Indian Write-Ups
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Prevalence of Co-morbid Depression in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus |
Dr. Biplab Bandyopadhyaya MD.DM, Dr Arunanshu Parlal DPM, MD Psychiatry High prevalence of Psychiatric illnesses are found in diabetic patients. There is 71% lifetime prevalence of Psychiatric disorder in Diabetic patients, most common is depressive and anxiety disorders. |
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Depression In The Arthritic Patient |
Dr. Kavita Sagarkra, MD, Psychiatrist, Mumbai. Caring for a patient involves not just the management of his symptoms per se, but getting to the psychological aspects of the disease. The author adroitly expounds these facts. |
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Tips in.. Mental State Examination |
A mental state examination should screen for depression, severe psychiatric illness and suicidal risk. It should be easily achieved during a 10-minute consultation. |
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Mixed Anxiety And Depressive Disorder |
| Dr.Sunil Mittal, Dr. Manish Kansal, Recognition of anxiety and depressive disorder in primary care setting is now considered to be extremely important in health care delivery. Every psychiatrist and general practitioner diagnoses mixed anxiety and depression readily. The condition is so common that about one in ten of the population is suffering from this disorder at any given time. |
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Chronic Pain Disorder |
| Psychological and Psychiatric Etiologies Dr. (Prof) Manilal Gada. MD,Mumbai Chronic pain is an ancient and puzzling phenomenon. Considerable advances have been made in the pharmacological management of acute pain but it remains the case that many patients with long-term painful disorders are helped only minimally by current medical and surgical methods. |
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Depression – An overview |
| Dr Amit Desai,Consulting Psychiatrist,Mumbai Normally human beings experience a wide range of moods, viz. normal elevated or depressed. These normally experienced changes in mood are transient in nature and do not generally cause any significant disruption in interpersonal, academic or occupational functioning. In some people however, these mood changes become more profound either as a result of an environment stress or even in the absence of such stress. This can result in disturbance in their daily functioning |
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Psychiatric Terminology - What do they mean? |
| - Dr K S Ayyar In India, psychiatry has been the Cinderella among medical specialties, more so with respect to the undergraduate medical curriculum. As a result most practitioners and other medical specialists are not aware of the specific connotations of the terms used routinely by psychiatrists. |
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Somatization - Its significance in Psychiatric Disorders |
| - Prof. Dr. Manilal Gada In Indian society, the psychological symptoms and associated disease, are not given the status of medical illness compared to physical symptoms. The Indian patients, therefore, use the medium of body more often for expressing their inner tensions. |
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Cardiac Diseases that Lead to Psychiatric Disorders |
| - Dr. S. R. Tarlekar Research over the last two decades shows depression/anxiety and heart diseases are common companions. It appears now that depression is an important risk factor for heart disease along with other risk factors. |
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Depression and the Menopause |
| - Dr Kanval Mohan Menopause is a natural physiological event, which is considered to have occurred after a one-year absence of Menstrual periods. Associated with a gradual decrease in the ovarian function the Menses taper off over a period of 2-5 years between the ages of 48 to 55. |
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Menopausal syndrome: A myth? |
| - Dr Lily Joshi Menopause occurring naturally or artificially (post-hysterectomy) may lead to certain changes in a women's body, owing to deficiency of ovarian hormones, though Nature does its best, to prepare the women for it, by slowly, gradually shrinking the ovaries. |
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Suicide |
| - Dr D Chandrawat Suicide has been an age old phenomena, which has affected attention of people from all spheres of life. It affects people from all religions, cultures and socioeconomic status. It has not spared the rich nor the poor, those who are affected/ not affected by illness. |
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Depression And Cardiac Disease |
| - Dr Nilesh Shah, Dr Dipti Gada Cardiovascular disease frequently co-exists with psychiatric disorders. Of all parts of the body the heart holds a place of special distinction in common thinking as the seat of emotion, effort and even of life itself. |
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