Traditional directions of scientific developments of the department: the study of the features of pathopsychological syndromes, cognitive disorders and the clinical course of paranoid forms of schizophrenia burdened with somatic pathology. Research of specific features of gender-related suicidal behavior in patients with depressive disorders. Improvement of rehab programs to adapt patients to mental disorders. Research of patients with primary psychotic episode-stages of treatment, prevention. Studying the features of modern psychosocial factors in the development of psychotic and affective disorders. Study of the prodromal period of psychosis, clinical and psychopathological patterns of its formation, development of the principles of prevention.

The staff of the department participated in many international and about 50 All-Ukrainian scientific-practical conferences, congresses, symposiums devoted to the actual issues of psychiatry, narcology and medical psychology. The department initiated and was the organizer of many regional, interregional scientific and practical conferences.

The staff of the department is working on research work: "Features of modern psychosocial factors in the development of psychotic and affective disorders" (state registration number - 0113U001615).

Student scientific circle actively works (curator - V. Bilous ). Student groups annually perform scientific works and report on student scientific conferences, take part in the All-Ukrainian Olympiad on "Psychiatry and Narcology", where traditionally get high places.