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Race/ethnicity and outcomes in psychosis
Race and ethnicity are known to profoundly influence the epidemiology and outcomes of psychiatric and other medical disorders (). The distribution of medical diagnoses differs among minority ethnic gr...
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Rajiv Tandon
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Sleep disturbances in pediatric depression
10 November 2011
Abstract: Depressive illness beginning early in life can have serious developmental and functional consequences. Therefore, understanding its etiology and pathophysiology during this developmental sta...
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Uma Rao
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234-247
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Neurobiology of self-awareness deficits in schizophrenia: A hypothetical model
21 November 2011
Abstract: Self-awareness (SA) is a cognitive ability to differentiate between self and non-self cues and is pivotal to understand the behavior of other human beings. For this reason, there has been a ...
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Mujeeb U. Shad,
Benjamin K. Brent,
Matcheri S. Keshavan
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248-254
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The five factor model of personality in mixed anxiety–depressive disorder and effect on therapeutic response
14 November 2011
Abstract: Introduction: Patients with mixed anxiety and depressive disorder suffer the sub-threshold depressive and anxiety symptoms and their negative impact upon quality of life. This study evaluate...
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Alirza Farnam,
Sara Farhang,
Abbas Bakhshipour,
Elnaz Niknam
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255-257
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Organic causation of morbid jealousy
03 November 2011
Abstract: This article describes the organic contribution to morbid jealousy. Although the true prevalence of morbid jealousy is unknown, organic factors contribute significantly to its development. W...
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K.A.L.A. Kuruppuarachchi,
A.N. Seneviratne
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258-260
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Overcoming cultural barriers to deliver comprehensive rural community mental health care in Southern India
14 November 2011
Abstract: Aim: To describe obstacles overcome in establishing and implementing a comprehensive community psychiatry program in rural India. Background: Studies in low income countries point to a signi...
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Geetha Jayaram,
Ramakrishna Goud,
Krishnamachari Srinivasan
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261-265
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Longitudinal treatment outcome of African American and Caucasian patients with first episode psychosis
14 October 2011
Abstract: The purpose of our analyses to examine the outcome differences between African American and Caucasian first-episode psychotic patients over the course of one year, to explore the interactive...
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Huijun Li,
Shaun M. Eack,
Debra M. Montrose,
Jean M. Miewald,
Matcheri Keshavan
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266-271
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A survey among psychiatrists regarding psychotropic drug use in reproductive age women
03 November 2011
Abstract: We present findings of a questionnaire-based survey for practicing psychiatrists in the state of Maharashtra, India as an effort to understand challenges faced and the strategies adopted whi...
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Koumudi Godbole,
Manjusha Vehale,
Sanjay Phadke
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272-276
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Immunomodulation in schizophrenia: A study among the Indian schizophrenia patients of Siliguri, West Bengal
13 October 2011
Abstract: Authors investigated the circumstantial evidence for autoimmunity in schizophrenia patients of Siliguri by considering the immune parameters like HLA Class I genes, IL-2 and IL6 and T cell s...
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Bisu Singh,
Nirmal Kumar Bera,
Chitta R. Nayak,
Tapas Kumar Chaudhuri
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277-283
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Screening for depression and its risk factors in geriatric population: A rural community based study
14 October 2011
Abstract: This is a rural community-based study for screening depression and its risk factors in a geriatric population. A proportionate random sample was collected from six villages in Maval Taluka t...
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Sharmishtha S. Deshpande,
Mithila Gadkari,
Swati S. Raje
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284-287
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Association of depression with social support and self-esteem among HIV positives
Abstract: Background: Depression in Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) positives has implications such as poor drug compliance, lower quality of life, faster progression to full blown Acquired Immunod...
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Vinita Jagannath,
B. Unnikrishnan,
Supriya Hegde,
John T. Ramapuram,
S. Rao,
B. Achappa,
D. Madi,
M.S. Kotian
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288-292
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Relationships between anxiety severity, diagnosis of multiple anxiety disorders, and comorbid major depressive disorder
Abstract: Patients with anxiety disorder (AD) are more likely to be concurrently comorbid with other ADs or major depressive disorder (MDD). However, it is unknown whether such patients show more seve...
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Masaki Miyazaki,
Aihide Yoshino,
Soichiro Nomura
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293-296
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Challenges of setting up psychiatric services in Nepal: Lessons from the first year of Janakpur Project
Abstract: In Nepal psychiatric services outside big cities are virtually non-existent. This paper reports the observations and findings of a mental health project jointly run by private and voluntary ...
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A. Jha,
S. Ranjan,
P.K. Pradhan,
T. Jha
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297-299
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Bhagavadgita and psychotherapy
17 November 2011
Abstract: This paper attempts to summarize the main postulates of Bhagavadgita, a sacred book of Hindus, with reference to their implications in psychotherapeutic context in the Indian sociocultural s...
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J.P. Balodhi,
M.S. Keshavan
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300-302
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Bhagavadgeeta: The Indian treatise on mental health care and promotion
Bhagavadgeeta, popularly known as Gita, is the advice The Lord gives to his disciple. Arjuna is the disciple and Krishna is The Lord. This is timed to have occurred about 5000 years ago. The context i...
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B.N. Gangadhar
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Practicing evidence-based psychiatry. 3. Interpreting treatment guidelines
Abstract: Practicing evidence-based medicine (EBM) requires the ability to evaluate relevant evidence for the purpose of making an evidence-based treatment decision. Broadly, there are three available...
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Ashley Clark,
Babu Rankupalli,
Rajiv Tandon
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304-308
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Book review
“Fundamentals of Psychiatry” by Allan Tasman and Wanda K Mohr (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011) is a concise introduction to the basic principles of Psychiatry. It has been written specifically for an audience ...
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Paroma Mitra
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AFPA news and updates
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Russell D'Souza
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310-311
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Early Career Psychiatrists Corner
The second Training and Education Fellowship Programme The Asian Federation of Early Career Psychiatrists (AFECP) has received a support from Indian Global Psychiatric Initiative (IGPI) 2012, taking p...
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