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Behavioral Science Central in NIH Disparities Workshop
The NIH Virtual Disparities Workshop, held November 9–10, aimed to bring together mental health disparities researchers to present their work and share their approaches to understanding health disparities.
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RDoC at 10: Sharpening the Science of Mental Health Disorders
Launched in 2009, the RDoC framework integrates many levels of information spanning the full range of human behavior to better understand the nature of mental health and illness.
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Access One of the Largest Health Data Resources Through the NIH All of Us Research Program
Researchers looking to access one of the largest biomedical and behavioral data resources can apply for access to the Research Hub of the All of Us Program, an initiative of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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Register and Report: Challenges in Bringing Basic Experimental Studies with Humans to ClinicalTrials.gov
While NIH positioned this change as part of a larger effort to increase registering and reporting of federally funded research studies, the Association for Psychological Science—among numerous other scientific and academic organizations, and thousands of individual scientists—was vocal in opposing the policy change as the best way of achieving that goal.
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NIAAA Encourages Research on Alcohol’s Effect on Aging
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) has issued a Notice of Special Interest inviting grant applications proposing to research the life and health span effects of alcohol in the context of level of consumption, consumption pattern, and duration of consumption.
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NIH Funding for Research on the Societal Implications of Genomics Research
As technology and accessibility increase the rate at which people have their genomes sequenced, the need for understanding societal implications of such research also increases.
