Volume 3 Issue 7 July, 2013 ❌ Bipolar disorders and schizoaffective disorder are one and same ✅ As the word Manic Depressive Psychosis created confusion because it conveyed the possibility of both, it is less commonly used. Bipolar disorders usually do not meet the criteria for schizophrenia. Whereas schizoaffective disorder meets the criteria for mood […]
Overview of surgical intervention in erectile dysfunction
Volume 3 Issue 7 July, 2013 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Focus: Urology Erectile dysfunction (ED) is a sexual dysfunction characterized by the inability to develop or maintain an erection of the penis. Treatment consists of education, therapies, medications, penile pump and surgery. Surgical interventions are indicated in cases of penile injuries, Peyronie’s disease, ischaemic priapism or […]
Forensic Psychiatry
Volume 3 Issue 7 July, 2013 The application of legal knowledge to the psychiatry and of psychiatric knowledge to legal issues is one of the subspecialties of psychiatry known as forensic psychiatry. In India, forensic psychiatry is still an emerging area. The legal issues pertaining to the mental health care in India appeared only after […]
Guest Column: Down The Memory Lane…
Volume 3 Issue 7 July, 2013 Symbol of hope Few of my contemporaries may remember this long time inmate in the female ward of pavilion 3. She was in her thirties and was always found moving around carrying a bundle wrapped in a cloth. She held it on the left side of her waist hugging […]
From the desk of Editor
Volume 3 Issue 7 July, 2013 We have successfully completed 2 years of MINDS Monthly Newsletter, which was started in July 2011. It is because of wishes, guidance & support of all seniors, colleagues and readers that the task of editorial team has always been joyful & enriching. We are well aware that MINDS Newsletter […]
Can You CROSS the CROSSWORDS ??
Volume 3 Issue 6 June, 2013 Across 1. Restless leg syndrome is also called as…..syndrome (5) 3. Brief episodes of muscle weakness in narcolepsy (9) 5. Dementia like syndrome in Depression (14) 6. sleep talking (10) Down 2. Impulse control disorder of stealing (11) 4. Pure form of methamphetamine is also locally called as (3) […]
MINDS QUIZ
Volume 3 Issue 6 June, 2013 1. Which of these antipsychotic cause maximum QTc Prolongation? a) Paliperidone b) Quetiapine c) Ziprasidone d) Risperidone 2. Which of these has anti suicidal properties? a) Sodium Valproate b) Lithium c) Carbamazepine d) Topiramate 3. Which of these has Antidepressant property? a) Varenicline b) Bupropion c) Acamprosate d) Naltrexone […]
Awareness Reframe Assumption: Myths & Facts about Crime & Mental Illness
Volume 3 Issue 6 June, 2013 ❌ People who commit crime are mentally Ill ✅ Majority of those who commit crime are not mentally ill. In fact people with mental illness implicated in crime neither have ‘intention’ nor ‘understand the consequence’ of the act, which is essential for culpable crime. ❌ Patients with mental illness […]
The need for psychiatrist support in cardiac unit
Volume 3 Issue 6 June, 2013 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Focus : Cardiothoracic Surgery Being a cardiac surgeon, we come across the colleagues in psychiatry less frequently. For us the important aspect what we would be looking would be the cardiac state and whether patient is fit for surgery or not and also in the follow […]
What to do & what not to do for publication?
–An Editor’s advice to practitioners & Medical students.
Volume 3 Issue 6 June, 2013 In a lighter vein, often I am asked to write on sex and its problems. Things are changing to some extent and recently requests are on issues related to publishing! However, I see both have something in common!! It is like ‘use or lose’ concerning both brain and sex. […]