Director's Message from Helene M. Langevin, M.D.
January 9, 2024

As we have explored factors that influence the health of the whole person, it has become increasingly evident that interrelationshipsbetween different body organs and systems, between genetics and environment, and between the mind and bodyare crucial in both health and disease. Even when were focusing on a single disease process, we need to consider multiple mechanisms and parts of the body, as well as peoples lifestyles and environments, to fully understand how best to prevent or manage it.

January 2024 Clinical Digest

Several mind and body approaches, including relaxation techniques, yoga, tai chi, hypnotherapy, and meditation may be useful for managing symptoms of stress in your patients. For some stress-related conditions, mind and body approaches are used as an adjunct to other forms of treatment. This issue of the digest provides a summary of current research on some of these approaches for stress, anxiety, and stress-related conditions.

The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) seeks to identify an outstanding Staff Scientist 1 to be the facility head to lead activities, supervise staff, and manage the budgetof the NIH Pain Research Center (PRC).The facility head will have the opportunity to do independent research as well as collaborate and facilitate research with other investigators.

The PRC is part of the NCCIH Division of Intramural Research (DIR), which conducts basic, translational, and clinical research to improve our understanding of the mechanisms of pain processing and modulation of pain. The PRC is housed within the NIH Clinical Center, the nations largest hospital devoted entirely to clinical research. The PRC collects a wide range of measures related to human pain experience, including deep phenotyping of pain presentation and responses to pain therapies, brain imaging, genomics, and metabolomics. The PRC serves as a research, training, and diagnostic hub for intramural investigators to study and advance our knowledge of pain and pain mechanisms.

The application deadline is March 4, 2024.

January 25, 2024, 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. ET; Virtual
Please join us for a preapplication technical assistance webinar regarding the notice of funding opportunity,RFA-AT-24-006: Resource Center for Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed).The webinar will provide potential grant applicantswith an overview and address questions from the scientific community on applications for aResource Center for Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research.The webinar will feature highlights of application considerations from program staff at the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) and three other partnering National Institutes of Health Institutes and Centers. It will also include a presentation on review requirements from NCCIHs Office of Scientific Review.

Registration is required.

Meet the Director: Helene M. Langevin, M.D., National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health

Helene M. Langevin, M.D., was destined for a career in medicine. Not only did she grow up around doctors, but she was always curious about how the body worked. In 2018, she became Director of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH). NCCIH looks at how mainstream and nonconventional treatments, when used together, can improvewhole person health. These treatments can be things like meditation or yoga. Read more.