18 results match your criteria: "Maharashtra Institute of Mental Health[Affiliation]"
Medicolegal Issues with Reference to NDPS and MHCA in Management and Rehabilitation of Persons with Substance Use Disorders.
Indian J Psychiatry
March 2022
Maharashtra Institute of Mental Health, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
Vision centre helps reduce blindness and vision impairment. Proof of concept in a four-year longitudinal study in an urban area in India.
Indian J Ophthalmol
May 2022
Operation Eyesight Universal, PGR ICARE Campus, Kismatpur, Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
Purpose: To estimate the prevalence of blindness and severe visual impairment (SVI) by using a door-to-door screening and vision center (VC) examination strategy in an urban area in western Maharashtra (Pune), India and repeat the exercise after 4 years to study its impact.
Methods: Four trained community health workers measured the visual acuity and performed an external ocular examination in patients' homes. People with vision <6/18 were requested to visit the VC for a comprehensive eye examination by an optometrist.
An Indian, Comic-based, Online-EEG Paradigm for Theory of Mind: An Exploratory, Pilot Study on Schizophrenia Patients.
Indian J Psychol Med
January 2018
Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India.
Background: False-belief (FB) tasks are used to assess the theory of mind (ToM) functioning, which has been found to be impaired in schizophrenia. FB task stimuli used so far in neuroimaging studies in schizophrenia have been sentence-based ones. We aimed to validate an Indian, colour-comic based FB task by using an online-electroencephalogram (EEG) paradigm discriminating schizophrenia patients and healthy controls.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA study of psychiatric referrals for fitness for work.
Ind Psychiatry J
January 2017
Department of Psychiatry, Dr D.Y. Patil Medical College, Hospital and Research Center, Dr D Y Patil University, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
Background: There are very few Indian studies regarding the psychiatric evaluation of state government workers referred for psychiatric fitness for work.
Aim: This study aimed to examine the reasons for referral, psychiatric diagnosis, and outcome of psychiatric referrals for fitness for work at a tertiary-level referral government hospital.
Materials And Methods: The study evaluated consecutive psychiatric referrals at a tertiary-level referral government hospital with their informed consent utilizing a specially prepared pro forma, Kuppuswamy's Socioeconomic Status Scale and the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview plus.
Feasibility, acceptability and clinical utility of the Cultural Formulation Interview: mixed-methods results from the DSM-5 international field trial.
Br J Psychiatry
April 2017
Roberto Lewis-Fernández, MD, MTS, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University and New York State Center of Excellence for Cultural Competence, Anxiety Disorders Clinic, and Hispanic Treatment Program, at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, USA; Neil Krishan Aggarwal, MD, MBA, MA, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University and New York State Center of Excellence for Cultural Competence at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, USA; Peter C. Lam, MPH, New York State Center of Excellence for Cultural Competence at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, USA; Hanga Galfalvy, PhD, Departments of Psychiatry and Biostatistics, Columbia University and Division of Biostatistics, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, USA; Mitchell G. Weiss, MD, PhD, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and University of Basel, Basel Switzerland; Laurence J. Kirmayer, MD, Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University and Culture & Mental Health Research Unit, Institute of Community & Family Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Vasudeo Paralikar, MBBS, MD, PhD, Psychiatry Unit, King Edward Memorial Hospital, Pune, India; Smita N. Deshpande, MD, DPM, Department of Psychiatry, Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi, India; Esperanza Díaz, MD, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; Andel V. Nicasio, MSEd, New York State Center of Excellence for Cultural Competence at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, USA; Marit Boiler, MPH, New York State Center of Excellence for Cultural Competence at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, USA; Renato D. Alarcón, MD, MPH, Department of Psychiatry, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA and Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru; Hans Rohlof, MD, Centrum '45, Oegstgeest, the Netherlands; Simon Groen, MA, Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and De Evenaar Centre for Transcultural Psychiatry, GGZ Drenthe Mental Health Care, Assen, The Netherlands; Rob C. J. van Dijk, MSc, Parnassia Psychiatric Institute, The Hague, The Netherlands; Sushrut Jadhav, MBBS, MD, MRCPsych, PhD, Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK; Sanjeev Sarmukaddam, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, Maharashtra Institute of Mental Health, Sassoon Govt. Hospital Campus, Pune, India; David Ndetei, MBChB, DPM, MRCPsych, FRCPsych, MD, DSc, Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi and Africa Mental Health Foundation, Nairobi, Kenya; Monica Z. Scalco, MD, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto and Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Kavoos Bassiri, MS, LMFT, LPCC, CGP, Richmond Area Multi-Services Inc. and Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA; Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, MD, PhD, Department of Internal Medicine and Center for Reducing Health Disparities, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California, USA; Hendry Ton, MD, MS, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Center for Reducing Health Disparities, University of California, Davis and Asian Pacific Community Counseling-Transcultural Wellness Center, Sacramento, California, USA; Joseph Westermeyer, MD, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota and Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; Johann M. Vega-Dienstmaier, MD, Department of Psychiatry, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia and Hospital Nacional Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru.
There is a need for clinical tools to identify cultural issues in diagnostic assessment.To assess the feasibility, acceptability and clinical utility of the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) in routine clinical practice.Mixed-methods evaluation of field trial data from six countries.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSerum Oxytocin Concentration in Patients Receiving Electroconvulsive Therapy: An Exploratory Study and Review of Literature.
J ECT
June 2017
From the *Shanti Nursing Home, Aurangabad; †Department of Psychiatry, Peoples' College of Medical Sciences, Bhopal; ‡Maharashtra Institute of Mental Health, Pune; §Department of Psychiatry, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, Sion, Mumbai; and ∥Department of Psychopharmacology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India.
Background: Neuroendocrine biomarkers have long been studied in the context of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). We prospectively assessed serum oxytocin change and moderators thereof in an exploratory study of patients receiving ECT.
Methods: Serum oxytocin concentrations were assessed immediately before and 1 to 3 minutes after the first ECT in 33 patients with schizophrenia (n = 14), other nonaffective psychosis (n = 6), mania (n = 10), and depression (n = 3) who received 6 to 7 bitemporal, brief-pulse ECTs.
Idiopathic REM Sleep Behavior Disorder: A Report on Two Cases with Contrasting Features.
Indian J Psychol Med
December 2015
Department of Psychiatry, Maharashtra Institute of Mental Health, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a rare parasomnia in which persons exhibit uncharacteristic violent behavior, while dreaming. Secondary RBD occurs due to some neurological conditions, psychoactive substance or psychotropic drug use. There are no case reports on idiopathic RBD in India.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBrief cognitive behavior therapy in patients with social anxiety disorder: a preliminary investigation.
Indian J Psychol Med
February 2015
Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
Context: Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is the treatment of choice in anxiety disorders. However, there is little evidence for the effectiveness brief CBT in social anxiety.
Aims: We examined the effectiveness of a brief CBT of six sessions in patients with social anxiety disorder.
Pregabalin dependence with pregabalin induced intentional self-harm behavior: A case report.
Indian J Psychiatry
February 2015
Department of Psychiatry, B. J. G. Medical College, Maharashtra Institute of Mental Health and Sassoon General Hospitals, Pune, Maharashtra, India E-mail:
Clinical value of the cultural formulation interview in Pune, India.
Indian J Psychiatry
February 2015
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Context: Development of the cultural formulation interview (CFI) in DSM-5 required validation for cross-cultural and global use.
Aims: To assess the overall value (OV) of CFI in the domains of feasibility, acceptability, and utility from the vantage points of clinician-interviewers, patients and accompanying relatives.
Settings And Design: We conducted cross-sectional semi-structured debriefing interviews in a psychiatric outpatient clinic of a general hospital.
Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome successfully treated with electroconvulsive therapy.
Indian J Psychiatry
October 2014
Department of Psychiatry, B.J.G. Medical College, Maharashtra Institute of Mental Health and Sassoon General Hospitals, Pune, Maharashtra, India. E-mail:
Interpreting "statistical hypothesis testing" results in clinical research.
J Ayurveda Integr Med
April 2012
Maharashtra Institute of Mental Health, B.J. Medical College and Sassoon Hospital Campus, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
Difference between "Clinical Significance and Statistical Significance" should be kept in mind while interpreting "statistical hypothesis testing" results in clinical research. This fact is already known to many but again pointed out here as philosophy of "statistical hypothesis testing" is sometimes unnecessarily criticized mainly due to failure in considering such distinction. Randomized controlled trials are also wrongly criticized similarly.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDisorders emphasizing symptoms of fatigue and/or weakness, collectively termed Neurasthenia Spectrum Disorders (NSDs), typically emphasize a biological basis in the West and social origins in East Asia. In India, explanatory concepts are diverse. To clarify, 352 outpatients in Psychiatry, Medicine, Dermatology, and Ayurved clinics of an urban hospital were interviewed with a version of the Explanatory Model Interview Catalogue.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDiagnostic concordance of neurasthenia spectrum disorders in Pune, India.
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol
July 2007
Maharashtra Institute of Mental Health, Pune, India.
Background: Clinically significant fatigue or weakness is a common but understudied clinical problem in India. The applicability and relevance of Western clinical criteria in this setting are not studied. Alternative criteria sets used in different clinical contexts suggest a range of conditions constituting neurasthenia spectrum disorders (NSDs).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnmodified ECT vs modified ECT.
Issues Med Ethics
April 2006
Maharashtra Institute of Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, Sassoon Hospital, Pune 411001, India.
Characteristics of patients with schizophrenia in two cities in the U.S. and India.
Psychiatr Serv
March 1996
Department of Psychiatry, Maharashtra Institute of Mental Health, BJ Medical College, Pune, India.
Gender-matched samples of patients with chronic schizophrenia were randomly selected from two metropolitan psychiatric emergency departments, one in Cincinnati, Ohio, (N = 47) and the other in Pune, India (N = 48). Severity and chronicity of symptoms in the two samples were comparable. Indian patients were significantly more likely to be married and employed than their American counterparts.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCollusion and entanglement in the therapy of a patient with multiple personalities.
Am J Psychother
October 1996
Maharashtra Institute of Mental Health, Pune, India.
S.'s therapy demonstrates some of the ways in which countertransference interferes with therapy of a case presenting with multiple personalities. Fascination with S.
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