Volume 5 Issue 2 Feb 2015 Building Compliance: An Important Skill Everyone of us, as health care provider, wish our patients to be ‘compliant’ with us. Any patient showing resistance to therapeutic advice is viewed as a great challenge & is criticized for.. Compliance (also adherence, capacitance) describes the degree to which a patient correctly […]
EDITORIALS
From The Desk of the Editor: MINDS Team Wish All Readers & Well-wishers a very
Happy, Prosperous & Successful New Year 2015!
Volume 5 Issue 13 Jan 2015 Ideal Mental Health- An Oasis?!! Mental health (psychological well-being), is the “psychological state of someone who is functioning at a satisfactory level of emotional and behavioral adjustment”. Can one conclude oneself to have an ideal mental health? Ideal mental health is truly a dynamic process which can be defined […]
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Volume 4 Issue 12 Dec 2014 A combination of the words “Internet” and “citizen”, which may be used to describe an individual who spends a lot of time on the net. Over many years, society have observed a transformation of citizens to Netizens for obvious reasons like, easy accessibility, easy socialization (even though pseudosocialization), easy […]
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Volume 4 Issue 11 Nov 2014 MEMORY: USE IT OR LOSE IT!! Memory is an important cognitive function in all the stages of life, although we feel its ultimate need only in studentship. The popular image of memory is a neural super-computer of huge capacity and speed. However, there are high chances to lose the […]
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Volume 4 Issue 10 Oct 2014 (SIDE) Q!! Surprised with the jargon? Throughout the development of a child, important parameters are monitored are child’s developmental quotient (DQ) and social quotient (SQ). It is the child’s ability to develop various motor, social and language functions as desired appropriate for their age. Later, as child starts attending […]
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Volume 4 Issue 9 Sept 2014 EMPATHY HUNT!! First of all, heartiest congratulations to previous editorial team of MINDS for successfully coming out with the revised edition of “Glimpses of psychiatry for Doctors and medical students”. Indeed a great work!! Surprised? Let’s go and hunt what is most important yet often missing in a doctor-patient […]
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Volume 4 Issue 8 Aug 2014 STIGMA STINGS!! Friends…Mental health professional have always faced the obstacle of stigma in catering services to patients with psychiatric problems. Stigma is defined as a sign of disgrace or discredit, which sets a person apart from others. The stigma of mental illness remains a powerful negative attribute for the […]
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Volume 4 Issue 7 July 2014 Dear friends,With immense pleasure, I announce the first issue of our new editorial team!It has been three successful years for “MINDS”, and I hope to deliver same information, awareness and opportunity to learn in the forthcoming issues…. Studentship is the most important and enlightening period of one’s academic life. […]
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Volume 4 Issue 6 June, 2014 “Hasta la Vista” Dear Teachers, Friends and Patrons, It’s been a wonderful journey in the past year with loads of memories to carry through by the editorial team of MINDS Newsletter. This small endeavor which we started three years back has started bearing fruits and this would not have […]
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Volume 4 Issue 5 May, 2014 “Facebook”……Is it time to „face‟ the consequences? In 1971, the first email was delivered. More than 40 years on, social media has taken the world by storm. Social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, are now used by 1 in 4 people worldwide. Facebook is the leading social […]