behavioral medicine

noun

1. an interdisciplinary field that uses the concepts and techniques of the behavioral sciences to improve physical and emotional health.

Word History and Origins

Origin of behavioral medicine¹

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

"Furthermore," said co-corresponding author Ruth Benca, professor and chair of psychiatry and behavioral medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, "we found that women are more likely to have a greater proportion of their apneic events in REM sleep in comparison to men, which could potentially be contributing to their greater risk for Alzheimer's disease."

From Science Daily

The UMass Behavioral Medicine Lab, directed by exercise scientist Katie Potter, studies ways to help people become more active, with a current focus on children and dogs.

From Science Daily

"These data suggest that these multiple insults have a compounding effect," said senior author Ruth Barrientos, an investigator in Ohio State's Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research and associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral health and neuroscience in the College of Medicine.

From Science Daily

"Instead, we focused on what's already being used in patients for medical procedures," said Montague, who is also a professor in the Department of Physics at the Virginia Tech College of Science and in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine.

From Science Daily

Treatments for women’s health conditions have lagged behind the need, and that’s particularly true for pain conditions, in part due to the misconception that women are simply “overreacting,” said Sheryl A. Kingsberg, Ph.D., the chief of the division of behavioral medicine in the OB-GYN department at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center.

From Salon