Volume 5 Issue 12 December 2015 Across 3. Teeth grinding in sleep 5. Compulsive buying an impulse disorder 8. Delusion of negation Down 1. A dissociative state wherein a person start a new life altogether. 2. An unpleasant or disturbed state of mood 4. One who does not socialize and is emotionally cold 6. Disorder […]
MINDS QUIZ
Volume 5 Issue 12 December 2015 1. Good prognosis in schizophrenia is indicated by a) Soft neurological signs b) Affective symptoms c) Emotional blunting d) Insidious onset 2. All are features of catatonia except a) Automatic obedience b) Cataplexy c) Catalepsy d) Negativism 3. Anterograde amnesia is seen in a) Head injury b) Stroke c) […]
Awareness Reframe Assumption: Myths & Facts about “Electroconvulsive therapy”
Volume 5 Issue 12 December 2015 ❌ECT is old and outdated mode of treatment. ✅ECT is a cost effective, evidence based treatment option even today and is also one of the lifesaving option in patients with high suicidal ideas. ❌ECT is a painful procedure which can cause brain damage. ✅Modified ECT is carried out under […]
Community Psychiatry in India: Challenges & road ahead
Volume 5 Issue 12 December 2015 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Focus: ‘Community medicine’ Community health service, initially concerned with communicable diseases, has taken holistic path involving personal services of mental health. However, community psychiatry is in formation and needs collaborative efforts to provide comprehensive interventions engrossing multifactorial causation of psychiatric disorders arising out of multiple stressors […]
Positive mental health: Are we paying enough attention
Volume 5 Issue 12 December 2015 WHO defines mental health as “A state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community”. It aims to discover and promote […]
Guest Column: Down The Memory Lane..
Volume 5 Issue 12 December 2015 Marriages are made in heaven!! I distinctly remember a case of my colleague in Davanagere whose mother and sister were treated by me for 2-3 episodes of manic excitement. After discussion and literature search he decided about marriage only in a family who had no mental illnesses! Checking of […]
From The Desk of the Editor
Volume 5 Issue 12 December 2015 Role of Spirituality in Mental Health ‘The greatest error of our day is physicians separate the body and mind, when they treat the body.’ – Plato Spirituality involves personal beliefs about purpose of one’s life, sense of connectedness to the universe and practices for searching the meaning of life. […]
Mental retardation: Role of early intervention
Volume 5 Issue 11 November 2015 “If you are slow, you simply have to start earlier”- Robert Lafon Going with this statement, the right development of the child must be ensured during the early years (0-6) of their lives. It could be because the early years are a unique window of opportunity to alter child’s […]
Can you cross the crosswords!!
Volume 5 Issue 11 November 2015 Across 1. Physical and psychological flight from one’s usual place 5. Disorder characterized by multiple motor and vocal tics 6. Withdrawal symptom of LSD 7. Unconsciously excluding anxiety provoking ideas and feelings from conscious awareness Down 2. Normal response of an individual to the loss of loved object 3. […]