Our structure helps ensure smooth research pathways - from pure discovery science through to clinical application and patient care. The integration of discovery biology, clinical application and patient care within a single Faculty, particularly in a region with notable health inequality, provides us with a real opportunity to have a very significant and positive impact on people's lives.
The Department of Psychology at the University of Copenhagen is engaged in research and teaching in the field of psychology. The department explores topics such as memory and concentration problems in people with bipolar disorder and the role of neuroplasticity in cognitive disorders. Professor Kamilla Miskowiak is leading projects supported by the Independent Research Fund Denmark.
Our department has three graduate programs that lead to a PhD—clinical, social-personality, and developmental psychology. We also have an undergraduate psychology major and several psychology minors.
Psychological science is traditionally defined as the study of behavior; neuroscience as the study of the nervous system. As a Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences we are focused on understanding mind and behavior in terms of underlying psychological processes that have their genesis in neural activity in the brain.