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Personality Disorders in Indian Psychiatric Clinics

Volume 7 Issue 3 March, 2017 Couple of decades back, the emphasis on personality disorders assessment and management in the psychiatric clinics across India was not much, compared to the psychotic and mood disorders. Personality disorders are often observed as comorbidities, affecting outcome of associated psychiatric disorders and as such, these disorder have negative impact […]

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Dhat Syndrome

Volume 7 Issue 2 February, 2017 The term “Dhat syndrome” was coined by Prof. N. N. Wig to explain the distress resulting from semen loss in people belonging to South East Asian culture. It is considered as a culture bound syndrome of the South East Asia. The 10th edition of International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10), […]

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Internet Addiction (IA)

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]