The Department of Psychobiology and Health Sciences Methodology created n 1995, is responsible for the organization and implementation of  teaching and research in the two units that make up the department: Psychobiology and Methodology for the Behavioural Sciences.

With regard to teaching it coordinates its own teaching in the these two areas of knowledge in different faculties and schools in accordance with the teaching programme of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), and organises doctorate and postgraduate programmes and courses.

As a basic unit for research development, it promotes and support the research and knowledge transfer activities and initiatives of its academic staff.