Internet-based health interventions can reduce insomnia and work-related stress
Sleep—it’s a precious commodity. It’s also a basic necessity for good mental and physical health. Considered a critically important process for brain and body recovery, sleep allows the brain to rest and restore ...
Human communication research: Because interventions and questionnaires consist of symbolic behavior
By William Elwood, Ph.D. In the beginning was the word … and that has never ceased to be the case. Spoken or unspoken, words reign supreme, as humans are such only as they communicate. Symbolic behavior ...
Women in science: Tales and trajectories panel will honor Matilda White Riley’s legacy of learning, discerning and digging deeper
By Wendy Anson, Ph.D. The 2016 Matilda White Riley Day will feature a distinguished panel of women whose research in the behavioral sciences and public health epitomize Matilda White Riley’s spirit ...
Promoting practical adherence interventions at the patient, provider, and system levels
There seems to be a pill for just about everything these days. Pills can help you lose weight, lower your cholesterol, treat depression, and even prevent HIV transmission. But just because there’s a pill for everything ...
President Obama to honor nation’s leading scientists and innovators
Today, the White House announced the latest recipients of the National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation—our Nation’s highest honors ...
Behavioral and social science in medical education: Patients, doctors, and communities
By Pablo Joo, M.D. The Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein) was one of nine medical schools to originally receive funding from the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) to integrate ...
eHealth interventions deliver wake-up call on tanning beds
By Wendy Anson, Ph.D. Are young women who are exposed to web-based anti-tanning interventions more or less likely to expose themselves to the harmful UVA rays found in tanning beds? ...
The Science of Child Safety
The Science of Child Safety by Dr. David Schwebel of The University of Alabama at Birmingham ...
Can active video games get young people up and moving?
By Wendy Anson, Ph.D. Can video game play help transform millennial couch potatoes into active young adults? According to a recent study, researchers were able to get young players cavorting within a mystical, fantasy ...
Researchers identify genetic links to educational attainment
An NIH-funded study examines genetic influences on behavior. An international team of researchers has identified 74 areas of the human genome associated with educational attainment. It is well known that social and other environmental factors ...
Bidirectional mHealth intervention gets HIV substance abusers on the right track
By Wendy Anson, Ph.D. How does a mere text messaging application sent to unemployed, isolated, non-adhering HIV substance users get them to comply with health care visits and drug prescriptions? It is known that ...
Microrandomized trials: Just-in-time mHealth designs get granular
By Wendy Anson, Ph.D. “Pull” mHealth portable and wearable devices let us choose the health interventions we want and deploy them from wherever we happen to be. Now, with the advent of increasingly powerful sensors ...
Still time to help shape OBSSR 2016–2020 Strategic Plan
The goal was ambitious: Develop a strategic plan in less than 10 months. But the need and the eagerness of staff and stakeholders alike made it clear it would be done. Today, the NIH ...
