CL Psychiatry

Volume 5 Issue 11 November 2015 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Focus: ‘Obstetrics’ Motherhood is a blessing to a woman. Rarely, it can become a curse when it is complicated by psychiatric illness, which could take out the joy of motherhood and in extreme cases endanger the lives of both mother and the newborn. With an incidence […]

Volume 5 Issue 10 October 2015 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Focus: ‘Genetics’ Genetic counseling was first defined by Sheldon Reed in 1947 and is as old as genetics itself. Once limited to rare mendelian disorders, genetic counseling is playing an ever increasing role in predicting, diagnosing, and managing various human disorders related to genes or chromosomes […]

Volume 5 Issue 9 September, 2015 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Focus: ‘Psychopharmacology’ Schizophrenia affects approximately 1% of the population in their lifetime, and is a chronic devastating illness with major impact on social and occupational functioning and activities of daily living. Therefore, maintenance treatment with antipsychotics is a core feature of its long-term management. The unpleasant […]

Volume 5 Issue 8 August 2015 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Focus: ‘ENT’ Tinnitus is an aberrant perception of sound without any external stimulus. Often underlying cause remains elusive and thus functional tinnitus is more common than organic one. Chronic tinnitus is so disturbing that it affects psyche of affected individual and impinges on the quality of […]

Volume 5 Issue 7 July 2015 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Focus: “Gastroenterology‟ Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a functional gastrointestinal (GI) disorder associated with high morbidity. It is characterized by abdominal pain or discomfort and altered bowel habit in the absence of specific organic pathology. Throughout the world, about 10–20% of adults and adolescents have symptoms […]

Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2015 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Focus: „Community Medicine‟ One of the most obvious, so far under-recognized factors in the development of key trends in mental health is the role of nutrition. Research has overwhelmingly confirmed the vital role of nutrition in development, management and prevention of common mental health problems like, […]

Volume 5 Issue 5 May 2015 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Focus: ‘Community Medicine’ Prevention is established mode of leading disease free life. Many mental disorders are associated with disability. Hence its prevention certainly can help in reducing disease burden & in turn improving quality of life of patients and society in general. However the prevention strategies […]

Volume 5 Issue 4 Apr 2015 Consultation- Liaison Psychiatry Focus: Urology “The biggest tragedy of all times is the defeat in the bedroom”- Aristotle The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Consensus Development Conference on Impotence definedimpotence as “male erectile dysfunction, that is, the inability to achieve or maintain an erection sufficient forsatisfactory sexual performance. “Erectile […]

Volume 5 Issue 3 Mar 2015 Consultation- Liaison Psychiatry Focus: Cardiology Depression affects about 20% of people with coronary artery disease & is linked to poor medical outcome. Depression is three times more common in cardiac-patients than in the general population. The prevalence of depression is higher in women than in men. Depression in healthy […]

Volume 5 Issue 2 Feb 2015 Consultation- Liaison Psychiatry Focus: Pain “Attending that session is a real headache”, “I am not calling him, he is such a pain!” All of us use such phrases in our day to day language. Can a session give rise to headache or a person bring pain? If I ask […]