Publications by authors named "Bharat Navinchandra Panchal"
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- PMDD is a severe form of PMS that includes mood changes, anxiety, and physical symptoms, but little data exists on its prevalence among college girls in India.
- This study examined PMS and PMDD prevalence among students in Bhavnagar, identifying demographic factors, common symptoms, and comparing screening methods (PSST vs. SCID-PMDD).
- Results showed an 18.4% prevalence of PMS and a 3.7% prevalence of PMDD, with PSST demonstrating high sensitivity but lower specificity, indicating its usefulness in initiating further assessment.
Dissociative fugue is a rare disorder which has been described as sudden, unexpected, travel away from home or one's customary place of daily activities, with the inability to recall some or all of one's past. There is no systematic data existing on it and very few cases reported in the literature. Here we report a case of fugue in a young adult male who travelled 8 times away from his home during last 1½ year.
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- - Neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) is a serious and potentially fatal reaction to antipsychotic medications.
- - It primarily occurs with typical antipsychotics and is rarely associated with atypical ones, although there have been instances with atypicals like quetiapine.
- - This particular case is noteworthy because it involved a patient who had been stable on a maintenance dose of quetiapine (200 mg/day) for five years before experiencing NMS.