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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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Home > News and Events > BSSRLectures Spring06


Lectures and Seminars

National Institutes of Health
Behavioral and Social Sciences Seminar Series
Spring 2006

Mind and Body Back Together Again:
Brain Serotonin and Cardiovascular Risk
Stephen Manuck, Ph.D.

University of Pittsburgh

April 21, 2006 3:00 – 4:00 PM

Neuroscience Building, 6001 Executive Blvd.
Rockville MD, Room A

Deadly Inequality:
Uninsured Ethnic Minorities Living with Life-threatening Illness


Gaylene Becker, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco

May 16, 2006, 3:00 – 4:00 PM

Neuroscience Building, 6001 Executive Blvd.
Rockville MD, Room C

How Children Shape Language:
Language Acquisition and Emergence of Signed and Spoken Languages

Elissa Newport, Ph.D.

University of Rochester

June 15, 2006, 3:00 – 4:00 PM

Neuroscience Building, 6001 Executive Blvd.
Rockville MD, Room C

Winter 2006 Lectures

Organized by the
NIH Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Coordinating Committee

Supported by the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research

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Educational Objectives: At the end of this lecture or symposium, participants will be able to understand key concepts and issues; become familiar with methodological approaches and problems to research on the subject matter; and understand better the relevance of behavioral and social research to the NIH's mission to improve the health of the American people.

Target Audience: Primarily, the audience is NIH employees, mainly scientific, in intramural and extramural programs. Secondarily the audience is the wider non-NIH community. The speakers are instructed to lecture at the "educated layperson" level, assuming that the audience will have at least a college education and most likely have graduate level training. Speakers are asked to explain key concepts.

Reasonable Accommodation (Disabilities): Sign Language Interpreters will be provided. Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation to participate in this lecture should contact Ms. Dana Sampson, OBSSR/OD, 301-402-1146 or the Federal Relay (1-800-877-8339).

Parkingat the Neuroscience Center is available to NIH employees and the general publicat a modest fee. For the location of public parking on the NIH Bethesda Campus, see http://dtts.ors.od.nih.gov/parking/parking_info.htm. Please note that parking at NIH can be difficult!