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.
For the medical journal, see Psychosomatic Medicine (journal) . Psychosomatic medicine is an interdisciplinary medical field exploring the relationships among social, psychological, and behavioral factors on bodily processes and quality of life in humans and animals.t is still difficult to classify some disorders as purely physical, mixed psychosomatic, or purely somatoform. One example is Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) that was considered formerly as having purely mental causes, while subsequent research showed significant differences in the behaviour of the gut in IBS patients.