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Meetings and Seminars 1999-2009:


Date Time Location Topic Speaker
04/28/09 3:00-4:00 p.m.
Natcher Center,
 Balcony A

Aging Well: Promoting Cognition and Functional Health
 Margie Lachman, PhD
03/18/09 3:00-4:00 p.m. Neuroscience Bldg., Rm. C  Risk, Resilience, and Gene X Environment Interactions in Primates   Stephen J. Suomi, PhD 
02/09/09 10:00-11:00 a.m. Bldg. 1, Wilson Hall  Stigma: Lessons and New Directions from a Decade of Research on Mental Illness  Bernice A. Pescosolido, PhD 
01/22/09 3:00-4:00 p.m. Neuroscience Bldg., Rm. A  Sex, Drugs, and Viral Load: Integrating HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment   Seth Kalichman, PhD 
12/11/08 3:00-4:00 p.m. Neuroscience Bldg., Rm. C  Emerging Balance between Reward Systems and Risk Taking in Adolescence: Implications for Developing Substance Abuse  LInda C. Mayes, MD 
11/13/08 3:00-4:00 p.m. Neuroscience Bldg., Rm. A  Welfare Reform: Long-term Implications for the Develop.m.ent of Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults   LIndsay Chase-Lansdale, PhD 
10/24/08 3:00-4:00 p.m. Neuroscience Bldg., Rm. C  Life-span Develop.m.ent of Expertise   Neil Charness, PhD 
09/17/08 3:00-4:00 p.m. Neuroscience Bldg., Rm. D  Computer-based Training in Cognitive Therapy: New Directions for Behavioral Therapies Research   Kathleen M. Carroll, PhD 
06/19/08 3:00-4:30 p.m. Building 1, Wilson Hall  Looking for the Causes in All the Wrong Places: Upstream Social Determinants of Downstream Health Disparities   John B. McKinlay, Ph.D. 
05/15/08 3:00-4:00 p.m. Neuroscience Center, Rm. C., 6001 Executive Blvd  Making the Business Case for Value-based Health Care Purchasing   Ronald C. Kessler, Ph.D. 
04/11/08 3:00-4:00 p.m. Neuroscience Center, Rm. C., 6001 Executive Blvd  Marital Relationships and Well-being: An examination of African-American Couples  Chalandra M. Bryant, Ph.D. 
03/20/08 3:00-4:00 p.m. Neuroscience Center, Rm. C., 6001 Executive Blvd  Person-to-Person Spread of Health Behaviors in a Large Social Network  Nicholas Christakis, MD, MPH, PhD 
01/25/08 3:00-4:00 p.m. Neuroscience Bldg., Rm. C, 6001 Executive Blvd.  Social Stratification and Health: Is There a Develop.m.ental Biology of Misfortune?  W. Thomas Boyce, MD 
12/04/07 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Neuroscience Bldg., 6001 Executive Blvd, Rm D  The Image of Complexity: fMRI Studies of Problem Solving   John R. Anderson, Ph.D. 
11/13/07 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. Natcher Conference Center (Bldg 45), Room E1/E2  Are Americans Really Sicker than the English?   James P. Smith, Ph.D. 
10/25/07 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Neuroscience Bldg., 6001 Executive Blvd, Rm. C  Psychological Vitality from Age 70 to 100: Costs and Benefits for Health   Jacqui Smith, Ph.D. 
09/13/07 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Neuroscience Bldg, 6001 Executive Blvd., Rm. C  The Emergence of Populomics from the Convergence of Science and the Divergence in Healthcare   M. Christopher Gibbons, MD 
06/06/07 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. Wilson Hall, Bldg. 1  2nd Annual Matilda White Riley Lecture: Integrative Health - A Pathway Approach   Carol D. Ryff, PhD, and Burton H. Singer, PhD. 
05/17/07 3-4:00 p.m. Neuroscience Bldg., 6001 Executive Blvd., Rm. D  The Sociocultural Context of Sex Research in the Era of Gender and NIH Risk Taking   Gail E. Wyatt, PhD 
04/25/07 3-4:00 p.m. Neuroscience Bldg., 6001 Executive Blvd., Rm. C  Translating Research Perspectives on Enhancing Exposure-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy   Michael Otto, PhD 
03/21/07 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Neuroscience Building, Room C  Promoting Healthy Aging: Exploring the Interface between People, Places, and Behavior   Abby C. King, Ph.D. 
02/22/07 3-4:00 p.m. Neuroscience Bldg., 6001 Executive Blvd., Rm. D  Self Regulation and Control of Chronic Disease  Noreen M. Clark, PhD. 
01/17/07 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Neursocience Building, Room C  Can the Social Capital of an Aging Society Improve Health in Aging and Decrease Health Disparities?   Linda Fried, MD, MPH 
11/20/06 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Neuroscience Bldg., 6001 Executive Blvd, Rm. C, Rockville MD  Comparative and Develop.m.ental Approaches to Uncovering the Origins of the Adult Mathematical Mind   Elizabeth M. Brannon, Ph.D. 
10/30/06 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Neuroscience Bldg., 6001 Executive Blvd, Rm. C, Rockville MD  Translating Behavioral Science into Treatments for Insomnia   Richard R. Bootzin, Ph.D. 
09/28/06 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Neuroscience Center, 6001 Executive Blvd., Rm. C, Rockville MD  Illusions in the Experience of Conscious Will   Daniel M. Wegner, Ph.D. 
06/15/06 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Neuroscience Center, 6001 Executive Blvd, Room C  How Children Shape Languages: Language Acquisition and the Emergence of Signed and Spoken Languages   Elissa Newport, Ph.D. 
05/16/06 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Neuroscience Center, 6001 Executive Blvd, Room C  Deadly Inequality: Uninsured Ethnic Minorities Living with Life-Threatening Illness   Gaylene Becker, Ph.D. 
04/21/06 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Neuroscience Bldg., Rm. A, 6001 Executive Blvd., Rockville, MD  Mind and Body Back Together Again: Brain Serotonin and Cardiovascular Risk   Stephen Manuck, PhD 
03/07/06 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Neursocience Center, 6001 Executive Blvd, Rockville, Rm. C  Aging and Cognitive/Cortical Plasticity   Arthur F. Kramer, Ph.D. 
02/15/06 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Masur Auditorium, Bldg. 10  NIH Director's Lecture: Winning at Losing -- The Art and Science of Long-term Weight Control   Rena R. Wing, Ph.D. 
01/26/06 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Neuroscience Building, Rm. C, 6001 Executive Blvd, Rockville MD  Loving Family Relationships and Oxytocin: New Human Findings   Kathleen C. Light, PhD 
11/16/05 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Neursocience Center, Room C  The Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapies in Generating Clinical and Psychophysiological Change in Generalized Anxiety Disorder   Thomas D. Borkovec, Ph.D. 
10/21/05 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. Bldg. 31, 6th Floor, Conf. Room 6  Combining Genetic and Behavioral Research in Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention   Robert Plomin, Ph.D. 
06/13/05 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Neuroscience Center, 6001 Executive Blvd., Room C  Growing up a Little Faster: The Life Course Implications of Childhood Adultification   Linda M. Burton, Ph.D. 
05/16/05 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Neuroscience Center, 6001 Executive Blvd., Room C  Learning and Extinction: The Place of Basic Behavioral Science in a Translational Research Agenda   Mark Bouton, Ph.D. 
04/20/05 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Neuroscience Center, 6001 Executive Blvd, Room D  Primate Communication, Primate Minds, and the Origins of Language   Robert M. Seyfarth, Ph.D. 
03/14/05 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. Neuroscience Center., 6001 Executive Blvd., Room C  Motivational Interviewing and Health Behavior Change   Willilam R. Miller, Ph.D. 
02/03/05 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. Natcher Bldg., Balcony C  Using Poverty Alleviation Programs to Improve Population Health   Paul J. Gertler, Ph.D. 
02/02/05 3:00 p.m. Masur Auditorium, Bldg. 10  WALS: The pervasive import of affect: Gleanings from affective neuroscience   Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D. 
01/14/05 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Natcher Bldg. (45), Balcony A  Symposium on the Personal and Social Costs of Traumatic Stress   Matthew J. Friedman, Elana Newman, & Fran H. Norris 
12/10/04 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Neuroscience Building, Room C  Brain Imaging Studies of Reading and Reading Remediation   Guinevere Eden, Dr. Phil. 
11/16/04 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Natcher Bldg., Rm. E  Your Money or Your Life: Understanding the Value of Biomedical Advance   David Cutler, Ph.D. 
10/21/04 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Neuroscience Center, Room C  Culture and Point of View   Richard E. Nisbett, Ph.D. 
09/23/04 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Neuroscience Center, Room C  Responding to the Death of a Spouse: Cultural Understanding vs. Scientific Evidence   Camille Wortman, Ph.D. 
06/17/04 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Neuroscience Bldg., Rm. C, 6001 Executive Blvd., Rockville  Interactive Multimedia for Children's Diet and Physical Activity Change   Tom Baranowski, Ph.D. 
05/27/04 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Natcher Conference Center, Main Auditorium  Symposium on Mindfulness Meditation and Health   Panel of Six Experts 
04/21/04 3:15 - 4:15 p.m. Neuroscience Bldg., Rm C, 6001 Executive Blvd., Rockville  Nonconscious Goal Pursuit: The Cognitive Basis of the Unconscious   John A. Bargh, Ph.D. 
03/03/04 3:00 p.m. Masur Auditorium, Bldg. 10  NIH Director's WALS: The Marvels and Illusions of Intuitive Thinking   Daniel Kahneman, Ph.D. 
02/18/04 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Neuroscience Bldg., Rm. C, 6001 Executive Blvd., Rockville  Transfers to Women and Child Health Outcomes  Esther Duflo, Ph.D. 
12/18/03 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Neuroscience Center, 6001 Executive Blvd., Room C, Rockville MD  The Long Arm of Childhood: The Influence of Early Life Conditions on Adult Morbidity and Mortality   Mark D. Hayward, Ph.D. 
11/13/03 3:00 - 400 p.m. Neuroscience Center, 6001 Executive Blvd, Rm. C  Fight-or-Flight vs. Tend-and-Befriend: The Significance of Gender Differences in Stress Responses   Shelley E. Taylor, Ph.D. 
10/16/03 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Neuroscience Center, 6001 Executive Blvd, Rockville, Room C  Mothers in Poverty: Work, Health and Health Insurance   Laura Lein, Ph.D. 
06/17/03 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Natcher Conference Center (Bldg 45), Balcony B  Social Networks and Internal Migration: The Case of Nang Ron, Thailand   Barbara Entwisle, Ph.D. 
05/12/03 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. Neuroscience Building, 6001 Executive Blvd., Rockville, Room C  Evidence, Anecdote, and Advocacy in the Study of Religion and Health   Richard P. Sloan, Ph.D. 
05/12/03 3:00- 5:00 p.m. Neuroscience Building, 6001 Executive Blvd., Rockville, Room C  Religion and Health in Late Life: Challenges and New Directions   Neal M. Krause, Ph.D. 
05/05/03 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. Bldg 45, Conference Room F1/F2  Issues in Human Subjects Protection in Behavioral and Social Research   Felice Levine, Ph.D., and Elain Wetherington, Ph.D. 
04/25/03 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Neuroscience Building, 6001 Executive Blvd, Rockville, Room C  Memory Systems of the Mammalian Brain   Larry R. Squire, Ph.D 
03/14/03 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Neuroscience Building, 6001 Executive Blvd., Rockville, Room C  Migration and Health among Vietnamese: Adaptation and Selection Effects   Mark J. Vanlandingham, Ph.D. 
02/20/03 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. Natcher Bldg. (45), Balcony B  What Can Geocoding Tell us about US Health Disparities?   Nancy Krieger, Ph.D. 
02/05/03 3:00 p.m. Masur Auditorium, Bldg. 10  Growing up Poor in the United States: Research, Practice, and Policy  Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Ph.D. 
01/13/03 3:00-4:00 p.m. Natcher Bldg. (45), Balcony A  Neurovisceral Integration: Linking Psychopathology and Behavioral Medicine  Julian Thayer, Ph.D. 
12/11/02 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Neuroscience Bldg., Rm. C  Resilience: A Biopsychosocial Perspective on What Protects Health  Carol D. Ryff, Ph.D. 
12/10/02 9:30 - 11:00 a.m. EPN J  Security and Danger: Fieldwork under Difficult Circumstances  Dorothy Castille, Ph.D. 
11/13/02 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. Natcher Bldg. (45), Balcony B  Advance in Science of Self-Report: The Use of Diaries  Arthur Stone, Ph.D. 
10/23/02 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Neuroscience Center, Rm. C  Genetic and Family influences on Substance Dependence and Antisocial Behavior in Adolescence  John K. Hewitt, Ph.D. 
09/26/02 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. Wilson Hall, Shannon Bldg. (1)  Symposium on Coping with 9/11: Reactions to a National Trauma   Roxane Silver, Ph.D. 
09/26/02 3:00-4:30 p.m. Wilson Hall, Shannon Bldg. (1)  Symposium on Coping with 9/11: Reactions to a National Trauma  David Vlahov, Ph.D. 
06/03/02 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. Neuroscience Center, Room C, 6001 Executive Blvd.  New Directions in Adherence Research: Using Qualitative Methods to Promote Self-Care in Diverse Populations   Noel Chrisman, PhD, Miyong T. Kim, PhD, RN, and Jean Schensul, Ph.D. 
05/14/02 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. Neuroscience Center, Room D, 6001 Executive Blvd.  Reopening the Critical Period: Understanding and Remediating Failures of Learning   James L. McClelland, Ph.D. 
04/11/02 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Neuroscience Center, Room C, 6001 Executive Blvd.  Contingencies of Self-Worth: Implications for Self-Regulation and Psychological Vulnerability  Jennifer Crocker, Ph.D. 
03/08/02 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Neuroscience Center, 6001 Executive Blvd, Room C  The Possibility of Empathy in Other Animals   Frans B. M. de Waal, Ph.D. 
02/26/02 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. Neuroscience Center, Room C,6001 Executive Blvd.  Memory, Experience, and Measures of Well-being   Daniel Kahneman, Ph.D. 
01/16/02 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. Natcher Bldg., Balcony A  Successful Aging: Prescriptions and Persisting Problems   Robert L. Kahn, Ph.D. 
12/04/01 3:00 p.m. Natcher Bldg., Balcony A  Gender Differences in Heart Disease: Let me Count the Ways   Karen A. Matthews, Ph.D. 
11/14/01 9:00 a.m. Natcher Bldg., Balcony B  Health Campaigns in the Age of Ubiguitous Media: Promise and Peril   John R. Finnegan, Ph.D. 
10/26/01 9:00 a.m. Shannon Bldg. (1), Wilson Hall  Teenage Childbearing across Generations: Reality or Myth   Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., Ph.D. 
10/22/01 9:00-11:00 a.m. Shannon Building (1), Wilson Hall (third floor)  Biocultural Dynamics of the Life Course: A Difficult Journey from the Third to Fourth Age?  Paul B. Baltes, Ph.D. 
06/28/01 9:00 a.m. Neuroscience Building, Conference Room D  The Health of US-born vs. Foreign-born African Americans: Implications for Addressing US Health Disparities   Raynard S. Kington, M.D., Ph.D. 
05/21/01 9:00 a.m. Wilson Hall, Bldg. 1  Sleep debt: Neurobehavioral consequences of chronic partial sleep loss   David F. Dinges, Ph.D. 
05/21/01 9:00 a.m. Wilson Hall, Bldg. 1  Effects of Sleep and the Circadian Timing System on Alertness   Mary A. Carskadon, Ph.D. 
05/16/01 3:00 p.m. Masur Auditorium, Bldg. 10  Welfare, Children and Families: The Impact of Welfare Reform in the New Economy   William Julius Wilson, Ph.D. 
05/09/01 3:00 p.m. Masur Auditorium, Bldg. 10  Buried Alive! The Concept of Race in Science   Troy Duster, Ph.D. 
04/17/01 9:00 a.m. Neuroscience Center, Room C, 6001 Executive Blvd., Rockville, MD  The NICHD Study of Early Child Care -- Discussant   Sandra Hofferth, Ph.D. 
04/17/01 9:00 a.m. Neuroscience Building, Conference Room C  NICHD Study of Early Child Care -- Speaker   Jay Belsky, Ph.D. 
02/07/01 3:00 p.m. Masur Auditorium, Bldg. 10  Beyond Health Disparities: Behavior and Cultural Diversity in Health   Susan Scrimshaw, Ph.D. 
11/09/00 9:00 a.m. Natcher Building, Balcony A  Population Trends and Family Planning in the Developing World   Amy Tsui, Ph.D. 
10/19/00 9:00 a.m. Natcher Building, Balcony A  The Aging Mind   Denise C. Park, Ph.D. 
09/27/00 9:00 a.m. Natcher Building, Balcony A  Finding Coherence and Predictability in Personality   Walter Mischel, Ph.D. 
05/25/00 3:00 p.m. Neuroscience Building, Conference Room C  Biopsychosocial Research on Violence: Aggressive experiences impact on amines and and gene expression   Klaus Miczek 
05/25/00 3:00 p.m. Neuroscience Building, Conference Room C  Biopsychosocial Research on Violence   Adrian Raine 
05/25/00 3:00 p.m. Neuroscience Building, Conference Room C  Biopsychosocial Research on Violence: Violence Prevention Research and Practice: Knowing “What Works” is Not Enough   Delbert S. Elliott 
04/10/00 9:00 a.m. Natcher Building, Balcony C  The Dyna.m.ics of Long-term Close Relationships   Robert W. Levenson, Ph.D. 
03/29/00 1:00 p.m. Wilson Hall, Building 1  General Meeting of the Interest Group   Ronald Abeles & Jaylan Turkkan 
03/29/00 1:15 p.m. Wilson Hall, Building 1  Emotion Regulation in Social Context over the Life Course: Childhood and Adolescence   Nancy Eisenberg, Ph.D. 
03/29/00 1:45 p.m. Wilson Hall, Building 1  Emotion Regulation in Social Context over the Life Course: Adulthood and Old Age   Laura L. Carstensen, Ph.D. 
03/01/00 10:30 a.m. Lipsett Auditorium, Building 10  Genetic Enhancement of Learning and Memory in Mice   Joe Z. Tsien, Ph.D. 
02/15/00 9:00 a.m. Natcher Building, Balcony A  Functional neuroimaging studies of reading and reading disability: Establishing brain-behavior relationships  Kenneth R. Pugh, Ph.D. 
01/19/00 3:30 p.m. Natcher Building, Balcony A  Core Knowledge and Cognitive Develop.m.ent  Elizabeth Spelke, Ph.D. 
12/13/99 10:00 a.m. Wilson Hall, Building 1  Prevention of Depression and Positive Psychology   Martin E. P. Seligman, Ph.D. 
11/18/99 9:00 a.m. Natcher Building, Balcony A  The Effects of Pheromones on Mammalian and Human Behavior   Martha K. McClintock, Ph.D. 
10/29/99 9:00 a.m. Natcher Building, Balcony A  The Role of Stereotypes in Shaping Intellectual Performance and Identity   Claude Steele, Ph.D. 
09/13/99 3:00 p.m. Natcher Building, Balcony A  Indicators of Child and Family Well-being: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly   Kris Moore, Ph.D. 
06/21/99 3:00 p.m. Natcher Building, Balcony A  Interest Group Meeting and Lectures   Jaylan Turkkan & Ronald Abeles 
06/21/99 3:00 p.m. Natcher Building, Balcony A  The Analgesic Response to Stress in Mice and Men (and Women)   Wendy F. Sternberg, Ph.D. 
06/21/99 3:00 p.m. Natcher Building, Balcony A  Current Trends in Psychosocial Pain Research   Jennifer A. Haythornthwaite, Ph.D. 
01/14/99 3:00 p.m. Natcher Building, Balcony A  The Misbehaving Gene: New Strategies in Mouse Behavioral Genetics   Jacqueline N. Crawley, Ph.D 
01/14/99 3:00 p.m. Natcher Building, Balcony A  Knockout Mouse Models of Human Genetic   Richard L Proia, Ph.D. 

 


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