Congratulations to our 11th NIH Matilda White Riley Distinguished Lecturer and our Early Stage Investigator Paper Awardees. ...
Opioid Crisis Requires Social and Behavioral Research Solutions
Each day, more Americans die from drug overdoses (175) than from motor vehicle accidents (110). Many of these overdoses are accidental, and some are intentional, but nearly all are the result of social and behavioral fac ...
Social and Behavioral Sciences Crucial to Treating Autism
April is National Autism Awareness Month. Autism or Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a complex neurological and developmental disorder marked by challenges with social interaction and communication that begin in early ...
Giving Grant Applications a Second Chance
NIH receives many meritorious grant applications for which there are inadequate resources to fund. Thanks to the Online Partnership to Accelerate Research (OnPAR), there is now a second chance at funding for these appli ...
Behavioral and Social Sciences are at the Heart of the Risk Factors for Heart Disease
February 2 is National Wear Red Day, kicking off American Heart Month. We join our colleagues at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) in The Heart Truth program to increase awareness that heart disease i ...
New Year Brings New Opportunities to Communicate Effectively about Our Science
If you offered people on the street $100 to name a living scientist or an institution where medical or health research is conducted, most could not. A recently released Research! America nationwide survey on Americans’ ...
An Enjoyable and Informative Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Festival
On December 8, 2017, we held our second annual NIH Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Festival on the NIH campus. This one day festival, a combined effort of the NIH Behavioral and Social Sciences Coordinating Commi ...
Humans are Predictably Irrational: The Influence of Nobel Laureate Richard Thaler and Behavioral Economics
Suppose you are bitten by a spider and the chance of death from the bite is quite small (1 in 100,000), how much would you pay to receive the antidote? Now suppose instead you are recruited to participate in a study in ...
Behavioral and Social Sciences Research at the NIH Intramural Research Festival
Some may be surprised to learn that there is a small but thriving cadre of behavioral and social sciences researchers in the NIH intramural program. At this year’s NIH Intramural Research Festival, held September 13-15, ...
Clinical Trials Policies: A Rose by Any Other Name
In a blog last October, I described a series of policies recently released by the NIH to improve transparency and our stewardship of clinical trials. In that blog, I noted that the definition of a clinical trial was bei ...
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