar

January 28-29, 2009 Dissemination and Implementation Conference


February 9, 2009, ­ 10:00 – 11:00 AM
Stigma: Lessons & New Directions from a Decade of Research on Mental Illness


July 12-24, 2009
OBSSR/NIH Summer Training Institute on Randomized Clinical Trials Involving Behavioral Interventions


May 3-8, 2009
Institute on Systems Science and Health



May 22-25, 2009
Gene-Environment Interplay in Stress and Health at the Association for Psychological Science 21st Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA

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Videocasts


The Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) sponsors several Lectures and Seminars covering topics related to the behavioral and social sciences. Many OBSSR sponsored lectures are videocast and available on the BSSR Lecture Series videocast page: http://videocast.nih.gov/PastEvents.asp?c=82. The videocasts are free of charge, open to the general public and posted approximately one week after the lecture concludes.

To learn more please visit the Web page at http://www.nih.gov/news/radio/nihpodcast.htm

Behavioral and Social Sciences

Life-span Development of Expertise, Friday, October 24, 2008

Neil Charness, PhD, William G. Chase Professor of Psychology, Florida State University
Total Running Time: 01:10:24

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Computer-based Training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT4CBT): New Directions for Behavioral Therapies Research, Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Kathleen M. Carroll, Ph.D., Yale University
Total Running Time: 01:14:17

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Looking for Causes in All the Wrong Places: Upstream Social Determinants of Downstream Health Disparities, Thursday, June 19, 2008

Dr. John B. McKinlay of the New England Research Institute
Total Running Time: 01:17:39

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Making The Business Case For Value-based Health Care Purchasing, Thursday, May 15, 2008

Dr. Ronald C. Kessler of Harvard Medical School
Total Running Time: 01:12:25

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Systems Science and Health

Person-to-Person Spread of Health Behaviors in a Large Social Network, Thursday, March 20, 2008

Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, Harvard Medical School
Total Running Time: 01:07:19

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Systems Methodologies for Solving Real-World Problems: Applications in Public Health Thursday, March 22, 2007

Patty Mabry, Ph.D., Bobby Milstein, Ph.D., M.P.H., John Sterman, Ph.D. and Ken McLeroy, Ph.D.
Total Running Time: 02:08:59

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**Sorry, slides not available for this lecture
Complex Systems Approaches to Population Health - Day 1 , Wednesday, May 30, 2007

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Total Running Time: 06:16:19

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Complex Systems Approaches to Population Health - Day 2 , Thursday, May 31, 2007

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Total Running Time: 06:25:38

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Systems Network Analysis: Using Connections and Structures to Understand and Change Health Behaviors, Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Katherine Faust, University of California and Thomas Valente, University of Southern California
Total Running Time: 02:01:33

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**Slides and other reference info available as .pdf files here.
Agent Based Modeling: Population Health from the Bottom Up, Friday, July 13, 2007

Joshua Epstein and Michael Macy
Total Running Time: 01:57:55

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**Slides available as .pdf files at here.
System Dynamics Modeling: Population Flows, Feedback Loops and Health, Thursday, August 30, 2007

Jack Homer, Homer Consulting and George Richardson, State University of New York
Total Running Time: 02:04:40

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**Slides available as .pdf files at here.
Modeling Social Behavior (Day 1), Wednesday, November 26, 2008

NIGMS and OBSSR
Total Running Time: 240 minutes

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Modeling Social Behavior (Day 2), Wednesday, November 26, 2008

NIGMS and OBSSR
Total Running Time: 570 minutes

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