Body and Mind Sciences

Study location	Turin
Type	Second cycle degree (Postgraduate), full-time
Nominal duration	2 years. The enrolment conditions, full-time or part-time is chosen year by year and accordingly changes tuition fee
Study language	Italian

Tuition fee	€2,800 per year To obtain a reduction in the above amount you must have requested ISEE certification for financial aid. en.unito.it/studying-unito/tuition-fees

Entry qualification

First cycle diploma ( BA, Ungergraduate diploma) To enrol in a second-cycle degree programme (i.e. master’s degree) with no admission quotas, you must hold a first-cycle degree (i.e. bachelor’s degree) of at least a 3 years duration. You will also need to meet specific admission requirements and demonstrate adequate personal knowledge. Candidates must have obtained basic knowledge and competences in theory, history and methodology about all psychology disciplinary sectors (at least 80 ECTS credits). A practical English and IT knowledge is required. The entry test consists of questions about the following fields: • Psychometry; • General Psychology; • English Language; • Neuroscience, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology. The entry qualification documents are accepted in the following languages: Italian / English / French / Spanish. Often you can get a suitable transcript from your school. If this is not the case, you will need official translations along with verified copies of the original. These documents shall be written or translated in one of the following languages: Italian, English, French, Spanish. If the document is issued in a different language from those listed above, you will have to upload both the original document and its certified translation. You must take the original entry qualification documents along with you when you finally go to the university.

Language requirements	Italian Your knowledge of Italian language will be verified during the admission interview.

Other requirements	A motivation letter must be added to your application. Please write down different motivation letters for each programme you are interested in.

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Overview

The Master’s Degree programme in Body and Mind Sciences is an interdepartmental programme, which aims at providing students with combined specialized psychological knowledge and medical knowledge.
The new professional profile resulting from this degree programme is born from the needs in neuropsychology research and in different professional and health contexts.

Body and Mind Sciences has the double objective of providing a sound knowledge of modern scientific psychology together with some basic competences in medicine, in order to allow students to understand and investigate the connection between mind, brain and body. In other words, it proposes a disciplinary model which combines the most recent methodologies researches of scientific psychology with rudiments of medicine to understand the relationship between mind, the nervous central system and body and their mutual influences.
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Il corso di laurea magistrale in Scienze del corpo e della mente si propone come un corso interdipartimentale che intende integrare conoscenze psicologiche approfondite con conoscenze di tipo medico.
Questa nuova figura di psicologo nasce dalle esigenze emerse congiuntamente nella ricerca in neuropsicologia, così come in diversi contesti professionali e sanitari.
L’impostazione scientifica e didattica del corso di laurea in Scienze del corpo e della mente ha perciò il duplice scopo di fornire una buona conoscenza della psicologia scientifica moderna insieme ad alcune nozioni mediche di base che permettano di comprendere ed indagare le articolate relazioni tra mente, cervello e corpo. In altre parole, si propone un modello formativo che integri le più recenti metodologie di ricerca della psicologia scientifica con i domini della medicina fondamentali per la comprensione del rapporto tra mente, sistema nervoso centrale e corpo e le loro reciproche influenze.

Career opportunities

This master’s degree trains the the psychologist and allows the graduate to access the State exam, which is necessary in order to practice the profession and enter in the Psychologists register.
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La laurea magistrale in Scienze del corpo e della mente forma la figura professionale dello psicologo e consente l’accesso all’esame di Stato, infatti per l’esercizio della professione è necessario dopo la laurea superare l’Esame di Stato e iscriversi alla sez. A dell’Albo degli Psicologi.