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December 12, 2008
Retreat Refreshes Behavioral, Social Sciences

Dr. Christine Bachrach

December 12, 2008
CBT4CBT
New Hope for Treatment of Addiction

Dr. Kathleen Carroll

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

OBSSR’s Mabry Wins with Systems Analysis Team

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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What men can learn from women: Tough-guy attitude leads to gender health disparity
December 29, 2008 by Stephen Smith, The Boston Globe (Boston.com)

They are icons of American masculinity. The athlete, banged and bruised, who plays through pain. The soldier, wounded and bedraggled, who battles on, spurning entreaties to seek help. The male driver, lost and confused, who refuses to ask for directions. Continued…

Retreat Refreshes Behavioral, Social Sciences
December 12, 2008 NIH Record

Dr. Richard Suzman (r), director of the Behavioral and Social Science Program
at NIA, moderates the panel discussion during OBSSR’s Nov. 12 retreat.

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. “We have a gold mine of behavioral and social science research talent at NIH, but we are scattered and very busy. We need strong connecting networks to find out who has what kind of expertise, and what the opportunities are,” she said. “I hope the retreat empowers and connects the field. I hope attendees find collaborations and conversations they need to do their jobs effectively. This is a time of great opportunity and challenge. Behavior is a critical issue in diseases that drive up health care costs and kill people.” Continued…

CBT4CBT New Hope for Treatment of Addiction
December 12, 2008 NIH Record

Dr. Kathleen Carroll

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), an innovative program developed by Yale University School of Medicine’s Dr. Kathleen Carroll and her colleagues. She recently visited NIH to discuss her research with a full house at Executive Plaza’s Neuroscience Bldg. Her talk was part of OBSSR’s Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Lecture Series.

“When I began [my research, funded by NIDA],” Carroll said, “it wasn’t clear which therapies were effective or how they worked.

We had to get very serious if it was going to be taken seriously in some of the same ways as pharmacotherapy.”

Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is a kind of “talk therapy” that focuses on patterns of thinking, the beliefs that underlie them and how they influence behavior and emotions. It tends to be goal-directed rather than open-ended. Continued…

3rd Annual Matilda White Riley Lecture Looking for Causes in all the Wrong Places
June 19, 2008 NIH Videocast

Dr. John McKinlay (l)
and Dr. Christine Bachrach (r)

Upstream Social Determinants of Downstream Health Disparities
John McKinlay, Ph.D., New England Research Institutes
Building 1, Wilson Hall Continued…

Health Disparity Paper Spurs Debate
January 25, 2008 NIH Record

When JAMA published an article in May 2006 reporting that Americans in late middle age are “sicker” than their English counterparts, there was a swift, intense reaction. “How could this be?” wrote a columnist in the Washington Post. “The British diet is terrible.” And, “Forget vitamin D: The English rarely see the sun in a dank climate where the national dress is a raincoat.” But according to Dr. James Smith, a study coauthor and senior economist with the RAND Corp. who shared this quote in a recent presentation here, the findings are true. In fact, even as critics have posed potential issues with the report, further study has only made the case for the article stronger, Smith believes. Continued…

OBSSR Holds First Dissemination Conference
January 11, 2008 NIH Record

The Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research recently hosted a conference on Building the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in the Service of Public Health. Held in partnership with NIMH, NCI, NIDA, NIAAA and NICHD, the 2-day conference gathered Continued…an 500 people attending in person and hundreds Continued…ewing the simultaneous webcast. Continued…

Cancer patients find strength in numbers
January, 7 2008 By Marilyn Elias, USA TODAY

There's wide agreement that good mental health and relationships can lengthen a person's life by motivating more healthful behavior, says David Abrams, who heads the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research at the National Institutes of Health. Continued…

OBSSR's Mabry Wins with Systems Analysis Team
October 3, 2007 NIH Record

The CDC-NIH System Dynamics Collaborative for Disease Control and Prevention recently received the inaugural Applied Systems Thinking Prize awarded by the Applied Systems Thinking Institute (ASysT). The nine-member winning team includes Dr. Patricia Mabry of NIH’s Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research. Continued…

Benner Named OBSSR Communications Specialist
October 5, 2007 NIH Record

Ann Benner has been named communications specialist for the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research. In this newly created position, she will be responsible for developing a strategic plan to best communicate the cutting-edge research and discoveries in the behavioral and social sciences. Continued…

Meissner Joins OBSSR as Senior Advisor
October 5, 2007 NIH Record

Dr. Helen Meissner has been named senior advisor in the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research. She will be responsible for social, public health and population science-based initiatives. Continued…

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