MD2K – Advancing Biomedical Discovery and Improving Health through Mobile...
MD2K is one of 11 national Big Data Centers of Excellence awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as part of its Big Data-to-Knowledge initiative. The MD2K Center brings together the top...
View ArticleUB’s Epstein receives lifetime achievement award
Leonard H. Epstein, an internationally recognized expert on childhood weight control, has been awarded the Hoebel Prize for Creativity by the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior. The award...
View ArticleUIC Researchers Create Voice-Enabled Coach to Manage Type 2 Diabetes
More than 30 million Americans had diabetes in 2015, according to the American Diabetes Association. That’s just over 9 percent of the U.S. population. The vast majority of those with the disease have...
View ArticleBe ‘Mindful’ of the Hype
“Mindfulness” is touted as a cure-all for many modern ills, from stress and pain to depression. But little to no scientific evidence backs up most of the health claims surrounding the practice, said...
View ArticleResearchers ‘dismantle’ mindfulness intervention to see how each component works
As health interventions based on mindfulness have grown in popularity, some of the field’s leading researchers have become concerned that the evidence base for such practices is not yet robust enough....
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The Science Behind Behavior Change
Columbia researchers are helping scientists change the way they study human behavior to focus on the mechanisms that explain how people adopt healthier habits. If you made a New Year’s resolution...
View ArticleRCCN: Achieving and Sustaining Behavior Change to Benefit Older Adults
On December 6, 2018, Dr. Donald Edmondson presented at the Research Centers Collaborative Network’s (RCCN) Achieving and Sustaining Behavior Change to Benefit Older Adults Workshop on the Science of...
View ArticleCan Mindfulness Evolve From Wellness Pursuit to Medical Treatment? | New York...
Roughly a third of all adults in the United States have high blood pressure, a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke. It’s a condition that can be largely controlled with diet, exercise and...
View ArticleNational Institution of Aging Highlights SOBC and CBCH Roybal Center’s Work.
Adopting healthy habits: What do we know about the science of behavior change? “For many people, living a long, healthy life can be attributed to adopting and maintaining healthy behaviors. NIA-funded...
View ArticleSOBC Invited by HIV Center NYC, Gives a Seminar on Mechanism-Focused...
Dr. Talea Cornelius, Ph.D. MSW, MS, and Dr. Jeffrey Birk, Ph.D. MS at the Research and Coordination Center of SOBC gives a virtual seminar on the SOBC experimental method for behavioral science,...
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