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Massive NIH Effort to Understand Substance Use in Adolescents
APS Fellow BJ Casey of Weill Medical College of Cornell University is among the researchers receiving funding from 13 grants announced by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) in September. The grants, which are
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The Science of Behavior Change
This year marked the official launch of the next 5-year phase of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) program called the Science of Behavior Change (SOBC). Many institutes and centers across the NIH participate in
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Interdisciplinary Brain Research Gets Major Support from Kavli Foundation
The Kavli Foundation and its university partners have announced the commitment of more than $100 million in new funds to enable interdisciplinary research on the brain and brain-related disorders, including as traumatic brain injury (TBI)
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A Seal of Approval for Clinical Treatments
One of the major changes in clinical psychology during the past decade has been the growing call for — and the rise of — empirically supported treatments (ESTs). With this change has come a need
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Thoughts on the Future of Data Sharing
A number of policy changes are occurring that could profoundly affect our science, perhaps in unanticipated ways. Unfortunately, many of these changes are being formulated without sufficient input from psychological scientists, even though components of
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How to Study the Brain
The Chronicle of Higher Education: The human brain contains roughly 86 billion neurons and trillions, perhaps hundreds of trillions, of intricate interconnections among those neurons. There are hundreds, maybe thousands of different kinds of cells