by Sir Wilson Jameson, K.C.B., M.D., LL.D., F.R.C.P. Pp. 200. Oxford Medical Publications. 20s. net. This is the most valuable survey in relation to outpatient mental health services in the country that has been made so far. It was prepared with the object of finding out what psychiatric out-patient facilities existed in England and Wales, whether these were adequate, and also whether there had...

BACKGROUND Psychiatric disorders are one of the major causes of morbidity. Development of newer drugs like SSRIs and atypical antipsychotics has altered the treatment paradigms. Various factors like cost of drugs, local paradigms, etc. play a role in the selection of drug therapy and hence, affect the outcome. Keeping this in mind, we conducted a study to delineate the various drugs used in psy...

OBJECTIVE To report the design and preliminary results of a mirror-image study comparing total psychiatric hospitalisation rates pre- and post-switch to aripiprazole once-monthly, an extended release injectable solution. METHODS A multi-center, open-label mirror-image study of patients (18-65 years) with schizophrenia to compare total psychiatric hospitalisation rates between retrospective tr...

For some time now, there has been an ongoing debate on the benefits of so called 'atypical' anti-psychotics (a.k.a. second-generation antipsycho-tics) over older, typical drugs in treatment of schizophrenia (Lewis & Lieberman 2008, Jakovljević 2009). Initially Geddes et al. (2000), followed by others, questioned the presumed superior efficacy of the atypicals and claimed that they did not perfo...

The awareness of the occurrence of mental health illness in younger age group has substantially increased in recent years, consequently so have the prescriptions of psychotropic medications at midlevel, primary care and specialty care level. In any given month in most cities in the USA which have an active Pharmaceutical representative community, practitioners are exposed to branded information...

Antifungals have always been considered as one of the astonishing discoveries of the 20th century. This is correct, but the real marvel is the development of antifungal resistance in hospitals, communities, and the environment concomitant with their use. Fungal infections have emerged as an important clinical threat, with significant associated morbidity and mortality.  This study is desig...

In this review report, an attempt made to present overview of schizophrenia & those drugs which are used in treatment psychiatric disorders as well some treatments for psychosis. 1908, the word was coined by Eugen Bleuler (Swiss psychiatrist). The use antipsychotics medication began from 1933 France. Laborit and Huguenard administrated aliphatic Phenothiazine, Chlorpromazine during surgery ...