Demystifying Medicine — Thomas Insel and George Koob discuss mental health and alcohol use
Dr. Insel, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist, is a national leader in mental health research, policy, and technology. He served as director of the National Institute of Mental Health from 2002 to 2015. Upon leaving the NIH, Insel co-founded Mindstrong Health, a start-up assisting people with serious mental illness; served as a special advisor to California Governor Gavin Newsom; co-founded Humanest Care, a therapeutic online community for recovery; and in 2022, joined Vanna Health as a co-founder and executive chair. Dr. Koob, an internationally recognized expert on alcohol and stress and the neurobiology of alcohol and dr...
Source: Videocast - All Events - April 9, 2024 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

Open Session of the 86th National Advisory Council for Complementary and Integrative Health (NACCIH) – January 19, 2024.
The Open Session of the 86th meeting of the National Advisory Council for Complementary and Integrative Health (NACCIH) will be held on Friday, January 19, 2024, as a virtual meeting. The Open Session agenda includes presentations by: i) Helene Langevin, MD, Director of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), on the status of NCCIH; ii) Karina Walters, PhD, Director of the National Institutes of Health Tribal Health Research Office and Daniel Dickerson, DO, Associate Research Psychiatrist, Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, University of California, Los Angeles on Native American Traditional...
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 26, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

Studies In Substance Use Disorders With A Particular Focus On The Current Opioid Pandemic; Contemporaneous Opioid Pandemic
Eric C. Strain, MD The George E. Bigelow Professor Director, Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Substance Abuse Treatment and Research Executive Vice Chair, JHB Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Johns Hopkins University School of MedicineFor more information go tohttps://clinicalcenter.nih.gov/about/news/grcurrent.htmlAir date: 1/3/2024 12:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 20, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

A Vision Engaging Pharmacokinetic Strategies to Treat Substance Abuse Disorders and Overdose
Speaker Kim Janda, Ph.D., is Ely R. Callaway Jr. Professor of Chemistry Professor; Director, Worm Institute for Research& Medicine; Skaggs Scholar, The Skaggs Institute For Chemical Biology Department of Chemistry, Scripps Research. Janda's work encompasses the following areas: the development of methods for the detection of and protection against chemical/biological warfare agents, the preparation of combinatorial chemical libraries, the design/synthesis and evaluation of catalytic antibodies and enzyme inhibitors, solid-phase organic synthesis, antibody/peptide phage display libraries, the application of immunopharmacoth...
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 3, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

Joint Meeting of the National Advisory Councils of NIAAA, NCI and NIDA - May 2021
Discussion.Air date: 5/12/2021 11:00:00 AM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - April 13, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

9th Joint Meeting (8th CRAN) of the National Advisory Councils of NIAAA, NCI and NIDA
Discussion.Air date: 5/12/2021 11:00:00 AM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 30, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

Health IT can help combat mental health crisis
Dr. Nishi Rawat, cofounder of OpenBeds, an addiction treatment connection service, talks about the mental health and substance abuse disorder crisis and the role health IT can play in managing it. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - March 2, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video

Substance Abuse Prevention for Youth in Indigenous Communities
WebinarAir date: 10/8/2020 1:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 10, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

Sexuality and stigma: culture, identity, and mental health among high-risk men who have sex with men
Globally, gay and bisexual men (GBM) face great health risks as well as social challenges due to the stigma associated with their sexual orientation and/or identity. The global literature reveals that stigmatization directed towards GBM result in minority stress with detrimental effects on their mental and sexual health, including anxiety, depression and/or suicide ideation or attempts, often coupled with substance abuse, alcohol misuse, and risky sexual practices in a syndemic manner. These phenomena are further magnified for GBM who sex sell to other men. This talk will cover a program of research on the sexual health am...
Source: Videocast - All Events - July 2, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

RFA-AT-19-006: HEAL: Behavioral Research to Improve MAT (BRIM): Behavioral and Social Interventions to Improve Adherence to Medication Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorders (R61/R33) - Technical Assistance VideoCast
This technical assistance VideoCast is designed to aid potential grantees for RFA-AT-19-006: Behavioral Research to Improve MAT (BRIM): Behavioral and Social Interventions to Improve Adherence to Medication Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorders (R61/R33). The purpose of this FOA is to solicit applications to examine the impact of adding behavioral and/or social interventions to Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) for persons with Opioid Use Disorders (OUD). Applications are encouraged for fully powered effectiveness and/or implementation studies that will examine whether combining MAT with behavioral and/or social in...
Source: Videocast - All Events - January 15, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

CANCELLED - RFA-AT-19-006: HEAL: Behavioral Research to Improve MAT (BRIM)
RFA-AT-19-006: HEAL: Behavioral Research to Improve MAT (BRIM): Behavioral and Social Interventions to Improve Adherence to Medication Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorders (R61/R33) - Technical Assistance VideoCast This technical assistance VideoCast is designed to aid potential grantees for RFA-AT-19-006: Behavioral Research to Improve MAT (BRIM): Behavioral and Social Interventions to Improve Adherence to Medication Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorders (R61/R33). The purpose of this FOA is to solicit applications to examine the impact of adding behavioral and/or social interventions to Medication Assisted T...
Source: Videocast - All Events - January 14, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

RFA-AT-19-006: HEAL: Behavioral Research to Improve MAT (BRIM): Behavioral and Social Interventions to Improve Adherence to Medication Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorders (R61/R33) - Technical Assistance VideoCast
This technical assistance VideoCast is designed to aid potential grantees for RFA-AT-19-006: Behavioral Research to Improve MAT (BRIM): Behavioral and Social Interventions to Improve Adherence to Medication Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorders (R61/R33). The purpose of this FOA is to solicit applications to examine the impact of adding behavioral and/or social interventions to Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) for persons with Opioid Use Disorders (OUD). Applications are encouraged for fully powered effectiveness and/or implementation studies that will examine whether combining MAT with behavioral and/or social in...
Source: Videocast - All Events - January 2, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

NIAAA Mark Keller Honorary Lecture: Prevalence of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: Characteristics and Correlates
NIAAA Mark Keller Honorary Lecture Phil A. May, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized expert in fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD), with a distinguished career spanning nearly 50 years. By studying the adverse effects of prenatal exposure to alcohol, his work has advanced greatly our understanding of the prevalence, characteristics, etiology, diagnosis, and prevention of FAS and FASD. Dr. May is Professor in the Department of Nutrition of the Gillings School of Global Public Health and the Nutrition Research Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Professor Emer...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 26, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

Sexual & Gender Minority Health Research: (1) Informatics and Health Policy: Building the Evidence to Improve Transgender Health and (2) Reducing Health Disparities Among Sexual and Gender Minority Individuals
The NIH Sexual& Gender Minority Research Office is pleased to announce our inaugural Investigator Award Program. The Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) Investigator Award Program was developed to recognize early-stage investigators who have made substantial, outstanding research contributions in areas related to SGM health and who are poised to become future leaders or are already leading the field of SGM health research. Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld is a board-certified physician anesthesiologist with a background in clinical research, advocacy, and health care policy. He currently is a professor at the Vanderbilt University School ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 18, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

Online access to mental health therapy  – TAO Connect
TAO Connect, a small business funded by the National Science Foundation, provides online mental health therapy. The company uses artificial intelligence to create low-cost, accessible, software-based practice tools for treatment for anxiety, depression, substance abuse, resiliency and pain ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - May 17, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: video