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The Health and Behavior group at the University of Wisconsin includes faculty
working at many different levels to investigate the relation between psychological
processes, intervening neurobiological mechanisms, and physical health outcomes.
Research is conducted at different periods of the life course in both human
and animal models. A unique strength ongoing projects is the cross-area synergy
across domains of psychology (addictions, affective neuroscience, clinical,
developmental, personality/social, psychoneuroimmunology). Graduate students
with research interests in this area can be admitted in any of the area groups,
or can pursue an individualized study major that permits them to develop an
individualized curriculum and be advised by a five-person committee. The Health
and Behavior group at Wisconsin is greatly facilitated by a large recent NIH
grant to create a Center for the study of Mind-Body Interaction, in which health
resilience is a primary theme, as well as for a Center on Tobacco Research,
in addition to an NIMH training grant in emotion research. The following list
contains faculty who participate in the Health and Behavior group, along with
their research interests:
- Tim Baker - smoking and addiction
- Chris Coe - psychoneuroimmunology
- John Curtin - alcohol, alcohol abuse and emotional processes
- Richard Davidson - individual differences in the neural circuitry of emotion and its relation to immune, endocrine and autonomic function
- Janet Hyde - Sexual health
- Carol Ryff - investigates, in adulthood and aging samples, how psychological
and social well-being contribute to positive health (reduced morbidity, delayed
mortality) especially in the face of cumulating life challenge
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