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.
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.