Spring Lectures To Discuss New Approaches for Treating Mental Health and Pain | NCCIH

Spring Lectures To Discuss New Approaches for Treating Mental Health and Pain | NCCIH

Spring Lectures To Discuss New Approaches for Treating Mental Health and Pain  March 03, 2020 NCCIH Research Blog Team We’re excited to tell you that NCCIH will host three lectures this spring by Center-funded investigators on “Novel Approaches at the Intersection of Mental Health and Pain.” The events will take place in Lipsett Amphitheater in Building 10 on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus, will be streamed live on NIH VideoCast and Facebook Live, and are part of the Center’s Integrative Medicine Research Lecture Series. On Tuesday, March 24, at 11 a.m. ET, Eric Garland, Ph.D., L.C.S.W., will kick off the series with “Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE): Restructuring Reward Processing in Addiction, Stress, and Pain.” Dr. Garland is Distinguished Endowed Chair in Research and associate dean for research at the University of Utah College of Social Work, and director of the university’s Center on Mindfulness and Integrative Health Intervention Development. He is also a psychotherapist, and a member of the Multi-Disciplinary Working Group of the NIH HEAL InitiativeSM, which partly funds his research.

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