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July-December 2011 | Vol 33
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Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine is a
quarterly peer-reviewed international journal, published
under the auspices of the Indian Psychiatric Society,
South Zone.
The journal will cover clinical and experimental studies
related to psychology and psychiatry.
Articles can be submitted online from
www.journalonweb.com/ijpsym. The journal does not
charge for submission, processing or publication of
manuscripts and even for color reproduction of
photographs.
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Editorial |
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| Electro-convulsive therapy: A few lingering thoughts/doubts! |
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| MS Reddy |
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| Electro-convulsive therapy (ECT) was introduced in 1938 and has been in continuous use since then as a tool for therapeutic neuromodulation in the treatment of various psychiatric disorders. ECT celeb... |
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Review Article |
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| Alzheimer's disease - Not an exaggeration of healthy aging |
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| Krishnendu Ghosh, Pratibha Agarwal, Greg Haggerty |
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| The world population is becoming older now. The boom of the elderly population comes from public health efforts to improve living conditions and prevent disease, and from improved medical intervention... |
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Original Article |
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| Predictive value of depression and social support with respect to alcohol abstinence |
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| Parnika P Saxena, AK Mital |
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| Context: Two co-morbid conditions which have been found in high proportions among treatment-seeking alcohol-dependent subjects are depression and low social support. Aim: We attempted to... |
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Original Article |
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| Expressed emotion and caregiver burden in patients with schizophrenia |
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| BP Nirmala, MN Vranda, Shanivaram Reddy |
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| Background: Family's expressed emotion has been shown to be predictive of outcome in mental and physical illnesses in a variety of cultural settings. The relationship between caregiver burden a... |
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