-Dr Amit Pandey Volume 12 Issues 10 October, 2022 Mental health is essential to overall health and well-being, especially for cancer patients. Per the latest GLOBOCAN data incidence of cancer in India is around 13lakhs new cases (1). The sufferings of cancer disease are from all the strata of society, ranging from rich to poor, […]
Transcultural Psychiatry
Neuroplasticity – reforming lives
Volume 12 Issues 9 September, 2022 Neuroplasticity is something which we all have gone through , but not appreciated. If its existence and importance are taken into knowledge, neuroplasticity can do wonders. How frequently we blame our past experiences or circumstances for the way we are and how casually we just state, that it can’t […]
Our perception of beauty
Volume 12 Issues 8 August, 2022 Snapchat® was developed by two Stanford University students who felt emoticons weren’t sufficient to transmit the emotion someone might wish could be sent with a text message. It then evolved into one of the most popular apps of this decade, particularly known for its wide variety of photo filters. […]
Witchcraft wizardry and witch-hunting in India.
Volume 12 Issues 7 July, 2022 We all must have come through these terms at least once, have read it in some news or article and would have casually moved on from it because probably it’s no new occurrence. In history, diseases and devastations were considered acts of supernatural powers or angry gods or malignant […]
Increasing awareness regarding child health in young working parents; Boon or Bane
Volume 12 Issues 6 June, 2022 “Life is a balance between holding on and letting go” – Rumi. India is undergoing sociodemographic changes such as increased literacy, health awareness, rising corporate culture, working parents, and nuclear families. It leads to a particular stratum of young, working parents who are health aware and specifically regarding child […]
Neurodiversity
Volume 12 Issues 4 April, 2022 When we talk about ‘Normal’, we are simply talking about the most significant part of the bell curve- the percentage into which the most considerable number fits. Have you wondered what happens when you are towards either end of the turn and are considered outliers? The Human world is […]
DROP THE PHONE
Volume 10 Issue 9 September, 2019 Psychiatry as a field has been evolving since its very beginning and hence the spectrums of diagnosis have also expanded with the same. The spectrum to join the ever growing visual field of psychiatrists is the newest entrant‘ internet addiction’. Multiple studies have paved the way for the inclusion […]
THE GITA AND PSYCHOTHERAPY: A PERSPECTIVE
Volume 10 Issue 8 August, 2019 The practice of psychiatry in India is widely influenced by the collective cultural psyche of its citizens. In numerable stories with robust moralistic conclusions have been handed down across generations, serving as guides for improvement of self and society. Eastern philosophy has recently gained wide recognition by the scientific […]
HISTORY OF PSYCHIATRY/ TRANSCULTURAL PSYCHIATRY (THE SEARCH FOR MEANING)
Volume 10 Issue 7 July, 2019 In the times of gloom of World War II and its out comes, in a world torn a part and looking for meaning, Herman Hesse published his novel–‘Siddhartha’. The author teases pertinent questions about meaning of life ,inspired by his own depression and personal loss. How can human discontent […]
VISUAL SCANPATH IN PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
Volume 8 Issue 11 November, 2018 Eyes are our windows to the world. The current focus of attention on the role of eye movements underpinning adaptive functioning as well as psychopathology has certainly been a very unique development. This has been made possible by the advent of modern eye-tracking techniques. Simply put, to process a […]