BBRB Newsletter: Spring 2001
BBRB Research Agenda
BBRB supports a broad spectrum of basic biobehavioral research in cancer control. Primary research areas include:
- Development and testing of models and theories of health behavior
- Behavioral genetics (e.g., genetic determinants of individual differences in the reinforcing effects of smoking, eating, and physical activity)
- Psychoneuroimmunology (examining how stress and psychosocial influences on behavior, the central nervous system, the immune system, and CNS-immune system interactions impact disease progression and remission)
- Decision making in cancer screening, prevention, and treatment
- Psychosocial and behavioral consequences of cancer risk assessment
- Relationship of personality factors and psychopathological processes to cancer-related behaviors and course of disease
- Cancer communication
- Methodology and measurement in behavioral science research
- Evaluation of mediators and moderators of adaptation and coping
- Basic research in social and psychological processes potentially related to cancer control
BBRB supports a transdisciplinary approach to biobehavioral research and encourages behavioral researchers from a variety of disciplines - psychology, medicine, nursing, genetics, communications, health services research, biostatistics - to submit applications.
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