NIH and the Behavioral Side of Biomedical Research

Despite the fact that more than 50 percent of the leading causes of death are due to behavior, the National Institutes of Health, says APS Executive Director Alan G. Kraut, has to be "dragged kicking and screaming" to the behavioral science table. "Saying ‘biomedical' does not mean you've said ‘behavioral,' any more than saying ‘men' means you've said ‘women,'" he said. "We need to change our view of what health research is just as we need to understand that health involves more than biological functioning.

Department Profile: Washington University in St. Louis

Spotlight on Research: The Emotional Brain and the Emergence of Affective Neuroscience

APS Member Awarded McDonnell Fellowship

White House Names Two APS Members Outstanding Young Scientists

Behavior, Biology, and NIH

APS Offers Online Access to Journals

Who Owns Your Research?

One Senator, stung by a refusal to allow access to raw research data from a published study, inserted a relatively small provision into last year's omnibus appropriations bill that has the scientific community in a giant uproar. The provision would make all data produced under a federal grant available through the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA. If implemented, this could have far-reaching effects on both the pragmatic and philosophical dimensions of federally-funded science, raising the specter of enormous administrative burdens for research institutions and individual investigators, and prompting fundamental questions of intellectual property rights.