Category neuropsychiatry
what next in medical practice
An international survey reports that only 6% of doctors are happy with their patient care jobs. They commit suicide at twice the rate of the general population. Over half are unsure they would recommend the practice of medicine to young people. Especially, in a country like India with increasing violence and less security, doctors want […]
medical ethics
+ Author Affiliations 1Imperial College London, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, London, UK 2Emeritus Professor of General Practice, King’s College, London, UK. Correspondence to Raanan Gillon, Emeritus Professor of Medical Ethics Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, Charing Cross Campus, London W6 8RP, UK or 42 Brynmaer Road, London, […]
When Tears Fall at Starbucks
Published on September 10, 2016Featured in: Editor’s Picks, Healthcare, Pharmaceutical, Social Impact, The Weekend Essay LikeWhen Tears Fall at Starbucks799Comment74ShareShare When Tears Fall at Starbucks157 Louis M. Profeta MD Louis M. Profeta MDFollowLouis M. Profeta MD Emergency Physician at St. Emergency Physicians Inc., Author and Public Speaker on the Topic of Spirituality in Medicine I […]
three vital supreme court decisions
It is only May of 2016, but Supreme Court of India has already taken 3 key decisions this year which will change the Indian healthcare completely. It is expected that these 3 key decisions will leave a huge impact on medical profession and healthcare practices in India. As we all know, the Supreme Court of […]
अपस्मार’/Epilepsy
वर्गीकरण आईसीडी-१० G40.-G41. आईसीडी-९ 345 डिज़ीज़-डीबी 4366 मेडलाइन प्लस 000694 ईमेडिसिन neuro/415 एम.ईएसएच D004827 अपस्मार या मिर्गी (वैकल्पिक वर्तनी: मिरगी, अंग्रेजी: Epilepsy) एक तंत्रिकातंत्रीय विकार (न्यूरोलॉजिकल डिसॉर्डर) है जिसमें रोगी को बार-बार दौरे पड़ते है। मस्तिष्क में किसी गड़बड़ी के कारण बार-बार दौरे पड़ने की समस्या हो जाती है।[1] दौरे के समय व्यक्ति का दिमागी […]
nervous system
तन्त्रिका तन्त्र मानव का तंत्रिकातंत्र जिस तन्त्र के द्वारा विभिन्न अंगों का नियंत्रण और अंगों और वातावरण में सामंजस्य स्थापित होता है उसे तन्त्रिका तन्त्र (Nervous System) कहते हैं। तंत्रिकातंत्र में मस्तिष्क, मेरूरज्जु और इनसे निकलनेवाली तंत्रिकाओं की गणना की जाती है। तन्त्रिका कोशिका, तन्त्रिका तन्त्र की रचनात्मक एवं क्रियात्मक इकाई है। तंत्रिका कोशिका एवं […]
Causes of depression in women
तनाव आज के दौर की एक ऐसी समस्या है जो हर वर्ग और हर उम्र के लोगों को होती है। आजकल लोग अपने मालिक को प्रसन्न करने के लिए अपने ऊपर अतिरिक्त तनाव ले लेते हैं। तनाव तब होता है जब जो काम आप चाहते थे वो न हो। तनाव के शिकार हर व्यक्ति के […]
schizophrenia
मनोविदलता मनोविदलता (Schizophrenia/स्किज़ोफ्रेनिया) एक मानसिक विकार है। इसकी विशेषताएँ है- असामान्य सामाजिक व्यवहार तथा वास्तविक को पहचान पाने में असमर्थता। लगभग 1% लोगो में यह विकार पाया जाता है। इस रोग में रोगी के विचार, संवेग, तथा व्यवहार में आसामान्य बदलाव आ जाते हैं जिनके कारण वह कुछ समय लिए अपनी जिम्मेदारियों तथा अपनी देखभाल […]
American doctors are killing themselves
Gabrielle Glaser GABRIELLE GLASER 03.23.15 9:25 AM ET Greg Miday was a promising young doctor with a prestigious oncology fellowship in St. Louis. He spoke conversational Spanish, volunteered with the homeless, and played the piano as if he’d been born to it. He had rugged good looks, with dark wavy hair and a tall, athletic […]
NMC
Lot of controversies have been heard of about scrapping of MCI and introduction of NMC. Introduction of NMC is just not about the change of name but the whole system. There are many wrong self created misconceptions that has been deliberately circulated through social media to form public opinion based not upon facts but upon […]
udta freud
The intoxicant was the unwitting catalyst for many surgical breakthroughs“Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red. And if you’re forward you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn’t eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body.” Thus wrote […]
Irritability
Annoyance is an unpleasant feeling, but, like all feelings, it serves useful purposes. (“Annoy” and “irritate” have slightly different shades of meaning, but I’m going to use them interchangeably here.) To annoy means “to rouse to impatience or anger.” Think of it as a highway rumble strip on the edge of full-blown anger. It could […]
18 Behaviors of Emotionally Intelligent People
WELLNESS By Travis Bradberry / Inc. Feb. 12, 2016 Emotional intelligence is a huge driver of success When emotional intelligence (EQ) first appeared to the masses, it served as the missing link in a peculiar finding: people with average IQs outperform those with the highest IQs 70 percent of the time. This anomaly threw […]
Medical education
Why can’t the government do a revolutionary step in medical education by allowing all graduate MBBS DOCTORS to train a MBBS STUDENT (one student for one MBBS) AND all postgraduate MD doctors to train one MD student for a stipulated period rather like CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS do. The can there after appear in a central examination […]
antipsychotic in pregnancy
“Of course, you only give the drug because it is being used to treat a disease, but when the disease and the drug affect the same outcome potential, it is very hard to separate the two, but this is what they do very well in a very large sample of American women,” she added. The […]
CLINICAL ESTABLISHMENT ACT,IMA & MINIMAL STANDARDS
clinical establishment act- basics why the government wants it. The government wants insurance in health sector.The insurance sector is hesitant to enter in an unregulated heath sector . Hence the act Why the government is making a mistake. Insurance was introduced in American health care because American health care is inaccessible and very expensive. Indian […]
Major deficiencies in the Mental Health Care Bill (MHCB) 2016
To, The PM, We, the psychiatrists of this country represented by the Indian Psychiatric Society (IPS)(the largest Professional Association of Indian psychiatrists) request your intervention in the above mentioned Bill passed by Rajya Sabha on 8 th August 2016, that seeks to improve the mental health care of the mentally ill in the […]
Torrent Pharma
Brothers Samir and Sudhir Mehta have taken Torrent Pharma to new heights with a measured approach to business and by showing resilience in adversity Sudhir Mehta chairman emeritus of Torrent Pharma, with brother Samir, who is executive chairman “The chemistry works” is a phrase that pops up often as Samir Mehta narrates […]
Worsening Depression Points to Dementia Risk
Liam Davenport May 04, 2016 Older adults with steadily increasing depressive symptoms may be at increased risk of developing dementia, Dutch investigators have discovered in findings that suggest that worsening depression may share a common etiology with dementia. Investigators found that individuals aged 55 years or older who had had steadily worsening symptoms of […]
पागलपन क्या है
पागलपन क्या है? एक प्रकार का पागलपन एक गंभीर मानसिक बीमारी है. इस बीमारी से लोग परेशान है और बेतरतीब सोच, भाषा, और व्यवहार. वे देखते हैं, सुनने के लिए, हो सकता है, या चीजें हैं जो वास्तव में वहाँ नहीं कर रहे हैं लग रहा है. कभी कभी एक प्रकार का पागलपन के साथ […]
old man and the ward!
This i read on a friends fathers blog Mr. J.k Chandana i hope u all read it When an old man died in the geriatric ward of a nursing home in an Australian country town, it was believed that he had nothing left of any value. Later, when the nurses were going through his meagre […]
doctor-heal thyself
ew Delhi: The white coat, those knowing eyes, that reassuring voice when in pain, a mere glimpse of a doctor puts us at ease. Little does one realise that their back-breaking schedule, odd working hours and “emotional labour” during patient care sometimes takes a toll on doctors’ health, pushing them to seek help themselves. Dr […]
ibs
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)(Spastic Colon) Share This (See also the American Gastroenterological Association’s technical review and medical position statement on irritable bowel syndrome.) Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is characterized by abdominal discomfort or pain that is accompanied by at least two of the following: relief by defecation, change in frequency of stool, or change in consistency of stool. The […]
maternal depression
Back Maternal depressions alter the baby’s brain structure APADec 10, 20130 view No rating Maternal depressions alter the baby’s brain structure According to a study from Singapore, if a pregnant woman is depressive, this affects her baby’s brain structure. The children have a life-long increased risk of developing a mental disease, warn scientists in “Biological […]
Biporder and Schizophrenia, the Key to Genius
Added by Alex Lemieux on April 12, 2015. Saved under bipolar disorder, Headlines, Health, Mental Illness Tags: bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, darpp-32, schizophrenia In today’s society, mental illness receives and bad rap. After all, for centuries, and most likely even further in the past, the notion of mental illness was seen to be a taboo […]
Astounding increase in antidepressant use by Americans
POSTED OCTOBER 20, 2011, 12:46 PM Peter Wehrwein, Contributor, Harvard Health Remember when the best-selling bookListening to Prozac came out almost 20 years ago? Now Americans aren’t just reading about Prozac. They are taking it and other antidepressants (Celexa, Effexor, Paxil, Zoloft, to name just a few) in astounding numbers. According to a report released […]
A Nobel Laureate on ‘Successful Aging’ – Dr. Eric Kandel’s Epic Search for the Biological Basis of Memory
Eric R. Kandel, M.D. From The Quarterly, Winter 2012 Imagine that you are standing on a busy city street corner and you gather together the first 100 passersby who are precisely 70 years old. “In this randomly selected group, let’s assume that men and women are equally represented and that none of them appears to […]
The Electroencephalogram in the Management of Psychiatric Condition
By Nash N. Boutros, MD The Electroencephalogram in the Management of Psychiatric Conditions The electroencephalogram (EEG) has a limited but definitive role in understanding and managing psychiatric conditions. When the presentation is unusual, a neurological workup that includes an EEG is essential. In conditions in which EEG abnormalities are demonstrably common, an […]
Pomegranate Compound Could Stem Alzheimer’s
Keywords: Microglia; Neuroinflammation; NF-κB; Pomegranate; Punicalagin Scope In this study, the effects of punicalagin on neuroinflammation in LPS-activated microglia were investigated. Methods and results The ability of punicalagin to reduce the production of TNF-α, IL-6 and prostaglandin E2 was measured in culture medium using enzyme immunoassay. TNF-α and IL-6 gene expression in mouse hippocampal slices […]
difference between inpatient and day clinic therapy for depression
In a pilot study, German researchers investigated whether inpatient treatment of depression is more successful than treatment in a day clinic. However, no significant differences were found, they report in “Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics”. The study, carried out by the University of Heidelberg, involved 44 patients with major symptoms of depression. They were randomised to […]
mentally challenging work and leisurely pursuits can delay the onset of dementia
those at higher genetic risk of developing Alzheimer’s Disease, completing more school and going on to a lifetime of mentally challenging work and leisurely pursuits can delay the onset of dementia by close to nine years, says a new study. Preventing Alzheimer’s disease — with an antidepressant Melissa Healy Cultivating both early educational attainment and […]
Recognizing Early Warning Signs of Mental Illnesses
Major mental illnesses such as schizophrenia or bipolardisorder rarely appear “out of the blue.” Most often family, friends, teachers, or individuals themselves recognize that “something is not quite right” about their thinking, feelings, or behavior before one of these illnesses appears in its fullblown form. Being informed about developing symptoms, or early warning signs, can […]
For Now, Preventive Efforts Are Best Alzheimer’s Weapon
June 14, 2013 DOI: 10.1176/appi.pn.2013.6b10 Aaron Levin Several factors can help maintain the brain’s health as people age, says a geriatric psychiatry expert. “The brain undergoes a lot of wear and tear as it ages,” geriatric psychiatrist Gary Small, M.D., explained at APA’s 2013 annual meeting in May. Small has spent a career seeking […]
Vice President Biden Hails ‘Astounding Possibilities’ in BRAIN Initiative, Parity Law
Vice President Biden Hails ‘Astounding Possibilities’ in BRAIN Initiative, Parity Law Understanding of the brain and treatment of mental illness and brain diseases are at a transformative crossroads. That’s what Vice President Joe Biden said today as he presented the William C. Menninger Memorial Convocation Lecture at APA’s 2014 annual meeting in New York City. […]
developing human brain
A comprehensive three-dimensional atlas of the developing human brain that incorporates gene activity along with anatomical reference atlases and neuroimaging data has released its first major report online today inNature. This National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded resource, freely available to the public, enables researchers to answer questions related to the early roots of brain-based disorders […]
mental health act
CHAPTER XI MENTAL HEALTH REVIEW COMMISSION (sec. 73 to 93) 86. All proceedings before the Commission and the Board, shall be deemed to be judicial proceedings within the meaning of sections 193, 219 and 228 of the Indian Penal code. 91. (4) If the mental health establishment does not comply with the orders or directions […]
Continuing statins in critically ill patients reduces delirium
Continuing statins in critically ill patients reduces delirium Continued use of statins may help prevent delirium in critically ill patients who received statins before hospital admission, according to a new study of 470 intensive care patients in the UK. “This is the first study using a validated delirium screening tool, the Confusion Assessment Method-ICU […]
pychological autopsy
Suicide: Psychological autopsy, a research tool for prevention Created: 2005. Go to: Expert advisory group and authors Expert group and authors Agnès batt, Public Health Department, Faculty of medicine, Rennes Frank bellivier, Neurobiology and psychiatry, INSERM U513, Créteil Benoît delatte, Psychiatric hospital Beau Vallon, Saint-Gervais, Belgium Odile spreux-varoquaux, Pharmacology, Hospital Versailles, Le Chesnay, Faculty of medicine, Paris-Ile de […]
intergenerational transmission
According to the Telegraph, Dr Brian Dias, from the department of psychiatry at Emory University, said: ”From a translational perspective, our results allow us to appreciate how the experiences of a parent, before even conceiving offspring, markedly influence both structure and function in the nervous system of subsequent generations. “Such a phenomenon may contribute to the etiology […]
ten best for 2014
It’s time again for the year’s ten best from NIMH. A year that included a 16-day government shutdown and a 5.2 percent sequester also saw some outstanding scientific breakthroughs and historic changes in policy. Befitting the complexity of the problems, many of the breakthroughs were not individually reported findings but the cumulative results of several […]
Maternal depressions alter the baby’s brain structure
Maternal depressions alter the baby’s brain structure According to a study from Singapore, if a pregnant woman is depressive, this affects her baby’s brain structure. The children have a life-long increased risk of developing a mental disease, warn scientists in “Biological Psychiatry”. 157 pregnant women were involved in a study undertaken by the National University […]
How has the human brain evolved over the years?
How has the human brain evolved over the years? —Emma Schachner, Salt Lake City John Hawks, a professor of anthropologyat the University of Wisconsin–Madison, answers: Humans are known for sporting big brains. On average, the size of primates’ brains is nearly double what is expected for mammals of the same body size. Across nearly seven million years, the […]
Can Brain Scans Diagnose Mental Illness?
One common complaint about psychiatry is its subjective nature: it lacks definitive tests for many diseases. So the idea of diagnosing disorders using only brain scans holds great appeal. A paper published recently in PLOS ONE describes such a system, although it was presented only as an initial proof of concept. News reports, however, trumpeted the advent […]
antidepressants in bipolar patients
Page 1 Am J Psychiatry 161:9, September 2004 1537 Reviews and Overviews http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org Antidepressants for Bipolar Depression: A Systematic Review of Randomized, Controlled Trials Harm J. Gijsman, Ph.D., M.R.C.Psych. John R. Geddes, M.D., F.R.C.Psych. Jennifer M. Rendell, M.A. Willem A. Nolen, Ph.D. Guy M. Goodwin, D.Phil., F.R.C.Psych. Objective: This study reviewed the evi- dence from randomized, […]
in flight medical emergencies
Commercial airlines serve approximately 2.75 billion passengers worldwide annually. When in-flight medical emergencies occur, access to care is limited. Physicians and other medical professionals are often called on to assist when traveling, despite limited training or experience with these situations.1 Airlines partner with health care institutions to deliver real-time medical advice from an emergency call center […]
Alzheimer’s Disease: Imaging Key to Early Treatment
By Charlene Laino, Senior Writer, Gupta Guide Published: May 28, 2013 Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, Nurse Planner Action Points Increased accumulation of beta-amyloid in the brain is associated with gray matter atrophy and memory impairment in cognitively healthy older people. […]
syncope
Back Syncope Lyall A. J. Higginson last modified in November 2012 In this topic Syncope • Pathophysiology • Etiology • Evaluation • Treatment • Geriatrics Essentials • Key Points AudioSyncope: A Merck Manual of Patient Symptoms podcast Syncope is a sudden, brief loss of consciousness (LOC) with loss of postural tone followed by spontaneous revival. The patient is motionless and limp […]
deemagclinic
