Volume 4 Issue 3 March, 2014 Child Psychiatric Services in India: The Forgotten Majority!! India has 440 million children i.e. every fifth child in the world is an Indian! In our country, child mental health services have been neglected in the past 66 years after independence. Organized facilities for psychiatric care of children and adolescents […]
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Volume 4 Issue 2 February, 2014 The Same Sex Schism…What is it? The Same Sex Schism is all over the media and more so for all the wrong reasons!! Gay and lesbian persons have been the subject of much research and debate since time immemorial. The United Nations and other human rights bodies have postulated […]
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Volume 4 Issue 1 January, 2014 Mental Health Care in Primary Care Setting: Moving Towards Integration. Mental health care in primary care has been defined as “the provision of basic preventive and curative mental health care at the first point of contact of entry into the health care system.” Mental disorders are prevalent in all […]
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Volume 3 Issue 12 December, 2013 Electronic Medical Record (EMR) in current day practice Today the buzz word in the world is digitalization, with gadgets virtually controlling all our daily routine activities. Over the past decade, every major industry has invested heavily in computerization and so is in the case of health care industry. EMRs […]
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Volume 3 Issue 11 November, 2013 DSM-5: A New Era in Nosology? As a specialized domain within health sciences, psychiatric diagnostic classification has evolved under the influence of the biopsychosocial model. The complexities inherent in psychiatric nosology are so paramount that psychiatric classifications have been in need of explanation as much as the conditions they […]
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Volume 3 Issue 9 September, 2013 Finally, the much-awaited Mental Healthcare Bill 2013 was introduced in the Rajya Sabha by healthminister Ghulam Nabi Azad on the 19th August, 2013. Drafted in consonance with internationalcommitments, the Bill — that will repeal the Mental Health Act, 1987 — widens the definition of mentalillness; the proposed law defines […]
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Volume 3 Issue 8 August, 2013 “Glimpses of Psychiatry for Doctors & Medical Students” An ISBN coded book was released at KANCIPS 2013,which is a compilation of 2 years of MINDS, with Selected chapters. For our journey ahead in this endeavor to do more, we need your patronage. We are happy to inform that henceforth […]
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Volume 3 Issue 7 July, 2013 We have successfully completed 2 years of MINDS Monthly Newsletter, which was started in July 2011. It is because of wishes, guidance & support of all seniors, colleagues and readers that the task of editorial team has always been joyful & enriching. We are well aware that MINDS Newsletter […]
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Volume 3 Issue 6 June, 2013 In search of Preventive Science to appreciate what we have, before losing it!!! Some of the greatest works in prose and poetry in almost all languages is based on those experiences involving personal loss. Majority of these great works in literature reflect the void after the loss, with an […]
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Volume 3 Issue 5 May, 2013 To Acknowledge Ignorance All holy books speak nothing but truth. Even though many valuable lessons are conveyed in the form of stories, there are immensely meaningful conversations within these stories. One of the stories on Lord Hanuman is about his great adventures during his childhood. His parents being from […]