1. Department of Pharmacotherapy, College of Pharmacy, Washington State University. USA. ABSTRACT Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic condition that includes persistent widespread pain, fatigue, insomnia, nonrestorative sleep, stiffness, cognitive disturbances, anxiety, and depressed mood. The disorder produces negative impacts on physical and social functioning, health related quality-of-life, emot...

He sets out to examine the paintings of psychotics, to see if the symptoms shown are due to the illness alone or possibly to cultural background and secondly, whether the symptomatic significance is of universal or irrelevant character. In the course of the investigation various artistic mediums such as sculptoring, needlework and painting are studied. It is very necessary that in a concisely w...

Many drugs including anti-depressants and anti-psychotics are known to cause excessive sweating (hyperhidrosis). Hyperhidrosis may be caused by drugs acting at the hypothalamus, spinal thermoregulatory centres, and sympathetic ganglia or at the eccrine-neuroeffector junction. Hyperhidrosis can be distressing and embarrassing symptom, which if not addressed properly, may lead to non-concordance ...

As a part of designing a suitable model for mental health care delivery in rural India, a study of detection and management of priority mental disorders was carried out in 120 villages around rural mental health centre, Sakalwara in Bangalore District. During three and a half year period, the team attempted to manage 51 schizophrenics, 30 acute psychotics, 27 M. D. P. and 268 epileptics in the ...

In the present study 100 cases, randomly selected were studied at famous shrine of Rajasthan, the Mehandipur Balaji. As regards the sociodemographic variables, patients were mainly between 15-39 years of age, 80% were educated, 82% had Urban domicile, 98% were Hindus and Females were 54%. Majority of the visitors being from Northern part of India. Failure of modern treatment and influence of fa...

OBJECTIVE To examine the impact of implementing a clinician-carer communication tool for hospitalized patients with dementia. DESIGN Surveys were conducted with clinicians and carers about perceptions and experiences. Implementation process and costs were explored through surveys of local staff. Time series analysis was conducted on incident-reported falls, usage of non-regular anti-psychotic...

Psychotic fear and anxiety disturbances are seen at a relatively high frequency in patients with schizophrenia. Atypical anti-psychotics are believed to show superior efficacy in reducing these symptoms. However, clinical and preclinical evidence regarding their anxiolytic efficacy has been mixed. In this study, we evaluated the possible anxiolytic property of two atypicals clozapine and olanza...