4. GERD. This stands for gastroesophageal reflux disease, and is a condition where fluids from the stomach backflow into the esophagus. The throat becomes irritated and white phlegm is coughed up. Other symptoms are chest pains, sore throat and the feeling of lumps in the throat.
Behavioral medicine is an interdisciplinary field combining both medicine and psychology and is concerned with the integration of knowledge in the biological, behavioral, psychological, and social sciences relevant to health and illness.ritings from the earliest civilizations have alluded to the relationship between mind and body, the fundamental concept underlying behavioral medicine. The field of psychosomatic medicine is among its academic forebears.
Noun. 1. behavior therapy-psychotherapy that seeks to extinguish or inhibit abnormal or maladaptive behavior by reinforcing desired behavior and extinguishing undesired behavior. behavior modification.psychotherapy-the treatment of mental or emotional problems by psychological means.eciprocal inhibition, reciprocal-inhibition therapy-a method of behavior therapy based on the inhibition of one response by the occurrence of another response that is mutually incompatible with it; a relaxation response might be conditioned to a stimulus that previously evoked anxiety.