Volume 4 Issue 11 Nov 2014 MEMORY: USE IT OR LOSE IT!! Memory is an important cognitive function in all the stages of life, although we feel its ultimate need only in studentship. The popular image of memory is a neural super-computer of huge capacity and speed. However, there are high chances to lose the […]
EDITORIALS
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Volume 4 Issue 10 Oct 2014 (SIDE) Q!! Surprised with the jargon? Throughout the development of a child, important parameters are monitored are child’s developmental quotient (DQ) and social quotient (SQ). It is the child’s ability to develop various motor, social and language functions as desired appropriate for their age. Later, as child starts attending […]
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Volume 4 Issue 9 Sept 2014 EMPATHY HUNT!! First of all, heartiest congratulations to previous editorial team of MINDS for successfully coming out with the revised edition of “Glimpses of psychiatry for Doctors and medical students”. Indeed a great work!! Surprised? Let’s go and hunt what is most important yet often missing in a doctor-patient […]
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Volume 4 Issue 8 Aug 2014 STIGMA STINGS!! Friends…Mental health professional have always faced the obstacle of stigma in catering services to patients with psychiatric problems. Stigma is defined as a sign of disgrace or discredit, which sets a person apart from others. The stigma of mental illness remains a powerful negative attribute for the […]
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Volume 4 Issue 7 July 2014 Dear friends,With immense pleasure, I announce the first issue of our new editorial team!It has been three successful years for “MINDS”, and I hope to deliver same information, awareness and opportunity to learn in the forthcoming issues…. Studentship is the most important and enlightening period of one’s academic life. […]
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Volume 4 Issue 6 June, 2014 “Hasta la Vista” Dear Teachers, Friends and Patrons, It’s been a wonderful journey in the past year with loads of memories to carry through by the editorial team of MINDS Newsletter. This small endeavor which we started three years back has started bearing fruits and this would not have […]
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Volume 4 Issue 5 May, 2014 “Facebook”……Is it time to „face‟ the consequences? In 1971, the first email was delivered. More than 40 years on, social media has taken the world by storm. Social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, are now used by 1 in 4 people worldwide. Facebook is the leading social […]
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Volume 4 Issue 4 April, 2014 General Hospital Psychiatry-The emerging ‘supra-specialty’ General hospital psychiatric divisions are an important part of the mental health care delivery system. Generalhospitals have had an illustrious role in the evolution of psychiatry. They have provided a rich soil for the growth ofinpatient psychiatric units, consul tation-liaison psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine, med-psych […]
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Volume 4 Issue 3 March, 2014 Child Psychiatric Services in India: The Forgotten Majority!! India has 440 million children i.e. every fifth child in the world is an Indian! In our country, child mental health services have been neglected in the past 66 years after independence. Organized facilities for psychiatric care of children and adolescents […]
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Volume 4 Issue 2 February, 2014 The Same Sex Schism…What is it? The Same Sex Schism is all over the media and more so for all the wrong reasons!! Gay and lesbian persons have been the subject of much research and debate since time immemorial. The United Nations and other human rights bodies have postulated […]