Volume 8 Issue 8 August, 2017 Online Gaming, Suicide and Mental Health Online gaming addictions share similarities with other substance addiction at molecular, neurobiological and behavioral levels. Games are played for pleasure and happiness. Due to technological revolutions cell phone and online gaming have taken a big boost in last few years targeting mainly the […]
EDITORIALS
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Volume 7 Issue 7 July, 2017 Fidget Spinners – Care and Concern Fidget spinners are small ball bearing devices that user can rotate between his or her fingers. The pleasing sensory experience provided by momentum of spinner is key to its use. People claim that these devices reduce anxiety and increase concentration for which there […]
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Volume 7 Issue 6 June, 2017 Psychiatry & Law The relationship, involvement and interference of law and medicine in each other is no new especially in modern Medicine and law. Ideally both are benevolent and non-maleficent where medicine offers cure and alleviation from pain & suffering while law provide justice for victims and penalize the […]
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Volume 7 Issue 5 May, 2017 Schizophrenia – A time line If there is one disorder that flashes in mind soon after the term psychiatry or mental health is heard, it would be schizophrenia, for it has been occupying central space in psychiatry practice and research. The concept has evolved along with the development of […]
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Volume 7 Issue 4 April, 2017 Autism spectrum disorders continue to puzzle clinicians as well as researchers. Exact etiopathogenesis still remains unknown and diagnosis is based on behavioral observation. As yet there is no definitive treatment for autism. Socio-communicative abnormalities appear earlier than repetitive stereotypic behavior; it is only around three years of age that […]
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Volume 7 Issue 3 March, 2017 World Bipolar Day and Bipolar Depression Depression is one of the widely known and common mental illness that not only among doctors but it is being spoken in public platforms also. Depression commonly refers to what is called as Major Depressive episode or Unipolar Depression, the latter name specifically […]
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Volume 7 Issue 2 February, 2017 Modern Medicine, Religion-Culture & Spirituality Have we ever thought that what would happen to our advices and prescriptions once patient leaves our consultation room? It may not be as simple as – “I have advised and he would follow it”. He goes back to his home which has its […]
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Volume 7 Issue 1 January, 2017 Depression – Let’s Talk! Feeling low or sad, loss of interest in activities that we usually enjoy, difficulty in carrying out daily activitiesbecause of the above, feeling heavy, less energetic, lethargic, no enthusiasm, nervousness, excessive worries whichcan’t be removed from mind as easily as before, changes in sleep and […]
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Volume 11 Issues 1 January, 2021 Guest Editorial: The charm of psychiatry The pandemic has been a boon for psychiatry–about its awareness, importance and need to learn more about it and practice it. Psychological and emotional effects of the pandemic or the consequent lockdown were felt by almost all people, and were very bother some […]
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Volume 11 Issues 2 February, 2021 Changing research paradigm The clouds of the COVID-19 pandemic seem to be settling with the advent of various vaccines against the coronavirus. World is looking ahead with optimism and a sense of normalcy seems to be prevailing once again. Nevertheless, the sediments of the COVID-19 pandemic would take time […]