Volume 7 Issue 6 June, 2017 1. All the following are related to legal responsibility of an insane person except a) Mc Naughten’s rule b) Durham’s rule c) Curren’s rule d) Rule of nine 2. An alcohol addict produced to magistrate after an assault on his neighbor. He had irrelevant talk, disorientation and tremulousness when […]
Reframe Assumptions: Myths & Facts about ‘Narcoanalysis’
Volume 7 Issue 6 June, 2017 ❌ Narcoanalysis is a type of hypnotism. ✅ Narcoanalysis is a diagnostic and psychotherapeutic procedure where the subject is taken to a twilight state by drugs mainly barbiturates in which mental elements with strong associated affects come to the surface, where they can be exploited by the therapist. ❌ […]
Crime and Mental Illness – Judicial Perspective
Volume 7 Issue 6 June, 2017 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Focus: Forensic Medicine A crime is a voluntary act which is an outcome of intent to cause an evil consequence. There may be no crime of any nature without an evil mind. The concurrence of act and guilty mind constitutes a crime. This theory has its […]
Mental Health Legislation in India: Birds eye view
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 […]
Down The Memory Lane
Volume 7 Issue 6 June, 2017 Value of Ethical practice It was a decade and a half ago when I started working as lecturer in psychiatry in a general hospital. I came across a graduate patient with alcohol dependence syndrome whose family was fed up with his irresponsible behavior when he is inebriated. Twice he […]
From the Desk of Editor
Volume 7 Issue 6 June, 2017 Psychiatry & Law The relationship, involvement and interference of law and medicine in each other is no new especially in modern Medicine and law. Ideally both are benevolent and non-maleficent where medicine offers cure and alleviation from pain & suffering while law provide justice for victims and penalize the […]
Down The Memory Lane
Volume 7 Issue 5 May, 2017 Menders of Mind It happened during my PGCET preparations and I had been in a confusion deciding as to what subject take up for my specialization. I was keen to take up OBG to make a name and fame. It was a sunny day when my friend invited me […]
Can you cross the crosswords!!
Volume 7 Issue 5 May, 2017 Across 2. Other name for negativism 3. Most common complication of catatonia 4. Hyperpyrexia occurs in this type of catatonia 7. Class of drugs associated with development of catatonia 8. Extreme form of automatic obedience Down 1. Drug class of choice to treat catatonia 5. Decreased activity of this […]
MINDS QUIZ
Volume 7 Issue 5 May, 2017 1. Which scientist hypothesized catatonia as an evolutionary “fear response”? a) Sigmund Freud b) Kahlbaum c) Andrew Moskowitz d) Northoff 2. The deficiency of which neurotransmitter action can explain most of the motor symptoms of catatonia? a) Glutamate b) GABA c) Acetylcholine d) Noradrenaline 3. The first sign of […]
Reframe Assumptions: Myths & Facts about ‘Schizophrenia’
Volume 7 Issue 5 May, 2017 ❌ If a patient has delusions, schizophrenia can be diagnosed. ✅ Delusions are not an essential criteria in any manuals for diagnosis of schizophrenia but commonly present in schizophrenia. ❌ Schizophrenia has two types of symptoms namely positive and negative symptoms. ✅ This view has been broadened and now […]