Author: Board on Behavioral

Estimates indicate that as many as 1 in 4 Americans will experience a mental health problem or will misuse alcohol or drugs in their lifetimes. The...

The workshop summarized in this report was organized as part of a study sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration ...

In February 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop to explore options for expanding the Substance Abus...

While there is a limited data on safety-sensitive professionals, substance use disorders potentially affect pilots and flight attendants at the sam...

The development of technologies to modify natural human physical and cognitive performance is one of increasing interest and concern, especially am...

Every year, the U.S. Army must select from an applicant pool in the hundreds of thousands to meet annual enlistment targets, currently numbering in...

Individuals from minoritized racial and ethnic groups continue to face systemic barriers that impede their ability to access, persist, and thrive i...

Behavioral economics - a field based in collaborations among economists and psychologists - focuses on integrating a nuanced understanding of behav...

The United States Army faces a variety of challenges to maintain a ready and capable force into the future. Missions are increasingly diverse, rang...

The intelligence community (IC) plays an essential role in the national security of the United States. Decision makers rely on IC analyses and pred...

Proposed Revisions to the Common Rule for the Protection of Human Subjects in the Behavioral and Social Sciences examines how to update human subje...

In the coming years, complex domestic and international environments and challenges to national security will continue. Intelligence analysts and t...

Headlines frequently appear that purport to highlight the differences among workers of different generations and explain how employers can manage t...

There are many reasons to be curious about the way people learn, and the past several decades have seen an explosion of research that has important...

To explore how mobile technology can be employed to enhance the lives of older adults, the Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences of ...

On July 26, 2011, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) with the purpose of soli...

The Workshop on Integrating New Measures of Trauma into the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) Data Collection Pr...

The workshop summarized in this report was organized as part of a study sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration ...