Volume 6 Issue 12 December, 2016 ❌Patients fake their symptoms in conversion disorder ✅Symptoms are genuine in conversion disorder and occur through unconscious mechanisms. Patients cannot voluntarily control it or fake symptoms like in malingering which is done with a conscious motive. ❌Conversion disorder occurs only in females ✅Though it is much more common in […]
Psychiatry & Internal Medicine – an inseparable link
Volume 6 Issue 12 December, 2016 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Focus: Internal Medicine Internal medicine and Psychiatry are sisters in the real sense. Patients having medical problems often have co-existing psychiatric disorders, appropriate diagnosis and management often improves patient outcomes. The origin of Psychiatry as a new specialty was based on the principle of inseparability of […]
Psychosis and pregnancy
Volume 6 Issue 12 December, 2016 Pregnancy is generally considered to be a positive phase of life with happiness and well-being. However, expected changes in the life style, social behavior and apprehension regarding motherhood would pose as a psychological stressor. Adaptations of maternal mind and body to the new role through hormonal fluctuations and increasing […]
Guest Column: Down The Memory Lane..
Volume 6 Issue 12 December, 2016 Being odd is being mad?! When I asked for Mr.N’s house, a small girl showed the house of Gomateshwara (famous statue at Sravanabelagola, Karnataka). A fully naked man cordially welcomes me into his house with a smile. His wife came into the hall and signed me not to recognize […]
From the Desk of Editor
Volume 6 Issue 12 December, 2016 Mental, neurological and substance use disorders: a ticking time bomb! As per the Global Burden of Disease survey 2010, the DALYs due to mental neurological and substance use disorders (MNS) have increased by about 40%. These disorders now constitute the leading cause of YLD (Years Lived with Disability). The […]
MINDS QUIZ
Volume 6 Issue 11 November, 2016 1. Which one of these is a dopamine partial antagonist (dopamine stabilizer) class of antipsychotic? (a) Haloperidol (b) Risperidone (c) Aripiprazole (d) Olanzapine 2. Which one of these is a typical subcortical dementia? (a) Alzhiemer’s Disease (b) Binswanger’s Disease (c) Fronto-temporal Dementia (d) Dementia with Lewy Bodies 3. Which […]
Awareness Reframe assumptions: Myths & Facts about ‘Tobacco Use Disorders’
Volume 6 Issue 11 November, 2016 ❌Tobacco use is just a common habit which most of the people have now a days ✅Tobacco use in varying severity is classified as addictive disorder in International classification of Diseases under Mental & Behavioral Disorders (category F). ❌Tobacco is not as addictive as ‘drugs’ like cocaine and heroin […]
Psychiatric aspects related to dialysis and renal transplant
Volume 6 Issue 11 November, 2016 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Focus: Nephrology Let me start with an incidence which shook me off from my slumber. I believed that my communication skills and ability to diagnose depression were reasonably good till this incidence. A well-educated middle aged male with diabetes, hypertension and end stage renal disease who […]
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders in Adults
Volume 6 Issue 11 November, 2016 ADHD is a behavioral and neurocognitive condition characterized by developmentally inappropriate and impairing levels of gross motor over activity, inattention, and impulsivity. ADHD is usually noticed at the pre-school age. Due to hyperactivity and impulsivity, child is often termed as difficult to handle, nuisance because of disruptive and intrusive […]
Guest Column: Down The Memory Lane..
Volume 6 Issue 11 November, 2016 Sexually ‘Unconscious’ In the early years of my practice in the 1980’s I saw a 30 year old mother of two who was referred to me by a neurologist colleague with a h/o episodes of ‘unconsciousness’ of one month’s duration. It was reported that she would lose ‘consciousness’ between […]