Feasibility and acceptability of a community health worker administered behavioral activation intervention for postpartum depression: a single arm pilot study from India.

Introduction: Women in India experience high rates of postpartum depression (PPD), with minimal availability of screening or treatment. India has an extensive network of community health workers, known as accredited social health activists (ASHAs). While they are knowledgeable about most maternal-child health problems, they have minimal knowledge about PPD.

Efficacy of tDCS on craving in patients of alcohol dependence syndrome: A single-blind, sham-controlled trial.

Background: Craving is attributed as one of the main reasons for relapse in alcohol dependence syndrome. Neurostimulation techniques targeting craving in substance use disorders are being researched. Neuroimaging has shown dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) as one of the potential targets responsible for craving, with frontal dysfunction being quintessential in alcohol use disorder.

Postpartum Depression in India: Perceptions by Key Stakeholders.

While postpartum depression (PPD) rates in India are among the highest in the world, screening and treatment is minimal. Socio-cultural issues including perceptions of stakeholders play role in this treatment gap. Efficient identification and treatment of women experiencing PPD has great importance for not only maternal, but infant outcomes.

Capacity to Consent for Treatment in Patients with Psychotic Disorder: A Cross-Sectional Study from North Karnataka.

Background: Recently, the Mental Healthcare Act (MHCA) 2017 was introduced in India. Being a right-based act, it has made the assessment of the capacity to consent an integral part of clinical work. To the best of our knowledge, there are no Indian studies on this topic.

Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Model of Psychiatry Day Care Center in India: Its Challenges and Opportunities-A 2-Year Experience.

 Most patients admitted in day care center are suffering from schizophrenia who do not recover fully due to nagging negative symptoms and cognitive deficits which linger and persist making the patients unfit and unacceptable for employment. But regular employment can help in recovery. In this way, day care centers would help in recovery of patients and hence the need for these kinds of centers.

Prevalence and clinical correlates of depression in chronic kidney disease patients in a tertiary care hospital.

Background: Prognosis and associated complications of chronic kidney disease (CKD) may result in psychological distress and mood disorders especially depression. Prevalence and clinical correlates of depression in CKD patients in the Indian context are not well studied and established.

Materials And Methods: This cross-sectional study included 84 CKD patients.

How do Our Patients Respond to the Concept of Psychiatric Advance Directives? An Exploratory Study From India.

Background: Psychiatric advance directives have been incorporated in the Mental Health Care Act 2017 despite strong concerns about their feasibility and utility in the Indian patient population. Data on its utility in India is very scarce.

Aims: To determine the possible treatment options our clients make as a part of psychiatric advance directives.

Safe Administration of Electroconvulsive Therapy in Patient with Ventricular Septal Defect Patch: A Rare Case Report.

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a safe and effective treatment for many psychiatric illnesses. Even in cardiac patients, it is a low-risk procedure as compared to chronic use of the medications with possible side effects. Although rare, cardiovascular events during ECT remain a principal cause of morbidity and mortality.

A study of individuals with intentional self-harm referred to psychiatry in a tertiary care center.

Background: Intentional self- harm (ISH) is one of the commonest yet neglected entities of Consultation liaison Psychiatry. More researches in the field of ISH are needed to effectively manage this problem.

Aim: To study the socio-demographic and clinical profile of subjects of ISH referred to Psychiatry in a tertiary care hospital.

Welcome biological breakthroughs, supply psychosocial insights.

Human behaviour, emotions, and cognition are complex to understand and explain. It is even more difficult to understand the basis for abnormal behaviour, disturbed emotions, and impaired cognitions, something mental health professionals are trying for long. In these pursuits, psychiatry has traversed through eras of humours, witchcraft, spirits, psychoanalysis, and gradually deviated from other medical specialities.

Iatrogenic dependence of anabolic-androgenic steroid in an Indian non-athletic woman.

Anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) are increasingly being used by athletes and youngsters to become masculine and to loose body fat. Long-term consumption of AAS causes multiple physical and psychological morbidities. Research has also concluded that AAS have addictive potential and AAS abuse is commonly found with other substance abuse.