Duration of Adjunctive Antidepressant Maintenance in Bipolar I Depression.

Background: Antidepressants are used to treat acute depression in patients with bipolar I disorder, but their effect as maintenance treatment after the remission of depression has not been well studied.

Methods: We conducted a multisite, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of maintenance of treatment with adjunctive escitalopram or bupropion XL as compared with discontinuation of antidepressant therapy in patients with bipolar I disorder who had recently had remission of a depressive episode. Patients were randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to continue treatment with antidepressants for 52 weeks after remission or to switch to placebo at 8 weeks.

Involuntary admission and treatment experiences of persons with schizophrenia: Implication for the Mental Health Care Bill 2016.

Background: Involuntary admission and treatment experiences may affect the attitude of patients toward subsequent treatment and further outcomes. This issue has received relatively less research attention in persons with schizophrenia from developing countries.

Methodology: In this hospital based prospective observational study, involuntary admission, treatment and coercion experiences among 76 persons with schizophrenia, admitted under special circumstances of Mental Health Act -1987 were studied.

Catatonia among women with postpartum psychosis in a Mother-Baby inpatient psychiatry unit.

Objective: The aims of the present study were to determine the prevalence of catatonia in women with postpartum psychosis, describe its socio demographic, clinical and obstetric correlates and identify predictors of treatment response.

Methods: Data was extracted from clinical charts of 200 women with postpartum psychosis admitted to an inpatient mother baby unit (MBU) in India over a 3year period.

Results: Of the 200 patients, 20% (n=40) had symptoms of catatonia.

Comparison of 2006 WHO and Indian Academy of Pediatrics recommended growth charts of under five Indian children.

This cross-sectional study was undertaken to compare WHO and Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP) recommended growth charts compiled by Agarwal. 2105 children aged less than 5 years, attending 132 Anganwadi centres in Mysore city, were included by simple random sampling method. Weight and height of all children were recorded and plotted on both WHO and IAP charts.