INVITED ARTICLES

Volume 7 Issue 6 June, 2017 Mental health law in the Indian has been evolving over the past few decades, in keeping with improved delivery of care, societal changes, and the demand for enhanced accountability from a population that is increasingly aware of its rights. There have been rapid socio- economic, cultural, and psychosocial changes […]

Volume 7 Issue 5 May, 2017 Treatment Resistant Schizophrenia (TRS) can be understood in simple terms when patient continues to have significant symptoms that impede him in returning to functioning decently despite an adequate trial with at least 2 types of medication. There are elaborate definitions and criteria which describe resistance in detail like Kane’s […]

Volume 7 Issue 4 April, 2017 In the last 10-15 years, Autism is increasingly recognised in urban India. The term Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is becoming popular (“…this child is on the spectrum”, is not an uncommon statement amongst professionals) and encompasses conditions such as classic Autism, Asperger’s syndrome and even the milder form termed […]

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 […]

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), […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]