Psychiatric morbidity in an urban slum of Mumbai: cross sectional study.

Objective: To find out prevalence of psychiatric morbidity in urban slum community in Mumbai.

Methods: A cross-sectional epidemiological study was conducted in a health post area of Dharavi, a large slum in Asia. Systematic random sampling was employed to select households, the sampling unit in this study.

Use of faradic stimuli in a case of recurrent hystericial aphonia.

Hysterical aphonia is characterized by abrupt loss of voice without neurological or laryngeal cause and is preceded by conflicts or other stressor. This case report describes the use offaradic stimuli in a case of recurrent hysterical aphonia.