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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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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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Summer Institute on Design and Conduct of Randomized Clinical Trials Involving Behavioral Interventions

July 11 to 23, 2004

List of Lectures


Overview of Randomized Control Trials Peter Kaufmann
A Selected History of Behavioral Randomized Clinical Trials and What We Learned Lynda Powell
The Diabetes Prevention Program Rena Wing
Basic Design Carlos Mendes de Leon
Selection of Test Measurements and Instruments for RCTs William Chaplin
External and Internal Validity Karina Davidson
Randomization and Unit of Randomization Michael A. Proschan
Issues in Grantsmanship Ronald P. Abeles
Control Groups, Blindness/Masking, Behavioral "Placebo" Francis Keefe
RCT Designs for Dementia: Lessons from the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study Mary Sano
Practical Applications of Measurement to Clinical Trials William Chaplin
Building, Leading, and Maintaining Effective Research Teams Judith Ockene
Power Analysis and Sample Size Michael Proschan
Hypothesis Specification: Alpha and Omega of Scientific Inquiry Carlos Mendes de Leon
Survival Analysis Michael Proschan
Diaries in Clinical Trials: When and How? Arthur Stone
Treatment Implementation Bonnie Spring
Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria Nina Schooler
Practical Clinical Trials: Designing Trials for the Real World Patrick McGrath
Missing Data: A Smoking Cessation Example Bonnie Spring
Multi-arm Trials: Pharmocotherapy and Behavioral Intervention Francois Lesperance
Adjusting for Covariates, Mediation and Moderation Walter Ambrosius
Ethics of Randomized Control Trials Jonathan D. Moreno
Anatomy of a Clinical Trial: Postmortem of the ENRICHED Study James A. Blumenthal
Mixed Effects, Growth Curves, and Longitudinal Models Walter Ambrosius