Volume-1 Issue-5 November, 2011 ❌ Once a person quits alcohol after de-addiction he will never relapse again. ✅ Majority of patients have recurrent relapse & hence treating team should develop rapport with patients. ❌ Disulfiram is given immediately once the patient or their relatives seek help for problems due to alcohol. ✅ Patients are assessed, […]
Clinically relevant interface between Dermatology & Psychiatry
Volume-1 Issue-5 November, 2011 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry, Focus: Dermatology For generations people have been aware of profound impact the skin disorders have on psychosocial aspects of individuals and vice versa. It is recently that we have been able understand the biological connection between them. Psychocutaneous disorders encompass a wide variety of dermatological diseases that may […]
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, […]
From the desk of Editor
Volume-1 Issue-5 NOvember, 2011 Between Regular & Odds, standardizing mindset of faculty to that of students! Although it has been debated for long on whether it should be mandatory for students to attend required number of classes in medical colleges or is it just enough for student to display necessary skills at end of each […]
MIND QUIZ
Volume-1 Issue-5 NOvember, 2011 An exclusive Section for Undergraduates and Postgraduates 1. The first antipsychotic drug discovered was______________ 2. Treatment of choice in post partum depression with high suicidal behaviour_______ 3. According to WHO ICD‐10 classification, Mania can be diagnosed if symptoms persist for_________ 4. An antidepressant drug approved in management of smoking cessation ___________ […]
MIND CROSSWORD
Volume-1 Issue-5 November, 2011 Can you CROSS the CROSSWORD?? !! Across: 1. Most common type of delusion is characterized by (8) 3. One of the adverse effects of antipsychotics characterized by abnormal movements (10) 6. Abbreviation for depressive disorder in winter (3) 7. A known culture bound syndrome in India (4) Down: 1. A dream […]
MIND QUIZ
Volume-1 Issue-4 October, 2011 An exclusive Section for Undergraduates and Postgraduates Approximate percentage of alcohol in spirits like whisky, gin, brandy, vodka is __________ 2. Hallucination is a disorder of__________ 3. According to WHO ICD‐10 classification Diagnostic Duration Criteria for Schizophrenia is _____________ 4. Most common type of Delusion is ___________ 5. Biological marker of […]
MIND CROSSWORD
Volume-1 Issue-3 September, 2011 Can you CROSS the CROSSWORD?? Across: 2. Disorder that can occur after major disasters like Tsunami. 4. Feeling of having experienced a situation before. 5. Methylphenidate is drug of choice in ______________. 7. Addictive substance found in cigarettes. 8. Most common feature of alcohol withdrawal. Down: 1. Father of psychoanalysis. 2. […]
MIND QUIZ
Volume-1 Issue-3 September, 2011 An exclusive Section for Undergraduates and Postgraduates 1. Most Common Psychiatric Disorder is_____________. 2. Delusion is a disorder of_____________. 3. According to WHO ICD‐10 classification diagnostic duration criteria for depressive disorder is ______________. 4. Mitral Valve Prolapse is a differential diagnosis for which psychiatric disorder? 5. Drug of choice for treatment […]
Awareness Reframes Assumption – Mental Health Act 1987 – Myths & Facts
Volume-1 Issue-3 September, 2011 ❌ Mental Retardation is covered under this Act ✅ Mental Retardation does not come under this Act as Mental Retardation is not a mental illness. ❌ Mental Health Act deals with regulation of admission & discharge of mentally ill and nothing else. ✅ MHA 1987 covers wide areas & includes definition […]