Psychology and Neuroscience of Mind-Body Interface King's College London

Overview

Evidence from clinical practice, as well as research, has revealed patients with mental health disorders often also experience physical symptoms. Stress can trigger or exacerbate mental and physical disorders, leading to depression, as well as diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. 

Equally physical symptoms and diseases can affect a person's psychological state. Patients with recurring or chronic physical symptoms are more vulnerable to develop mental health pathologies, such as depression or anxiety. Therefore, understanding how the mind and body communicate have become fundamental questions both within the scientific community, as well as among clinicians.

Key Features

The Psychology and Neuroscience of Mind-Body Interface program at King's College London offers clinical and research placements to provide you with practical experience to enhance your current career or to prepare you for clinical roles, academia, or industry.

• Provides both theoretical and practical knowledge of the psychology and neuroscience aspects of the Mind-Body interface
• This course is the first of its kind and will place you at the forefront of this cutting-edge area of research which is unlocking fundamental questions around the link between mind and body - and what this means for how we treat patients.
• Enhance your clinical experience through placements at the South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM)- the largest mental health Trust in the UK, and King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
• You’ll have a wide range of research dissertation opportunities across research laboratories at the IoPPN, including within the departments of Psychological Medicine, Psychosis, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, Neuroimaging, and Social Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry supervised by leading researchers and clinicians at the IoPPN.
• Become part of the community at the IoPPN, a faculty ranked 2nd in the world for psychology and psychiatry (US News, Best Global Universities), and home to one of the world's largest centres for neuroscience research.
• Based on the same site as the Maudsley Hospital and with access to state-of-the-art equipment at the Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences; MRC Social Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre; Maurice Wohl Neuroscience Centre; NIHR Biomedical Research Centre.

• Prepare for a wide range of opportunities, from further study, research, and clinical practice to roles in scientific publishing or pharmaceutical organisations.

Employability

After you finish the course, you will be able to:

• Apply your skills in your career as a clinician
• Continue to further full-time study in an academic research environment (i.e., PhD)
• Apply to a taught clinical course (i.e., Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, if you have completed a BPS accredited undergraduate course before)
• Find a role within a clinical or pharmaceutical organisation
• Work within a research funding body
• Enter scientific publishing