Volume 3 Issue 10 October, 2013 ❌ Persons who are possessed are aware of the things happening in the surroundings. ✅ Persons have partial or complete unawareness of the things in surroundings when possessed. ❌ Persons who are possessed do not have any impairment in social, cultural or other areas of functioning. ✅ They may […]
SYPHILIS AN ENIGMA
Volume 3 Issue 10 October, 2013 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Focus: ‘Microbiology’ The Austrian psychiatrist Julius Wagner Ritter von Jauregg tried inoculation of malaria parasites in the case ofdementia paralytica caused by neurosyphilis, which successfully cured not only associated severe mental illness but also syphilis. In 1927, this discovery earned him the Nobel Prize in Physiology […]
SUICIDE IN ELDERLY
Volume 3 Issue 10 October, 2013 There is a global trend towards increased suicide in late life. Developed countries show a second peak of increasedsuicide rate in the elderly (above 60 years). In 2011, around 8% of suicide victims in India were of age 60 years or more.The suicide rates in elderly in India are […]
Guest Column: Down The Memory Lane..
Volume 3 Issue 10 October, 2013 Wisdom to crosscheck the medications!! I think it is a common experience of most of us that our patients take lesser dose than prescribed. Most of them appear to believe that we prescribe higher dose than required. Once a patient of mine wanted me to suggest a substitute brand […]
Can You CROSS the CROSSWORDS ??
Volume 3 Issue 9 September, 2013 Identify The Famous Persons! Across Concept of Archetypes Coined the word ‘Dissociation’ Theory of Individual Psychology Father of Psychology Introduced the word Eragasiology Down The four ‘A’s of Schizophrenia ANSWERS ACROSS Carl Jung Pierre Janet Alfred Adler Sigmund Freud Adolf Meyer DOWN Eugen Bleuler
MINDS QUIZ
Volume 3 Issue 9 September, 2013 1. Which among the following is a neurotic defense mechanism a) Regression b) Humour c) Denial d) Repression 2. All are first generation antipsychotics except a. Pimozide b. Haloperidol c) Risperidone d) Thoridazine 3. The onset of autism is usually before the age of a) 3 years b) 4 […]
Awareness Reframe Assumption: Myths & Facts about Dissociative [conversion] disorders: F 44
Volume 3 Issue 9 September, 2013 ❌ Conversion disorder is synonymous with Malingering ✅ Conversion disorder is a mental illness characterized by the loss or alteration of physical functioning withoutany physiological reason. These physical symptoms are the result of emotional conflicts or needs and areunconscious in nature. ❌ Hysteria is conversion disorder. ✅ Hysteria is […]
DEPRESSION AND CANCER
Volume 3 Issue 9 September, 2013 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Focus: Psycho-Oncology “The good Physician treats the disease, the great physician treats the patient who has the disease” said Sir William Osler. Likewise treatment of cancer patient is not complete if you do not address the associated psychological distresses withthe disease. Depression is one of the […]
MIXED ANXIETY AND DEPRESSIVE DISORDER (MADD)
Volume 3 Issue 9 September, 2013 This is one of the most common disorders in general practice. Consultants from other specialties prescribe Amitryptiline (Tryptomer) alone or in combination with chlordiazepoxide to most of the patients with so called ‘vague symptoms’. If one looks closely, ‘mixed anxiety depressive disorder’ would be the most common diagnosis that […]
Guest Column: Down The Memory Lane..
Volume 3 Issue 9 September, 2013 The confused patient who convinced me! This incident happened sometime in early part of 1980’s, after I started working inManipal. When I left the OPD after the day’s work there was this gentleman waiting outside the OPwhom I had seen as patient that day. When I looked at him […]