Publications by authors named "Surbhi Batra"

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  • The study investigates how factors like marriage style, education, and parenting affect depression in married individuals, as previous research shows that family and societal influences impact psychological well-being and life satisfaction.
  • Involving 433 married participants from Istanbul, the research utilizes machine learning techniques—specifically decision trees (DT) and random forests (RF)—to predict depressive symptoms, achieving an 80% accuracy with DT and 60% with RF.
  • The findings suggest that these machine learning models outperform traditional statistical methods in identifying couples at risk for depression, paving the way for better support systems to proactively address mental health in married individuals.
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Chronic mania is a mental health disorder that has been described by various psychiatrists in the past but currently is not a part of nosology. Robust epidemiological data for chronic mania are lacking with regard to its prevalence and clinical features. The present case report is of a 48-year-old male with a six-year history of mood and psychotic symptoms, based on which differential diagnoses of schizoaffective disorder (manic type), schizophrenia, and mania with psychotic symptoms (with chronic course) were made.

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Neurocysticercosis is the most common neuro-parasitosis caused by the larval stage of . The most common manifestations include seizures and hydrocephalus. Psychiatric abnormalities are relatively rare but depressive symptoms are frequent in patients with neurocysticercosis.

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