Main Activities
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Research Center
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences was established in 2009, aimed at developing research and training in the field of psychiatry in the country. In 2014, it succeeded in obtaining principal agreement from the Development Council of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education.
This center has so far published about 387 research articles in reputable domestic and foreign journals indexed in ISI, PubMed, Scopus, and other valid bases, also it have gaied seventh country ranking between centers of psychiatry area by presenting more than 174 articles in national and international conferences and 224 research projects contain 116 student thesis by the members of the center. In order to achieve its goals, the center has also made attempts to empower its faculty members and researchers in the field of mental health, and has held over 60 workshops on psychiatry and related areas. Among the workshops held by the center are mental health during and after genome, sexual response disorders among women and men, rTMS, methodology, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, meta-cognition in anxiety disorders, couple therapy with a psychodynamic approach, schema therapy, psychosomatic disorders, and substance abuse treatment programs using agonists/antagonists for general physicians.
This center was selected as the Knowledge Management Unit of Clinical Psychiatry, and following Treatment Deputy of the Ministry of Health, it is developing the clinical guideline of obsessive-compulsive disorder based on local patterns. The Center for Development of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Transgender (Transsexual) Studies Center, Journal of Fundamentals of Mental Health, Neurocgnitive branch, Stuvent’s Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Research group and East Educational Research Center of Drug Use Disorders are other units that are affiliated with this center.
Among other achievements of the center are participation in the Provincial Research and Technology Exhibition which was held in Mashhad in Research Week, and the center won the first place in two consecutive years.
This center started running with support from the Research Deputy of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences and in conjunction with the Department of Psychiatry of the university, and it welcomes all volunteer researchers interested in this field.
Other Activities
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Research Center of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences try to adopt short-, middle-, and long-term strategies in order to maintain and promote the community’s level of mental health and help generate knowledge
1- Planning to carry out applied studies on mental health
2- Organizing and conducting research to identify risk factors of mental and behavioral disorders
3- Identifying and proposing scientific and practical solutions to control the risk factors of psychiatric disorders
4- Planning to make optimal use of scientific potentials in order to provide primary and secondary prevention of mental illness
5- Coordinating and conducting scientific research on new medications for psychiatric disorders
6- Identifying risk factors and devising and proposing solutions for controlling them in different groups of the society (women, children, and the elderly)
7- Establishing systematic communication with mass media and offering different trainings appropriate for different groups of the society
8- Making planned use of various educational environments such as schools and universities to raise public awareness of mental health issues
9- Carrying out applied studies on life skills and their relationship with mental disorders and proposing practical solutions for modifying them
10- Collaborating with the certain centers devoted to controlling mental disorders (health centers, scientific communities, relevant organizations and agencies, etc.)
11- Making use of the students’ great potential to control mental disorders
12- Establishing scientific exchanges with other national and international centers
13- Evaluating the performance of Psychiatry Research Center periodically
14- Making any effort that helps diminish psychiatric disorders and the mortality and disabilities caused by them