A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z All
Srivastava, Mona
- Koro - A Case Report and Review
Authors
1 Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Medical Sciences,BHU,Varanasi(UP)
Source
International Journal of Physiology, Vol 1, No 1 (2013), Pagination: 37-40Abstract
Koro is largely considered to be a culture-specific psychiatric disorder occurring primarily in Southeast Asian cultures though a large number of the cases has been reported beyond the cultural boundary as well, leading to a debate concerning the culture-specific nature of the syndrome. Classically it is manifested by acute anxiety associated with the fear of genital retraction, accompanied by fear of death induced by the thought that complete disappearance of the genital organ will result in death. Majority of the cases have been witnessed in male gender. Most of the female cases are from Koro epidemic. Sporadic individual case reports of Koro in female are very few.
Case report: Giving a psychopathological and nosological definition of this peculiar syndrome has also been problematic. In this paper, we report a case of koro in a young, Indian female patient. We briefly present the etiological factors related to the development of the syndrome, the most significant psychopathological characteristics and issues related to cultural specificity of the syndrome especially in a sporadic individual case.
Keywords
KoroReferences
- Agarwal SM, Divakara PG,Pramanik KB. Koro in an Industrial Setting. Indian J Psychiat 1994;36(1), 36-38.
- Bernstein RL, Gaw AC. Classification of Koro. (reply to letters) Am J Psychiat 1991; 148(9): 1279- 80.
- Bernstein RL, Gaw AC. Koro: Proposed Classification for DSM-IV. Am J Psychiat 1990; 147(12): 1670-1674.
- Berrios GE, Morley SJ. Koro like symptom in a non Chinese subject. Brit. J Psychiat 1984;145:331-334.
- Bracha HS. Human brain evolution and the “Neuro-evolutionary Time-depth Principle: Implications for the Reclassification of fear circuitryrelated traits in DSM-V and for studying resilience to war zone related posttraumatic stress disorder. Prog Neuropsychopharm Biol Psychiatr 2006; 30: 827-853.
- Chakraborty PK. Koro: A Peculier Anxiety Neurosis (A case report). Indian J Psychiat. 1982;24(2): 192-193.
- Chaudhury AN, Pal P, Chatterjee A, Roy M, Chaudhury BBD. Indian J. Psychiat. 1988;30(1):69- 72.
- Cheng S-T. A Critical Review of Chinese Koro. Cult Med Psychiat 1996; 20: 67-82.
- Chin CN, S’ng KH. Med J Malaysia 1995; 50(2): 175- 176.
- Chiniwala M, Cesar AA, Torres JR, Lefer J. Koro in an immigrant from Guinea with brief psychotic disorder. (letter) Am J Psychiat 1996;153(5): 736.
- Damodaran SS, Nizamie SH. “Incomplete Koro”- A forerunner for mood disorder: Two case reports. Indian J Psychiat 1993;35(1):60-62.
- Durst R, Rebaudengo PR. Koro Secondary to a tumour of corpus callosum. Brit. J Psychiat 1988;153:251-254.
- Dutta D, Phookan HR, Das PD. The Koro Epidemic in lower Assam. Indian J. Psychiat. 1982;24(4):370-374.
- Dzokoto VA, Adams G. Understanding Genital- Shrinking Epidemics in West Africa: Koro, Juju, or Mass Psychological Illness? Cult Med Psychiat 2005;29: 53-78.
- Earleywine M. Cannabis Induced Koro in Americans. Addiction 2001;96:1663-1666.
- Ede A: Koro in an Anglo-saxon Canadian. Ca J Psychiatry 1976;21:389-392.
- Gwee AL. Singapore Medical Journal 1963; 4:119- 121.
- Guarnaccia P, Rogler LH. Research on Culture- Bound Syndrome: New Directions. Am J Psychiat 1999; 156(9): 1322-1327.
- Hamoud NA. Koro-like syndrome in a Jordanian male. Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal 1999;5(3):611-613.
- Hes J, Nassi G. Koro in Yeminite and Geeorgian Jewish immigrant. Confinia Psychiatrica 1977;20:180-184.
- Ifabumunyi, O. I.; Rwegellera, G. G. C. “Koro in a Nigerian Male Patient: A Case Report”. African J Psychiat 1979; 5: 103–5.
- Kalaitzi CK,Kalantzis A. Cannabis-induced koro –like syndrome. A case report and mini review. Urol Int.2006;76(3):278-80.
- Kennedy B, Flick GR. Classification of Koro. (letter to the editor) Am J Psychiat 1991;148(9): 1279- 80.
- Khubalkar R, Gupta OP. Psychodynamics of Koro (a case report). Indian J. Psychiat. 1984;26(2):180- 181
- Lin TY, Tseng WS, Yeh EK. Chinese societies and mental health. 1995;pp.231-243. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press.
- Man-Lun NG. Vaginismus-a disease, symptom or culture bound syndrome? Sex Marit Ther 1999; 14(1): 9-13.
- Praharaj SK. Koro and Psychosis following Steroid Abuse. German J Psychiatry 2004;7(3):49-50.
- Rin H. A study of the etiology of Koro in respect to the Chinese concept of illness. Int J Soc Psychiatry 1965;11:7-13.
- Rosenthal S, Rosenthal PA. Koro in an adolescent: Hypochondriasis as a stress response. Adolescent Psychiatry 1982;10: 523-531.
- Tseng WS, Ming MK, Hsu J, Shuen LL,Wah OL, Qian CG, Wei JD. Study of Koro Epidemic in Guangdong China. The Am J. Psychiat. 1988;145 (12)1538.
- Van Brero, P. C. J. Koro, eine eigenthümliche Zwangsvorstellung. Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Psychiatrie und psychisch-gerichtliche Medizin 1897; 53:569–73. In Maria A, et al. 2005. Some origins of cross-cultural psychiatry. History of Psychiatry, 16(2): 155–169.
- Yap PM. Koro a culture bound depersonalisation Syndrome. Brit. J. Psychiat 1965; 111: 43-50.
- Yap PM. Suk-Yeong or Koro–A Culture-Bound Depersonalization Syndrome. Bull Hong Kong Chinese Med Ass 1964; 16: 31-47.
- Assessment of the Attitudes of Clinicians in the Emergency Setting towards an Act of Parasuicide
Authors
1 Department of Psychiatry IMS, B.H.U., Varanasi-5, IN
2 Department of Psychiatry IMS, B.H.U., Varanasi 5, IN
Source
Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development, Vol 2, No 1 (2011), Pagination: 48-51Abstract
Objective
This study was conducted to know the prevailing common attitudes of clinicians in an emergency setup towards patients attempting suicide.
Method
A 34 item questionnaire which has been used in a previous similar study was used. The data was subjected to factor analysis.
Results
showed marked rejection, avoidance, hostility and indifference was found.
Conclusion
various internal and external factors, interact to produce the negative attitude in the clinicians. The need for the better training, holistic and multidisciplinary approach is the call of the recent times.
Keywords
Suicide, DSH (Deliberate Self Harm), Clinicians Attitudes, Emergency SettingReferences
- World Health organization (WHO).Suicide prevention: emerging from darkness. Geneva: WHO; 2001. p22.
- Sethi S, Uppal S. Attitude of clinicians in emergency room towards suicide. Internatinal journal of psychiatry in clinical practice 2006;10(3):182-5.
- Patel A. Attitude towards self – poisoning. Br Med J 1975;ii: 426-30.
- Goldney S. Attitude of patients who attempted suicide. Med J Australia1998;717-19.
- Ramon S, Bankcroft JMJ, Skrimswire AM. Attitudes towards self-poisoning among physician and nurses in general hospital. British journal of psychiatry 1975;127: 257-64.
- McCann RN, Eileen C, McConnachie S, Harvey I. Accident and emergency nurses attitude towards patients who self harm.Journal of accident and emergency nursing 2006;14:4-10.
- Diekstra RFW. Suicide and its prevention: the role of attitude and limitation.In Maris R, Platt S, Schanidt-ke A, Sonneck G,Editors. Suicide. Geneva(WHO) : Publishers Brill1;1989.
- Lowenthal U. Suicide – The other side. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1976; 33:838-42.
- Berman L.Recognizing and responding to suicide risk(RRSR)-Advanced training for clinicians. In proceeding of the suicide prevention conference; Jan2009; San-Diego.USA.
- Chiles JA, Strosahl KD, Ping ZY, Michael MC. Depression, hopelessness & suicidal behaviour in Chinese & American psychiatric patients. American Journal of psychiatry1989;146:339-44.
- Beautrais Al, Joyce PR, Mulder RT, Fergusson DM, Deavill BJ, Nightingale SK. Prevalence and co morbidity of mental disorders in persons making serious suicide attempts: A case control study. Am J Psychiatry 1996; 153:1009-14.
- Mindlessness in Psychology
Authors
1 Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Medical Sciences, BHU, Varanasi, U.P., IN
Source
Indian Journal of Positive Psychology, Vol 4, No 1 (2013), Pagination: 122-126Abstract
The concept of mind is understood in many different ways by many different traditions. Most agree that minds are constituted by conscious experience and intelligent thought. Common attributes of mind include perception, reason, imagination, memory, emotion, attention, free-will and a capacity for communication. The Original Mind is the intrinsic essence of mind, the true self. The modern era comes with Freud's topographical model of the mind comprising of three regions: the conscious system, the preconscious system, and the unconscious system. Mind is energy which is all over the body. Mind is not present at some point in the brain, but mind is all over the body. The goal of life is self realization which means an absolute silence that it cannot be disturbed by anything .It means the complete disappearance of the ego. And with the ego everything disappears. Instead of "watching the thinker," you can also create a gap in the mind stream simply by directing the focus of your attention into the 'Now'. Just become intensely conscious of the present moment. Mindlessness is the right word to explain pure space without any possibility of falling back.Keywords
Mindlessness, Consciousness- Autobiographical Memory Characteristics and Emotion Regulation Strategy in Depression
Authors
1 Department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, IN
2 Department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, IN
3 Catholic University of Zimbabwe, 18443 Cranbome Avenue, Harare, ZW
4 Department of Psychiatry, Sir Sundarlal Hospital, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, UP, IN
Source
Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing, Vol 6, No 12 (2015), Pagination: 1189-1193Abstract
Depression is a severe psychopathological disorder that is marked by a constellation of affective, cognitive and memory deficits. These deficits have been observed as being responsible for the onset, maintenance, and recurrence of depressive episodes among individuals diagnosed with depression. However, the nature and course of these cognitive and affective deficits in undiagnosed samples are relatively less explored. The present study examined the nature of autobiographical memory recall and emotion regulation in 38 (19 male and 19 female) depressed participants screened on the basis of their scores on Beck Depression Inventory-II. All the selected participants responded on self-report measure of Emotion Regulation Questionnaire and Autobiographical Memory Test. The results showed that both the dimensions of emotion regulation (emotion suppression and cognitive reappraisal) correlated positively and significantly with depression. However, the emotion suppression dimension emerged as best predictor of depression. Results also showed a significant and negative correlation between depression and specificity of positive autobiographical memory recall. Overall, the findings of the present study suggest that the overgeneral autobiographical memory recall, use of inappropriate emotion regulation strategy and lack of motivation to repair negative mood are associated with depression.Keywords
Depression, Autobiographical Memory, Emotion Regulation, Emotion Suppression, Cogiitive Reappraisal.- Medical Needs of Different Age Groups of Substance Dependent Subjects: A Cross-sectional Study
Authors
1 Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Medical Sciences - Banaras Hindu University (IMS BHU), Varanasi – 221005, Uttar Pradesh, IN
Source
Journal of Health Science Research, Vol 5, No 2 (2020), Pagination: 62-68Abstract
Background: There are several bio-psychological and social factors contributing to substance abuse. These factors could differ in different age groups. This study provides important information regarding different Psychosocial factors in different age groups contributing to substance abuse which would help in planning better psychosocial intervention fitting to specific age groups. Objective: This was cross-sectional study comparing socio-demographic characters among treatment seeking substance abuse patients to find out any correlates between substance abuse and sociodemographic factors across different age groups. Methods: All patients with SUD and without any comorbid physical or mental illness were included in the study. Patients were divided into three groups based on age group, each group consist of 30 participants and were applied DAST, SDS, CPC, SDS & AUDIT and applying using SPSS software. Results: In Young adult prevalence of Tobacco-93.3%, Alcohol-56.6%, Cannabis-20%, Opioid-20%, Benzodiazepine-6.6%, Polysubstance-83.3% in Middle ageprevalence of Tobacco-96%, Alcohol-76.6%, Cannabis-16.6%, Opioid-16.6%, Benzodiazepine-10%, Polysubstance-96.6% in Elderly age- prevalence of Tobacco-96%, Alcohol-23.6%, Benzodiazepine-6.6%, Polysubstance-23.3%. Discussion: Our study showed tobacco is most commonly used substance followed by alcohol followed by cannabis and other substances. Prevalence of alcohol and illicit drugs use decrease with increasing of age. Conclusion: The present study shows that the commonest substance of abuse is tobacco and this is also the gateway substance of abuse, so legal and awareness methods should be adopted to limit its abuse.
Keywords
Socio-demographic Characters, AUDIT, DAST, SDS, SUD.References
- Degenhardt L, Chiu WT, Sampsonetal N. Toward a global view of alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, and cocaine use: Findings from the WHO world mental health surveys. PLoS Medicine. 2008; 5(7):1053–67. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0050141. PMid:18597549. PMCid:PMC2443200
- Kertesz SG, Khodneva Y, Richman J, et al. Trajectories of drug use and mortality outcomes among adults followed over 18years. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2012; 27(7):808–16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-011-1975-3. PMid:22274889 PMCid:PMC3378735
- Ray R. The extent, pattern and trends of drug abuse in India. National Survey, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. Government of India and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; 2004.
- Ilgen MA, Schulenberg J, Kloska DD, Czyz E, Johnston L, Malley PO. Prevalence and characteristics of substance abuse treatment utilization by US adolescents: National data from 1987 to 2008. Addictive Behaviors. 2011; 36(12):1349– 52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2011.07.036. PMid:21885197. PMCid:PMC3269242
- Schlaerth KR, Splawn RG, Ong J, Smith SD. Change in the pattern of illegal drug use in an inner city population over 50: An observational study. Journal of Addictive Diseases. 2004; 23(2):95–107. https://doi.org/10.1300/ J069v23n02_07. PMid:15132345
- Simoni L, Yang HKW. Psychoactive drug abuse in older adults. American Journal Geriatric Pharmacotherapy. 2006; 4(4):380–94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjopharm.2006.10.002. PMid:17296542
- Nadeem A, Rubeena B, Agarwal VK, Piyush K. Substance abuse in India. Pravara Medical Review. 2009; 4:4–6.
- Cocco KM, Carey KB. Psychometric properties of the drug abuse screening test in psychiatric outpatients. Psychological Assessment. 1998 Dec; 10(4):408. https://doi.org/10.1037/1040-3590.10.4.408
- Gossop M, Darke S, Griffiths P, Hando J, Powis B, Hall W, Strang J. The Severity of Dependence Scale (SDS): Psychometric properties of the SDS in English and Australian samples of heroin, cocaine and
- amphetamine users. Addiction. 1995 May; 90(5):607–14. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1360-0443.1995.9056072.x. PMid:7795497
- Saunders JB, Aasland OG, Amundsen A, Grant M. Alcohol consumption and related problems among primary health care patients: WHO collaborative project on early detection of persons with harmful alcohol consumption-I. Addiction. 1993 Mar; 88(3):349–62. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.1993.tb00822.x.
- PMid:8461852
- Bashir N, Sheikh AA, Bilques S, Firdosi MM. Sociodemographic correlates of substance use disorder patients seeking de-addiction services in Kashmir India– A cross sectional study. British Journal of Medical Practitioners. 2015 Dec 1; 8(4):9–13
- Dhawan A, Jain R, Kumar N. Proceeding of workshop on Assessment of role of tobacco as a gateway substance and information available on evidence relating to tobacco, alcohol and other forms of substance abuse. AIIMS and WHO, New Delhi; 2004.
- Ashtankar HJ, Talapalliwar MR. Felt need and treatmentseeking barriers among substance abusers in urban slum area in central India. Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine. 2017 Jul; 39(4):436–40. https://doi.org/10.4103/02537176.211760. PMid:28852236. PMCid:PMC5559990
- Balhara YP, Mishra A, Sethi H, Ray R. A retrospective chart review of treatment seeking middle aged individuals at a tertiary care substance use disorder treatment centre in North Part of India over five successive years: Findings from drug abuse monitoring system. The Scientific World Journal. 2013; 1:316372. https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/316372. PMid:24288477. PMCid:PMC3826476
- Roy S, Miah MZ. Socio-demographic and clinical profile of substance abusers attending a Regional Psychiatric Hospital in Sylhet. Bangladesh. Journal of Addiction Research and Therapy. 2017; 8(5):342.
- Sau M, Mukherjee A, Manna N, Sanyal S. Sociodemographic and substance use correlates of repeated relapse among patients presenting for relapse treatment at an addiction treatment center in Kolkata, India. African Health Sciences. 2013; 13(3):791–9. https://doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v13i3.39
- Srivastava M, Jain S, Patel A. Substance use among outdoor treatment-seeking patients with mental illness: A casecontrol study from a tertiary care hospital of northern India. Journal of Education and Health Promotion. 2018; 7:75.
- Gupta PC, Saxena S, Pednekar MS, Maulik PK. Alcohol consumption among middle-aged and elderly men: A community study from Western India. Alcohol. 2003; 38:327– 31. https://doi.org/10.1093/alcalc/agg077. PMid:12814899
- Basu D, Aggarwal M, Das PP, Mattoo SK, Kulhara, P, Varma VK. Changing pattern of substance abuse inpatients attending a de-addiction centre in North India (1978–2008). Indian Journal of Medical Research. 2012; 135(6):830–6.
- Sarkar AP, Sen S, Mondal S, Singh OP, Chakraborty A, Swaika B. A study on socio-demographic characteristics of alcoholics attending the de-addiction center at Burdwan Medical College and Hospital in West Bengal. Indian Journal of Public Health. 2013; 57:33–5. https://doi.org/10.4103/0019-557X.111366. PMid:23649141
- Venkatesh K, Mattoo SK, Grover S. Sexual dysfunction in men seeking treatment for opioid dependence: A study from India. Journal of Sexual Medicine. 2014; 11(8):2055–64 https://doi.org/10.1111/jsm.12588. PMid:24888452
- Rather YH, Bashir W, Sheikh AA, Amin M, Zahgeer YA. Socio-demographic and clinical profile of substance abusers attending a regional drug de-addiction centre in chronic conflict area: Kashmir, India. Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences. 2013; 20(3):31–8.
- Dadwani RS, Thomas T. Prevalence of substance abuse: A communitybased study. International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health. 2017 Feb 1; 3(3):647–50. https://doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20160626
- Kapse NS, Thakre SS, Thakre SB, Kapse SN. A cross sectional comparative study of quality of life of treatments seekers at de-addiction centre in central India using WHO BREF scale. International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health. 2017 Oct 25; 4(11):4266–71. https://doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20174841
- Prajapati BB, Dedun MR, Jalfava HS, Shukla AA. A study of socio-demographic profile and pattern of drug use among substance abusers attending mind care de-addiction center in Ahmedabad. International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health. 2018 Dec 24; 6(1):286–9.
- https://doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20185259
- Gul D, Sharma N. Socio-demographic profile and pattern of substance abuse among patients presenting to a de-addiction centre in a teaching hospital of Punjab. International Journal of Medical and Dental Sciences. 2017 Jul 1; 6(2):1504–8. https://doi.org/10.19056/ijmdsjssmes/2017/v6i2/149906