Doctoral Program of Applied Medical Science: Mental Health and Behavioural Medicine
Biological, psychological and social factors play an important role in the etiology, course and therapy of psychiatric and somatic disorders. Behavioural medicine is concerned with the development and integration of psychosocial, behavioural and biomedical knowledge relevant to health and illness and the application of this knowledge to prevention, etiology, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation. The scope of behavioural medicine also includes disease prevention and health promotion. Its multi-disciplinary approach involves not only clinical psychiatry and psychology but also neuroscience, sociology, anthropology, educational sciences and public health.