Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine (new name!)

New year, new name, same journal! Psychosomatic Medicine is now Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine. The inaugural issue with this title has two important letters describing the context of the decision to update the journal's name....🧵

Deadline Sept. 8!

Missed the deadline for the @bsamjournal.bsky.social special issue on protocols and data notes? Good news! We have extended the deadline to July 1. Looking forward to reading your submissions. With @daryloconnor.bsky.social Call for papers, with new deadline: journals.lww.com/bsam/Documen...

BSAM is welcoming submissions on any area of health psychology/behavioral medicine for a special issue for protocols and data notes! Goal is to support open/transparent research culture. Accepting submissions through 6/1/2026.

🗣 Join the Stress Measurement Network for a webinar digging into "𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬: 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐋𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬" Date: November 7, 2025 Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM PDT Sign up here: www.stressmeasurement.org/event-detail... #psychscisky #healthpsych #affectsci

The October issue of BSAM covers topics spanning discrimination, neighborhood opportunities, fear learning processes, with implications for cardiovascular reactivity, biological aging, among others. Read more: journals.lww.com/bsam/fulltex...

📣 #PNIRS2026: Save the Date‼️ 🗓️ June 22–25, 2026 📍 New Orleans, Louisiana 🇺🇸 ✨ Whether your PsychoNeuroImmunology research emphasizes the P, N, or I — we look forward to seeing your work and connecting in The Big Easy! 📻 Stay tuned for more info re: call for abstracts. Please spread the word 🙏🏼

Does a negative itch expectancy manipulation (via verbal suggestions and conditioning) lead to more costly itch-related avoidance behavior? You can learn more from this Open Access paper published in BSAM: journals.lww.com/bsam/fulltex...

Does the type of acute psychological stress (active versus passive) hold implications for stress-induced changes in proportions of monocyte subsets? Evidence from this study of young, healthy adults suggests that it does! Read more in BSAM (free through the 29th):

New in BSAM - Asthma: Biomedical and Psychobiological Perspectives This review combines a recognition of societal factors that worsen & consolidate disparities in asthma outcomes + explores mechanisms to support resilience in asthma patients from disadvantaged communities. Free for the week!

The September issue of BSAM is available now! Check out a summary of papers in this issue here: journals.lww.com/bsam/fulltex... #psychscisky #affectsci #healthpsych

Among people diagnosed with lung cancer, how does the co-occurrence of depression and systemic inflammation at diagnosis link with trajectories of depressive symptoms in the next 8 months? Read this new research for free through August 28th!: #cancer #healthpsychology #PNI #oncology #depression

What an incredible opportunity to learn about critical topics in sex and aging from The Kinsey Institute! Only $25 to attend online! Greatly appreciate the focus on menopause, social and structural factors that shape our sexual lives, LGBTQ+ aging, vulvovaginal health, and sexual well-being.

Do late adolescents and emerging adults who live in a communities with higher violent crime rates exhibit altered reward-related neural activation? This question was recently investigated in a sample of 101 adolescents. Read more in BSAM, free for the week! #healthpsych #psychscicky

In students’ first year of college, how do first-generation status and financial stress influence changes in inflammation and depressive symptoms? You can read this new research published in BSAM for free through August 21st! #disparities #psychscisky Read here: journals.lww.com/bsam/fulltex...

In students’ first year of college, how do first-generation status and financial stress influence changes in inflammation and depressive symptoms? You can read this new research published in BSAM for free through August 21st! #disparities #psychscisky Read here: journals.lww.com/bsam/fulltex...

Chronic pain can affect a person's social relationships, but is one's empathic capacity disrupted when experiencing chronic pain? This topic was explored in a recent systematic review and meta-analysis published in BSAM. Free to read for the next week! #chronicpain #healthpsych

Chronic pain can affect a person's social relationships, but is one's empathic capacity disrupted when experiencing chronic pain? This topic was explored in a recent systematic review and meta-analysis published in BSAM. Free to read for the next week! #chronicpain #healthpsych

In this month's issue of BSAM, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh investigated links between dietary intake of antioxidant nutrients and a structural neuroimaging indicator of brain age in midlife adults. #nutrition #brainaging You can read the results in their open-access paper here:

Have you read the research from the latest issue of Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine? You can check out brief article summaries here!: journals.lww.com/bsam/fulltex...

My dept (HDFS) at Texas Tech is hiring an Assistant Professor who studies family science and health, broadly defined to include physical health, mental health, community health, and relational health, including romantic and intergenerational relationships. Plz share widely! #healthpsych

🚨Calling all health psychologists! Submit to the Special Issue of BSAM on Protocols & Data Notes in Behavioral Medicine and Health Psychology + share this call widely to support a more open & transparent culture aimed at improving the rigor & reproducibility of our research! Call for submissions:

Join @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social, David Creswell, and A. Janet Tomiyama on July 23 for a new webinar! Learn more about what distinguishes toxic stress from manageable challenges, how #stress manifests differently across cultures & life stages, and which interventions are backed by evidence.

➡️Special issue for protocols and data notes at @bsamjournal.bsky.social - any area of health psychology/behavioral medicine welcome! If a protocol was peer reviewed by a funder, it may be eligible for rapid review 👀 Accepting submissions through 6/1/2026. Details: journals.lww.com/bsam/Documen...

Have you checked out the overview of articles in the June issue of BSAM? Read here: journals.lww.com/bsam/fulltex...