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 […]
INVITED ARTICLES
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 […]
ETHICS & MEDICINE
Volume-1 Issue-2 August, 2011 Ethics relate to code of conduct according moral principles that have been the product of gradual evolution and refinement of man’s quest to discover ways and means to safeguard the welfare of a society and its individual members. The core principles, transmitted from generation to generation, happen to be similar across […]
PSYCHIATRY & MEDICINE: Towards an Effective Liaison
Volume-1 Issue-1 July, 2011 These are exciting and challenging times for an effective integration between psychiatry and medicine. For a long while, psychiatry was perceived to linger in the fringes of medicine. This was unfortunately a consequence of inadequate inputs in the field of mental health in the undergraduate curriculum. However over the past decade, […]