Recurrent mass hysteria in schoolchildren in Western Nepal.

Aim: The aim was to study the clinical presentation and factors contributing to "recurrent mass hysteria" among rural schoolgoing children.

Materials And Methods: A visit to a school in a remote hilly district of Puythan, Nepal, was carried out to assess students experiencing mass dissociative/conversion symptoms over a short period of time. There was a second incidence of "mass hysteria" on the day of visit.

Mix headache: A valid clinical entity?

Background: Chronic daily headache (CDH) patients respond better with a combination of anti-migraine and anti-stress medications, irrespective of clinical diagnosis of chronic migraine (CM) or chronic tension-type headache (CTTH).

Hypothesis: "CDH: Mix headache" type is a valid clinical entity.

Materials And Methods: A total of 70 participants fulfilling the diagnosis of "primary CDH", aged between 15 and 55 years were taken up for the present study.

Central Institute of Psychiatry: A fictional journey to past in a time machine.

A fictional journey was planned and carried out in a time machine, to know and understand the glorious past of Central Institute of Psychiatry (CIP), Ranchi. As Dr. Anand, the protagonist, went through different periods in the history of CIP, he narrated his experiences while meeting different peoples in different clinical settings.

A factor analytical study report on mania from Nepal.

Background And Objectives: Phenomenological studies on mood disorder are rare in Nepal which prompted us to undertake the current factor analytical study of mania.

Materials And Methods: It was a cross-sectional descriptive study for which we did purposive sampling technique according to certain inclusion and exclusion criteria. The study sample consists of fifty patients, who fulfilled the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Edition (ICD-10) diagnostic criteria for Manic Episode and/or Bipolar Affective Disorder-current episode mania.

Wisconsin Card Sorting Test performance impairment in schizophrenia: An Indian study report.

Aim: The present study attempted to find out the relationship between positive and negative clinical symptoms and Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) performance in a group of schizophrenia patients.

Methodology: Fifty schizophrenia patients were assessed using the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) by a trained psychiatrist (TKA) and two groups, each of 25 positive symptom and 25 negative symptom schizophrenia patients were formed. On these fifty patients with schizophrenia and 15 normal control groups, WCST measures were applied by a clinical psychologist (SS) who remained blind to the PANSS score.

Absent posterior alpha rhythm: An indirect indicator of seizure disorder?

Hypothesis: Absence of normal posterior alpha rhythm is an indirect indicator of seizure disorder.

Materials And Methods: Study group consists of 116 child and adolescent patients in the age range of 5-17 years, with established history of seizure disorder. Follow-up cases of seizure disorder formed first comparison group, patients with a history of pseudo-seizures formed second comparison group and patients with a history of headache formed the third comparison group.

Buddha philosophy and western psychology.

Four noble truths as preached by Buddha are that the life is full of suffering (Duhkha), that there is a cause of this suffering (Duhkha-samudaya), it is possible to stop suffering (Duhkha-nirodha), and there is a way to extinguish suffering (Duhkha-nirodha-marga). Eight fold Path (astangika-marga) as advocated by Buddha as a way to extinguish the sufferings are right views, right resolve/aspiration, right speech, right action/conduct, right livelihood, right effort right mindfulness and right concentration. Mid-twentieth century saw the collaborations between many psychoanalysts and Buddhist scholars as a meeting between "two of the most powerful forces" operating in the Western mind.

Pattern of neuropsychiatric illnesses in older age group population: an inpatient study report from Nepal.

Background: Inpatient institution-based geropsychiatric study reports are rare in the world psychiatric literature.

Aims: To study the pattern of neuropsychiatric illnesses seen in older age group population and to study how the advancing age influences the pattern of physical and neuropsychiatric illnesses in these geriatric people.

Materials And Methods: This was a retrospective review of the charts of all patients of age 60 years and above, during a specified period of 3.

Pattern of buprenorphine abuse among opioid abusers in Nepal.

Background: Although buprenorphine abusers are a common clinical entity, literature on them is rare in Nepal.

Aim: To assess whether injectable opioid abusers are any different a subgroup vis-a-vis brown sugar abusers in relation to their demographic and clinical profiles.

Materials And Methods: Seventy-six opioid abusers, who were admitted over a period of one year, in our de-addiction center, were included in the present study.

Contribution of Indian psychiatry in the development of psychiatry in Nepal.

Psychiatric services remained virtually unknown in Nepal until 1961. The first psychiatric outpatient service was started in 1961, at Bir Hospital, Kathmandu. In 1984, the Psychiatry Department at Bir Hospital was separated and a mental hospital was created, which was later shifted to its current location at Lagankhel, Patan, in Kathmandu valley, in 1985.

Demographic and clinical correlates of substance abuse comorbidity in schizophrenia.

Seventy patients of schizophrenia were divided into two groups based on the presence or absence of substance abusing history in them. Two groups were compared on various socio-demographic and clinical variables. Thirty-eight (54.