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December 12, 2008
Retreat Refreshes Behavioral, Social Sciences
Dr. Christine Bachrach
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
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
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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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Deborah H. Olster, Ph.D.
Deputy Director
Deborah Olster is Deputy Director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR)
at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Previously, she was Professor of Psychology at
the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she maintained an active research
program focused on the neuroendocrine control of reproduction, with an emphasis on
reproductive behaviors. With support from the NIH and the National Science Foundation (NSF), she has investigated
seasonal and pubertal transitions in reproductive function, sexual motivation,
and reproductive dysfunction related to stress, obesity and under-nutrition, using
a variety of animal models. She has also collaborated on research projects related
to stress hormones and human behaviors, the regulation of food intake and body temperature
in laboratory animals and color perception and seasonal sexual displays in Australian bowerbirds.
Dr. Olster earned a PhD in Physiology from The University of Michigan, after which she
did postdoctoral work in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University and in the Department of
Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She was an American
Association for the Advancement of Science/NSF Science and Technology
Policy Fellow in 2000-2001, where contributed to the development of NSF
research programs in Cognitive Neuroscience and the Science of Learning. Since joining OBSSR in
2002, she has been active in several trans-NIH activities, including the
NIH Roadmap for Medical Research and the Genes and Environment Initiative, developing programs
at the intersection of the biological, behavioral and social sciences.
Contact Details
Email:
olsterd@od.nih.gov
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