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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 Spring97


Lectures and Seminars

National Institutes of Health
Behavioral and Social Sciences Seminar Series
Spring 1997

July 11, 1997
Social Inequalities in Aging and Health
James House, Ph.D.
University of Michigan

June 27, 1997
Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes and the “Immigrant Menace”
Alan M. Kraut, Ph.D.
American University

May 29, 1997
Social Relationships, Connectedness and Health: The Bonds that Heal
Lisa F. Berkman, Ph.D.
Harvard School of Public Health

April 28, 1997
Psychosocial and Behavioral Influences
on Clinical Diagnostic Decisions

John B. McKinlay, Ph.D
New England Research Institute

March 31, 1997
Role of Taste and Smell in Health-Related Behaviors
Susan Schiffman, Ph.D
Duke University Medical Center

February 20, 1997
Fetal Behavioral Development
William Smotherman, Ph.D
State University of New York, Binghampton

January 21, 1997
Neural Plasticity: Implications for Behavioral Development
William Greenough, Ph.D
University of Illinois, Urbana