Understanding and Managing Cognitive Distortions in Individuals With Schizophrenia.

Introduction: Schizophrenia is characterized by psychotic symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized thinking and speech. Patients suffering from schizophrenia incited by these delusions react violently in response to real or imagined threats; this engages them in violent behaviours and thus poses a threat. Sparse data are available for patients from India with regard to schizophrenia patients acting on their delusions.

A Phase III Prospective Active and Placebo-Controlled Randomized Trial of Vilazodone in the Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder.

Background Depression is a leading cause of psychiatric morbidity in the modern world, and the introduction of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) is a revolution in the treatment of depression. Vilazodone, a novel SSRI and 5-HT1A partial agonist, received FDA approval in 2011 to treat the major depressive disorder (MDD) in adults. This study conducted in India aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of vilazodone when compared to escitalopram or placebo in patients with MDD.

Hereditary Transthyretin Amyloidosis- Clinical and Genetic Characteristics of a Multiracial South-East Asian Cohort in Singapore.

Background And Aims: Studies of hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTRv amyloidosis) in South-East Asia are underrepresented in the literature. We report the unique phenotypic and genetic characteristics of this disorder in a multiracial South-East Asian cohort.

Methods: Patients with genetically proven ATTRv amyloidosis were identified over a 13-year period (2007-2020) at the National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore.

Endoxifen: A new, protein kinase C inhibitor to treat acute and mixed mania associated with bipolar I disorder.

Objectives: Endoxifen is a protein kinase C inhibitor. The objective of the present phase III study was to demonstrate the safety and efficacy of endoxifen in treating bipolar I disorder (BPD I) patients.

Methods: A multicenter, double-blind, active-controlled study was conducted using a daily dose of 8 mg endoxifen compared to 1000 mg divalproex, the current standard treatment, in patients with BPD I acute manic episodes with/without mixed features.

Frequency and pattern of radiological and laboratory investigations in patients with mental illnesses: A study from North Rajasthan.

Background: There are widespread perceptions that excessive and unnecessary investigations are done in many patients with mental illnesses. There are no studies from India looking into this issue.

Aims: (i) To study the frequency and pattern of various investigations such as electroencephalography (EEG), computerized tomography (CT) scan of head, magnetic resolution imaging (MRI) scan of brain, and blood investigations carried out by the previous doctors on patients seeking treatment in three different settings.

A novel transthyretin mutation V32A in a Chinese man with late-onset amyloid polyneuropathy.

We report a Chinese patient with amyloidotic polyneuropathy associated with a novel transthyretin mutation (V32A). He presented with slowly progressive sensorimotor polyneuropathy accompanied by autonomic dysfunction and cardiomyopathy by echocardiography. This mutation is likely to be associated with late onset and low-penetrance phenotype.

Combined diffusion-weighted and spectroscopic MR imaging in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

A 49-year-old woman presented with progressive dementia. Diffusion-weighted MR images showed abnormalities in the cerebral cortex as well as the putamen and caudate head bilaterally. MR spectroscopic imaging revealed marked asymmetric decrease of normal metabolites in the right basal ganglia, with concordant hypoperfusion on single photon emission computed tomography.