Volume 8 Issue 3 March, 2018 ❌ Medicines can cure Mental retardation (MR) ✅ Medicines can only intervene behavioral manifestation of MR and not cure ❌ Cognition and Intelligence signify or mean the same ✅ Both are different and can’t be used interchangeably ❌ IQ means chronological age/mental age (CA/MA100) It is MA/CA100 ✅ […]
Month: January 2022
Down The Memory Lane
Volume 8 Issue 3 March, 2018 “Life is a teacher” Sitting in my consultation room exhausted hoping to have lunch received a call from my son asking ‘”where is the curry, where is my shirt” I told him it’s where about and was thinking how a mother’s life, whoever we are revolves around children. My […]
From The Desk of Editor
Volume 8 Issue 3 March, 2018 “Nanotechnology in Pychiatry” “Nanomedicine” is the science and technology of diagnosing, treating, and preventing disease and traumatic injury, of relieving pain, and of preserving and improving human health, using nanoscale structured materials, biotechnology, and genetic engineering, and eventually complex machine systems and nanorobots The vision of nanotechnology introduced in […]
Can You CROSS THE CROSSWORD!!
Volume 8 Issue 2 February, 2018 ACROSS DOWN ANSWERS ACROSS 4. Amphetamine 5. Cannabis 6. Altruism 8. Aaronbeck 9. Vascular DOWM 1. Hypochondriasis 2. Amygdala 3. Gegenhalten 7. Freud Dr. Priyanka Mantagi, Intern, MVJMC & RH, Hoskote, Bengaluru
MINDS QUIZ
Volume 8 Issue 2 February, 2018 1. Intense nihilism, somatisation and agitation in old age are hallmark symptoms of: A. Involutional Melancholia B. Atypical depression C. Somatized depression D. Depressive stupor 2. Somatic Passivity is seen in A. Depression B. Hypomania C. Body Dysmorphic disorder D. Paranoid schizophrenia 3. Which is not a cognitive dysfunction? […]
LAB MEDICINE AND MENTAL HEALTH
Volume 8 Issue 2 February, 2018 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry PATHOLOGY The mental health though considered as clinical diagnosis, need thorough lab workup to identify (Positive test) to rule out (Negative test), monitor rarely, prognosticate the disease process. To understand in brief you can classify the laboratory role: 1) To identify the disease process This is […]
BREAKING THE BAD NEWS
Volume 8 Issue 2 February, 2018 Doctors need astute clinical skills; they also need good communication skills. Doctors face the unique challenge of having to break bad news to patients and their families thousands of times over span of their professional lives. Disclosing unfavourable information is an act which evokes distress in both the physician […]
Down The Memory Lane
Volume 8 Issue 2 February, 2018 “Changes in source of learning” A couple of months ago, one of my patients who suffer from Bipolar Disorder came to see me with his wife. That day I had a DNB and family medicine post graduate with me doing her psychiatry rotation. “Doctor, my uric acid level is […]
Reframe Assumptions: Myths and Facts – Developmental Disability
Volume 8 Issue 2 February, 2018 ❌ Person with developmental disability cannot learn ✅ They constantly learn although at a slower rate ❌ Those with developmental disability are not employable ✅ They can perform wide variety of jobs/tasks when given a chance ❌ Developmental disability is a contagious disease ✅ It is not, it is […]
From The Desk of Editor
Volume 8 Issue 2 February, 2018 “Mirror Neuron System ” Mirror neurons are a special class of neurons discovered in the 1990s. Mirror neuron system (MNS) represents one of the most important discoveries in the area of neuropsychology of past decades. They respond when we perform an action and also when we see someone else […]