Congratulations on your offer to study Psychology and Neuroscience of Mind-Body Interface MSc. Welcome to the offer holder hub for 2025 offer holders! Here you can access the information and insight you need, whenever you need it. 

Don’t forget you can contact your course lead on Unibuddy with any questions you might have, and join our Postgraduate Unibuddy Community to chat with fellow offer holders (coming soon). Any upcoming events will also be added to this page, so keep checking back for updates!

This programme is run by Dr Alessandra Borsini, a senior research scientist based at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), who has been investigating the intersection between the Mind and the Body in the context of mental health disorders for more than 15 years.

Please see your welcome letter from Dr Alessandra Borsini, below:

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Dear offer holders,

I would like to formally welcome you to our new MSc course in Psychology and Neuroscience of Mind-Body Interface!

We have received a huge number of applications and a great interest in this course, and as a consequence, our selection of candidates has been extremely competitive. I am very pleased that you have been offered a place in the course, and I am very looking forward to starting this journey together with you, in September.

My aim as Course Leader will be to provide you with personalised support as well as guidance throughout the whole journey, while constantly bearing in mind your future career path and trajectory (whether it is within the clinical, research, editorial or industry sector). Overall, the course will be providing you with a fundamental theoretical knowledge (throughout our diverse psychology and neuroscience modules) as well as practical experience (through our placements and dissertation projects) within the field of mind and body interface, which will place you in the best position for any future career step.

Finally, I would like to let you know we will be holding an on-campus event for all offers holders (please check back for details), as well as the Induction Day on the 17^th of September (location will be confirmed soon). Our course will officially start on the 29^th of September.

I am very looking forward to meeting you all very soon!

Best wishes,
Alessandra

Professor Juliet Foster, Dean of Education, shares a warm welcome to the 2025 offer holders of the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience.

The 2024 Postgraduate Online Offer Holder event recording is available below. A live 2025 event will take place in the coming months, details will be shared once booking is open. 

• Explore our content below to find out more about studying the Psychology and Neuroscience of Mind-Body Interface course.
• Chat 1-2-1 with one of our current students on unibuddy.
• Take an online tour of our Denmark Hill Campus - home of the Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience. 
• Join our postgraduate offer holders Unibuddy Community group to chat with other offer holders for your course (coming soon). 

Placements

Clinical Placements

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.

Research Placements

Two different types of research placements are available to students; clinical and non-clinical. Clinical research placements may include being able to recruit patients or collect biological samples of clinical data, whilst non-clinical placements will provide the opportunity to work in a wet lab and learn how to work with cells from the brain and the body.

Inspire the Mind

As part of your degree, you will have the opportunity to do a placement at Inspire the Mind. Here you can also find rich information about the course including:

• Career prospects
• About the MSc

In preparation for your journey, Dr Alessandra Borsini has shared some reading materials with you. Please consider this just a small taste!

1. Antonio L. Teixeira and Moises E. Bauer (2019). Immunopsychiatry. A Clinician's Introduction to the Immune Basis of Mental Disorders. Oxford University Press.
2. Carmine M. Pariante, M. Danet Lapiz-Bluhm (2014). Behavioral Neurobiology of Stress-related Disorders. Springer.
3. Mauro Percudani, Alessandra Bramante, Valeria Brenna, Carmine Pariante (2022). Key Topics in Perinatal Mental Health. Springer.
4. Paul Gilbert (2007). Psychotherapy and Counselling for Depression. SAGE Publications Ltd.
5. Ted Dinan (2023). Nutritional Psychiatry: A Primer for Clinicians. Cambridge University Press.
6. Brendon Stubbs, Simon Rosenbaum (1018). Exercise-Based Interventions for Mental Illness. Elsevier Academic Press.

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