Volume 2 Issue 4 April, 2012 Stress is a consequence of or a general response to an action or situation that places special physical or psychological demands or both on a person. Small amounts of stress (‘eustress’) can have positive effects by energizing people towards goal, however excessive stress can seriously and negatively impact a […]
INVITED ARTICLES
Implementing a mental health support system for health workers, trainees, and students
Volume 11 Issue 7 July, 2021 Invited Article Health workers, students, and trainees in the health sector work, learn and train for long hours in unpredictable situations, constantly dealing with mortality/morbidity in an emotionally loaded environment. As expected, mental health issues are common among them. Current pandemic situation has brought to surface many latent mental […]
COVID-19 pandemic and Internet Use
Volume 11 Issue 8, August 2021 INVITED ARTICLE Ms. A has undergone a vocal cord procedure. She was advised to speak minimally after the surgery. She has a thirteen-year-old son who is not going to school due to the ongoing COVID 19 pandemic. He is attending online classes run by school for six hours and […]
SUICIDE PREVENTION AMONGST MEDICAL STUDENTS:
Towards A Model for Institutional Approach
Volume 2 Issue 3 March, 2012 Suicide remains the second most common cause of death among medical students in the United States, prevalence of which in India is not known. The question of motive deserves careful attention as “academic and personal stress” and “unsuitability for the profession” may explain why medical students take this extreme […]
Late onset Depression
Volume 2 Issue 2 February, 2012 It is a major misconception among many that depression is a normal phenomenon in the aged population. However, it is not true, as a majority of the aged population enjoy a sense of well being as all others. Late onset depression is considered a distinct clinical entity and is […]
Emergence of Psychiatry as valued medical speciality across world
Volume 2 Issue 1 January, 2012 `In 1975, when I was a junior resident in psychiatry, Milton Greenblatt1famously wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine about psychiatry as follows; “For many years psychiatry has been the battered child of medicine. Born in witchcraft and demonical possession, feared by the public, often scorned by the […]
Demystifying Electro Convulsive Therapy!
Volume 1 Issue 6 December, 2011 ECT: How is it given? What happens during ECT administration? Is ECT painful? In the contemporary practice of ECT it is administered under general anaesthesia, which is called modified ECT and is the standard recommended by many International Guidelines. The central point is to induce a seizure. As convulsions […]
Developmental regression in children
Volume 1 Issue 4 October, 2011 Two cases seen in our hospital recently are briefly described. These lead to increased discussions within us on the approach to such cases. The focus in this brief write up is to encourage the readers to inform themselves about autism when faced with such clinical scenarios. Recognizing that information […]
ALTERED BEHAVIOUR IN ADOLESCENCE – NEED FOR EARLY RECOGNITION
Volume-1 Issue-5 NOvember, 2011 The transitional stage of physical and mental human development occurring between puberty and legal adulthood is ‘adolescence’. It is derived from a Latin word ‘adolescere’, meaning ‘to grow up’. It is characterized by a number of cognitive, emotional, physical and attitudinal changes. These changes promote personality development on the one hand, […]
Disulfiram: Old! Yet a Beautiful drug of use?
Volume-1 Issue-3 September, 2011 Alcohol dependence or alcoholism is often a progressive chronic disorder which has significant adverseimplications on patients, their families, and the society. Treating alcoholism involves several stages. In the initial stage,acute withdrawal is treated by detoxification with benzodiazepines especially Chlordiazepoxide. Later stages attempt tomaintain patients in abstinence or controlled drinking. This latter […]