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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMMES

Psychosomatic, Anxiety

and Impulse Control Disorders

Programme Mental disorders as a whole constitute one of the most important health issues due to
the social, economic and personal burden they entail.
Description
Research on psychosomatic, anxiety and impulse control disorders focuses its interest

on eventually dominating pathologies which impose a high cost on society and on the
quality of life of individuals due to their high prevalence or the intensity of their mani-

festations. Psychosomatic comorbidity studies, an expanding field of psychiatry, offer

significant prospects for the entire field of medicine as they document the effect of
physical diseases on physical functions as well as the effect that psychopathology may

have on the onset and progress of somatic diseases.

Current research conducted by CIBERSAM groups in this programme may have broad

implications due to its ability to both involve good clinical services that are not yet
well developed relating to research, and to enhance the involvement of the groups in

scientific projects and studies.

• To develop a line of research on aging, and specifically on healthy aging, and re-
Objectives
lating to the disorders of this programme.

• To continue developing the line of research on inflammation relating to stress

disorders, anxiety disorders and other disorders of this programme.

• To continue leading research on the line of “services” for psychiatric pathology in

general hospitals and primary care centres.

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To continue developing different longitudinal epidemiological and risk factor stu-

dies in medical populations, including primary care, and to continue sharing epi-
demiological databases.

• To develop the line of work relating to suicide.
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• To continue studies on obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
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To continue the line of research on the neurobiological and psychosocial aspects O
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To lead research in the area of disorders with physical and somatic comorbidity.
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