IMPACT-MH Monthly Seminar

IMPACT is excited to announce that our next seminar series on Friday, May 2^nd at 3:00pm will be presented by Dr. David Epstein. David Epstein received his doctorate in Biopsychology & Behavioral Neuroscience from the Psychology Department at Rutgers University in 1998.  Since then, he has conducted human research at the National Institute on Drug Abuse in Baltimore, where he is now a tenure-track investigator.  He leads a research group called RAPT: the “Real-world Assessment, Prediction, and Treatment” unit.  He has over 20 years of experience in EMA (ecological momentary assessment) in people who use drugs nonmedically.  EMA is the focus of most of his publications, which number almost 200 and have been cited over 12,000 times.  These publications include the first large-scale deployment of EMA in people who use heroin and cocaine, and more recently the first-ever EMA study of people who use the legal drug kratom.  He is preparing a program of studies on boredom and what he calls its opposites (such as curiosity and psychological richness) as risk/protective factors and mobile-intervention targets for people who use cannabis.