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
147th Meeting of the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse
The Council meets three times a year, usually in February, May, and September for 1 day. Typically, the first part of the meeting is a two-hour session devoted to reviewing grant applications, and this is closed to the public. The second part is the open session, and issues such as training, research dissemination, programs, and policy are discussed. The NIDA Director presents scientific and administrative topics in the Director's Report. Council subcommittees report on their progress, and staff and other speakers also present various topics. Please see earlier Council agendas for an appreciation of the breadth of issues c...
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 8, 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
146th Meeting, National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse
The Council meets three times a year, usually in February, May, and September for 1 day. Typically, the first part of the meeting is a two-hour session devoted to reviewing grant applications, and this is closed to the public. The second part is the open session, and issues such as training, research dissemination, programs, and policy are discussed. The NIDA Director presents scientific and administrative topics in the Director's Report. Council subcommittees report on their progress, and staff and other speakers also present various topics. Please see earlier Council agendas for an appreciation of the breadth of issues c...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 8, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse - September 2023
The Council meets three times a year, usually in February, May, and September for 1 day. Typically, the first part of the meeting is a two-hour session devoted to reviewing grant applications, and this is closed to the public. The second part is the open session, and issues such as training, research dissemination, programs, and policy are discussed. The NIDA Director presents scientific and administrative topics in the Director's Report. Council subcommittees report on their progress, and staff and other speakers also present various topics. Please see earlier Council agendas for an appreciation of the breadth of issues c...
Source: Videocast - All Events - August 8, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
CRAN Meeting - May 2023
110TH CRAN and 11TH JOINT MEETING OF THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM, NATIONAL CANCER ADVISORY BOARD AND THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ON DRUG ABUSEAir date: 5/10/2023 10:00:00 AM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - April 12, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse - May 2023
The Council meets three times a year, usually in February, May, and September for 1 day. Typically, the first part of the meeting is devoted to reviewing grant applications, and this is closed to the public. The second part is the open session, and issues such as training, research dissemination, programs, and policy are discussed. The NIDA Director presents scientific and administrative topics in the Director's Report. Council subcommittees report on their progress, and staff and other speakers also present various topics. Please see earlier Council agendas for an appreciation of the breadth of issues covered by the Natio...
Source: Videocast - All Events - April 12, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
144th Meeting of the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse
he Council meets three times a year, usually in February, May, and September for 1 day. Typically, the first part of the meeting is devoted to reviewing grant applications, and this is closed to the public. The second part is the open session, and issues such as training, research dissemination, programs, and policy are discussed. The NIDA Director presents scientific and administrative topics in the Director's Report. Council subcommittees report on their progress, and staff and other speakers also present various topics. Please see earlier Council agendas for an appreciation of the breadth of issues covered by the Nation...
Source: Videocast - All Events - April 3, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse - February 2023
143rd Meeting of the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse. The Council meets three times a year, usually in February, May, and September for 1 day. Typically, the first part of the meeting is a two-hour session devoted to reviewing grant applications, and this is closed to the public. The second part is the open session, and issues such as training, research dissemination, programs, and policy are discussed. The NIDA Director presents scientific and administrative topics in the Director's Report. Council subcommittees report on their progress, and staff and other speakers also present various topics. Please see earlier ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 20, 2022 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse - September 2022
The Council meets three times a year, usually in February, May, and September for 1 day. Typically, the first part of the meeting is a two-hour session devoted to reviewing grant applications, and this is closed to the public. The second part is the open session, and issues such as training, research dissemination, programs, and policy are discussed. The NIDA Director presents scientific and administrative topics in the Director's Report. Council subcommittees report on their progress, and staff and other speakers also present various topics. Please see earlier Council agendas for an appreciation of the breadth of issues c...
Source: Videocast - All Events - August 26, 2022 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Meeting of the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse - September 2022
The Council meets three times a year, usually in February, May, and September for 1 day. Typically, the first part of the meeting is a two-hour session devoted to reviewing grant applications, and this is closed to the public. The second part is the open session, and issues such as training, research dissemination, programs, and policy are discussed. The NIDA Director presents scientific and administrative topics in the Director's Report. Council subcommittees report on their progress, and staff and other speakers also present various topics. Please see earlier Council agendas for an appreciation of the breadth of issues c...
Source: Videocast - All Events - August 11, 2022 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Can a Controversial Tree Help End the Opioid Crisis?
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) Integrative Medicine Research Lecture SeriesKratom (botanical nameMitragyna speciosa Korth) is a tree in the coffee family (Rubiaceae) indigenous to Southeast Asia. Its leaves are the source of a Thai traditional drug, kratom, that possesses unique pharmacologic actions — e.g., stimulant actions like those of the coca plant plus depressant ones like those of opium. Traditionally, in its countries of origin, kratom extract has been used as an opium substitute; in Thailand, it has been used as a treatment for addiction.Recently, human case reports have increa...
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 16, 2022 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
NIDA Advisory Council on Drug Abuse - February 2022
The Council meets three times a year, usually in February, May, and September for 1 day. Typically, the first part of the meeting is a two-hour session devoted to reviewing grant applications, and this is closed to the public. The second part is the open session, and issues such as training, research dissemination, programs, and policy are discussed. The NIDA Director presents scientific and administrative topics in the Director's Report. Council subcommittees report on their progress, and staff and other speakers also present various topics. Please see earlier Council agendas for an appreciation of the breadth of issues c...
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 23, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Reading Between the Tweets: Social Technologies for Predicting and Changing Health Behavior
This talk is part of the Integrative Medicine Research Lecture Series presented by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health.
Social technologies — for example, social media, mobile apps, internet searching, and wearable sensors — and the data they produce are increasingly being used as tools in public health research and practice. More than half of the world (4.5 billion people) is using social media sites to create, share, and discuss content. Social media users are not just sharing trivial facts, but publicly telling the world personal things about their thoughts, behaviors, and clinical diagnos...
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 3, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
