Volume 7 Issue 1 January, 2017 Most of you who are reading this have obviously downloaded this file from internet and it hardly requires an introduction. We all invariably have access to it through one or the other form and spend varying amount of timeworking with internet. In this era of smartphones which most of […]
INVITED ARTICLES
BEING A TEACHER IN THE FIELD OF PSYCHIATRY
Volume 11 Issues 2 February, 2021 Well, what does it feel being a teacher in the field of Psychiatry? How did the journey of being a teacher in Psychiatry start? Once a month an hour for psychiatry, 5 batches at once for one faculty, turning up to empty lecture halls, later, the struggle to find […]
PSYCHIATRY NEWS TIMES: AGREE TO DISAGREE
Volume 11 Issues 3 March, 2021 The Asian Medical Students Association (AMSA), India is a non-profit organization consisting of medical students’ from across the country who undertake social work, conduct quality research, and create interpersonal relationships in an attempt to shape the future of medical fraternity and health care provided. Under AMSA’s wings comes the […]
COVID 19 & THE BRAIN
Volume 11 Issues 4 April, 2021 The infection COVID-19 caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus was declared as a pandemic on 11 March 2020.The spread via droplet and small airborne particles by even asymptomatic individuals has largely been responsible for the scale of the pandemic. Beyond the common pulmonary manifestations, the virus is capable of multisystem […]
VITILIGO:BEYOND COLOR CHANGES
Volume 11 Issues 5 May, 2021 We live in a world of multicolour. But when it comes to the human species, we do not enjoy the privilege of the diversity of visible light spectrum. We are controlled by our melanosomes and its functional byproduct-melanin. Vitiligo, in common parlance referred to as “leukoderma” is a condition […]
COMING OUT PROCESS: LGBTQ COMMUNITY
Volume 11 Issues 6 June, 2021 “You don’t fall in love with the gender, you fall in love with the person “ June is celebrating as a pride month, in which one accepts and celebrated in favour of LGBTQ community. Gender is of the mind while sex is of the body. Gender is between ears […]
Illness anxiety disorder (IAD)
Volume 11 Issues 11 November, 2021 There are many diagnosable psychiatric disorders. The persons struggling with those disorders don’t consult a psychiatrist. Illness anxiety disorder (IAD) is one of them. Who are the persons with IAD? They worry excessively about a medical condition or a physiological sensation like dizziness. The usual reassurance does not help […]
Mental Health in an Unequal World
Volume 11 Issues 10 October, 2021 For a long, our society has only recognised and emphasised health in physical terms only, but later the social aspects were added to the meaning of proper health. The perspective regarding health kept on evolving; still, the human civilization has not been able to comprehend mental health, the most […]
My relationship with Music
Volume 11 Issue 9 September, 2021 Bob Marley sang thus: “One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain”. No matter where we come from, we all love music. I was all of four years old when my exasperated parents first thrust a microphone into my hands, asking me to hum a […]
My journey in photography
Volume 11 Issue 9 September, 2021 As a child and beyond, I was fortunate to have had the opportunity to travel to various parts of the country and abroad. I was conscious that I wanted somehow to capture these experiences in a way that could be re-lived later. I was also drawn to books and […]