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• Rabies Presenting as Psychiatric Syndromes: A Clinical Study with Review of Literature

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Authors

Utpal Goswami , S. K. Shankar , S. M. Channabasavanna

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NIMHANS Journal, Vol 1, No 2 (1983), Pagination: 99-103

Abstract

Five cases of rabies mimicking different psychiatric syndromes have been presented along with a review of relevant literature. The importance of awareness of such unusual presentation has been stressed, particularly in the highly prevalent areas in tropics. The clinicopathological data of two cases has been discussed and common sources of diagnostic confusion highlighted.

Keywords

Rabies, Functional Psychiatric Illness, Antemortem Diagnosis, Prevention

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• Lithium Dosage Adjustment Based on Body Weight of Manics

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S. M. Channabasavanna , M. N. Subhash , B. S. Sridhara Rama Rao

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NIMHANS Journal, Vol 2, No 1 (1984), Pagination: 35-36

Abstract

In order to facilitate use of lithium salts in the management of manics who could not come for frequent monitoring of serum lithium levels, a method was designed to adjust the dosage so as to give safe but therapeutically effective levels based on body weight.

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• Utility of Measuring Red Blood Cell Efflux Rates of Lithium in the Therapeutic Management of Manics

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Authors

M. N. Subhash , S. M. Channabasavanna , B. S. Sridhara Rama Rao

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NIMHANS Journal, Vol 2, No 2 (1984), Pagination: 127-128

Abstract

The rate of efflux of lithium from red blood cells was studied to assess its utility in predicting the response to lithium therapy in manics. It was noted that the efflux rates were lower in manics who responded to therapy with lithium. It was also noted that there were significant alterations in efflux rates of some manics who developed toxic side effects.

Keywords

Lithium, RBC, Efflux Rates, Manics, Half-life

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• The Description of the Malignant Neuroleptic Syndrome

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Authors

K. S. Mohan , B. N. Gangadhar , N. Pradhan , S. M. Channabasavanna

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NIMHANS Journal, Vol 3, No 2 (1985), Pagination: 109-113

Abstract

The Malignant Neuroleptic Syndrome (MNS) a rare, under diagnosed, but amenable to restitutive measures if recognised early, is here described with a description of six cases which recovered (over a period of three years) once they were recognised early and treated immediately. The cases emphasised the need for early recognition even before the full blown out picture is seen and for immediate treatment once recognized which can avert mortality.

Keywords

Malignant Neuroleptic Syndrome Rigidity Holoperidol Hyperpyrexia Stupor

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• Pentazocine Abuse - Medical and Psychiatric Complications

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Authors

S. M. Channabasavanna , Albert Michael , T. Murali

Source

NIMHANS Journal, Vol 3, No 2 (1985), Pagination: 129-133

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Twenty three cases of pentazocine abuse are studied. A steady increase in the number of abusers is found. In contrast to their western counterparts, all of them used only injectable form, only 13% preferred combining it with an antihistaminic, only 26% were polydrug abusers, depression, suicidal attempts and decrease in libido are more common in them, only one developed hallucinations and pentazocine did not precipitate withdrawal symptoms in narcotic abusers. A racial difference in the effect of the drug is suggested. A more discriminate use of pentazocine is advocated.

Keywords

Pentazocine, Abuse, Complications

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• Impedence Measurements during Electroconvulsive Therapy

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B. N. Gangadhar , G. Lakshmanna , D. K. Subba Krishna , S. M. Channabasavanna

Source

NIMHANS Journal, Vol 3, No 2 (1985), Pagination: 135-139

Abstract

Impedence measurements were conducted in 49 male patients during electroconvulsive therapy. Wide fluctuations in impedence between and within patients across occasions were recorded. Age seemed to positively influence the impedence, whereas the occasion at which ECT was given and the voltage used, negatively influenced the impedence. Measurement of electrical energy dose using joules was found to have large variations and thus may not accurately reflect the energy delivered to the brain tissue.

Keywords

Electroconvulsive Therapy, Impedence

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• Extension of Mental Health Services by Satellite Clinics as a Model

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Authors

G. N. Narayana Reddy , S. M. Channabasavanna , M. Gourie-devi , B. S. Das , G. G. Prabhu , I. A. Shariff , V. G. Kaliaperumal , K. Reddamma

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NIMHANS Journal, Vol 4, No 2 (1986), Pagination: 71-75

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With the object of providing mental health services in rural areas by involving the community in organising the services, four taluk headquarters were selected at a distance ranging from 50 to 115 km from NIMHANS. Satellite clinics, at Kanakapura (50 km), Maddur (85 km), Madhugiri (115 km) and Gauribidanur (85 km) were started in 1981. The community involvement helped in creating better awareness about mental illness. Epileptic patients predominated in all the four places. Under the existing circumstances and poor resources available, the professionals can effectively provide services to the neglected population of the rural areas by starting extension services as one of the innovative approaches.

Keywords

Satellite Clinics, Community Involvement

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• Implementation of National Mental Health Programme for India

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G. N. Narayana Reddy , S. M. Channabasavanna , R. Srinivasa Murthy

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NIMHANS Journal, Vol 4, No 2 (1986), Pagination: 77-84

Abstract

The National Mental Health Programme (NMHP) for India was the result of efforts to develop non-institutional models of mental health care. The NMHP envisages integration of mental health care with general health care and welfare activities. Since 1982, a number of steps to involve the professionals, health planners and strengthen the manpower needed have been undertaken. A result of all these efforts is its implementation in about 10 States / Union territories and financial support for the programme in the Seventh Five Year Plan.

Keywords

Primary Health Care, Community Mental Health, NMHP

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• A Study of Mode of Inheritance in one hundred Subjects with Manic Depressive Psychosis

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Authors

P. Lakshmi Reddy , H. S. Narayanan , S. M. Channabasavanna , K. S. Mohan , Sanjeev Sarmukaddam , D. M. Joseph , B. S. Sridhara Rama Rao

Source

NIMHANS Journal, Vol 6, No 1 (1988), Pagination: 7-11

Abstract

The family history data obtained from patients with manic depressive psychosis was evaluated to find out the mode of inheritance. The results suggested an autosomal dominant mode of inheritance with incomplete penetrance. The scope of molecular genetics in understanding the nature of inheritance of manic depressive psychosis is indicated.

Keywords

Manic Depressive Psychosis, Autosomal Dominance, Incomplete Penetrance, Molecular Genetics

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• Salivary Lithium Determination: Clinical Relevance and Comparison of Methods of Estimation by Flame Photometry and Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry

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Authors

Mohan K. Sapru , M. N. Subhash , B. M. Nagaraj , S. M. Channabasavanna , B. S. Sridhara Rama Rao

Source

NIMHANS Journal, Vol 6, No 1 (1988), Pagination: 29-33

Abstract

Lithium levels were determined in serum and saliva samples from 26 patients on lithium therapy using flamephotometric and atomic absorption spectrophotometric methods. No significant differences were observed ion comparing the results obtained by these two methods of estimation. Further, the correlation between lithium levels in serum and mixed saliva showed a mean ratio of 1 : 2.25, with an overall correlation coefficient ( r ) of 0.63 ( p <0.001). The relationship using linear regression analysis was described by the equation, y=1.36x + 0.63. Although statistically significant correlation was obtained between serum and mixed saliva lithium concentrations, there was an unacceptably high individual variation of paired results. Serially paired results in individual patients also showed occasional wide variations. The findings from the present study do not support the suggestion that saliva can be safely used as a substitute for serum to monitor lithium therapy.

Keywords

Salivary Lithium, Serum Lithium, Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry

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• Mental Health Delivery System by Mental Hospitals in India

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M. Venkataswamy Reddy , S. M. Channabasavanna , V. G. Kaliaperumal

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NIMHANS Journal, Vol 6, No 2 (1988), Pagination: 97-106

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The nature and scope of 36 mental hospitals in India were studied based on the data pertaining to 1983. The average bed strength was 526 beds while the average bed occupancy was 472 patients. On an average three patients were treated per bed per year. Half of the beds were occupied by chronic patients. Psychotics formed 91% of all discharged patients. The death rate among in-patients seemed to be higher than that of the general population. The follow-up attendance was about five times more than the new patients. Salary to the staff accounted for half of the total expenditure. The treatment outcome was better for higher unit cost, higher rate of turnover, more out-patient attendance and less bed occupancy. The trend in mental health delivery was encouraging during 1977 - 1983. Eight clusters of hospitals were identified based on certain key indicators.

Keywords

Mental Hospital, Outcome, Cluster

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• Does ECT Stimulus Waveform Influence Rate of Recovery in Endogenous Depression?

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Authors

Chittaranjan Andrade , B. N. Gangadhar , S. M. Channabasavanna , N. Pradhan

Source

NIMHANS Journal, Vol 6, No 2 (1988), Pagination: 121-126

Abstract

In a double-blind, prospective study, we compared the rate of recovery of endogenous depression to sinusoidal wave (SW) and brief-pulse (BP) electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in an attempt to identify treatment variables that hasten recovery - an important clinical consideration. Twenty nine endogenous depressives, randomized into SW and BP ECT groups, were treated with alternate-day, bilateral, modified SW or BP ECT. At the conclusion of the study, we found that while the percentage of ECT responders was significantly greater with SW than with BP ECT, the rate of recovery was similar in the 2 groups; the findings are briefly discussed.

Keywords

Electroconvulsive Therapy, Sinusoidal Wave ECT, Brief-pulse ECT, Endogeneous Depression, Recovery Rate

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• Clinical Characteristics of Endogeneous Depressives who Respond to ECT

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Chittaranjan Andrade , B. N. Gangadhar , S. M. Channabasavanna , N. Pradhan

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NIMHANS Journal, Vol 7, No 2 (1989), Pagination: 119-122

Abstract

While clinical predictors of outcome with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) have been described for unselected depressives, little information is available on their applicability to endogeneous ("good prognosis") depression - a major indication for ECT today. To appraise the relevance of clinical variables in such a context, in a double-blind, prospective trial 32 endogeneous depressives (RDC) were treated with ECT. Of the 29 patients completing the study, 22 (75.9%) were deemed to have responded to treatment. The clinical variables of age, sex, polarity, affective episode number and duration, initial severity of depression, and qualitative as well as quantitative profiles on certain diagnostic and prognostic indices were compared between ECT responders and non-responders. Only past history of mania and responder status on the Newcastle Prognostic Index were significantly associated with good outcome, while there was a trend for lesser initial severity of depression to be so associated. The application of these findings to treatment options in endogeneous depression is discussed.

Keywords

Electroconvulsive Therapy, Endogeneous Depression, Prediction of Response, Clinical Factors

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• From the Editor-in-Chief's Desk

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S. M. Channabasavanna

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NIMHANS Journal, Vol 8, No 1 (1990), Pagination: iii-iv

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• Ethnography of Psychiatric Illness - A Pilot Study

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S. M. Channabasavanna , R. Raguram , Mitchell G. Weiss , R. Parvathavardhini , M. Thriveni

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NIMHANS Journal, Vol 11, No 1 (1993), Pagination: 1-10

Abstract

The Explanatory Model Interview Catalogue (EMIC) was adapted, standardized, and translated into Kannada for a cultural study of depression. The Structured Clnical Interview for DSM-III - R (SCID) and Combined Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression and Anxiety (HDARS ) were also translated and used. The interrater reliability of all three was good. The clinical ethnographic database generated by the EMIC integrates quantitative and qualitative data with respect to patterns of distress, perceived causes, help seeking and general illness beliefs. The majority of patients studied emphasized somatic complaints and were concerned about personal and family stigma. "Nerves" were most frequently cited as most important perceived cause. Few patients were satisfied with the allopathic help most had received previously. Questions about madness, considered distinctly different from their own problems, elicited a pattern of responses resembling their own problems. Complementary use of the EMIC and instruments like SCID and HDARS provides a method for cross-cultural research that integrates personal experience and professional concepts of illness.

Keywords

EMIC, Cross-cultural Psychiatry, Reliability, Depression, Somatization, SCID

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• Structural Equations Models in Child Behaviour

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V. G. Kaliaperumal , A. R. Khalilian , S. M. Channabasavanna

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NIMHANS Journal, Vol 12, No 2 (1994), Pagination: 125-134

Abstract

Structural Equations Model was presented as a method of choice to analyse data pertaining to cause and effect relations. The method was employed to find whether the conduct disorder and attention deficit constitute two different entities. The result of analysis of data for 531 children and adolescents demonstrated that though conduct disorder and attention deficit correlated highly (r=0.919), they constituted two distinct entities.

Keywords

Structural Models, Conduct Disorder, Attention Deficit

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• Detection of Anxiety and Depression in Cancer Patients

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Santosh K. Chaturvedi , Prabha S. Chandra , S. M. Channabasavanna , M. S. Beena , Dhanashekaran Pandian

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NIMHANS Journal, Vol 12, No 2 (1994), Pagination: 141-144

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In this study, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale has been adapted to suit Indian cancer patients to obtain the optimal scores which would suggest the likelihood of psychiatric disorder. Consecutive cancer patients were included and a standard clinical psychiatric interview was conducted to make a psychiatric diagnosis in accordance with the DSM-III R. All the patients were administered the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). Specificity and Sensitivity were computed for different cut-off scores for the HADS subscales as well as the total HADS scores. The cut-off scores of 7 on the anxiety subscale gave the sensitivity and specificity values of 87% and 79% respectively, whereas a cut-off score of 8 on depression subscale gave the sensitivity and specificity values of 75% and 76% respectively and these seem to be optimal. The specificity and sensitivity values of the total scores at cut-off scores of 16 and 17 gave good values of sensitivity and specificity, as 85% and 88%, and 82% and 91% respectively. At present, like in other countries, HADS seems to be the best screening instrument for Indian cancer patients, for simple and rapid evaluation of psychological morbidity and interventions with cancer patients.

Keywords

Screening, Anxiety, Depression, Cancer Patients

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• From the Vice-Chancellor's Desk

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S. M. Channabasavanna

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NIMHANS Journal, Vol 14, No 1 (1996), Pagination: 0

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• The Patient as a Client: Issues Pertaining to Consent

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S. M. Channabasavanna

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NIMHANS Journal, Vol 14, No 2 (1996), Pagination: 87-88

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• Mental Health Delivery System by Government Mental Hospitals in India: Trends during 1977-1993

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M. Venkataswamy Reddy , V. G. Kaliaperumal , S. M. Channabasavanna

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NIMHANS Journal, Vol 14, No 3 (1996), Pagination: 219-222

Abstract

The trend in the utilisation of government mental hospitals in India was examined, using data collected for the calendar years 1977, 1983 and 1993. A downward trend in the in-patient load, and an increase in the rate of turnover were noted. Parallel upward trends in the number of out-patients and their follow-up rates were also observed. The findings were discussed in light of the starting of strengthening the general hospital psychiatry and community psychiatry care.

Keywords

Mental Health Delivery System, Summary Trends, National Indicators

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• Suicide, Euthanasia and the Law

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S. M. Channabasavanna

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NIMHANS Journal, Vol 14, No 3 (1996), Pagination: 165-166

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• Cluster Formation in Child Psychiatry - Part I: Some Methodological Evaluation

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M. Venkataswamy Reddy , V. G. Kaliaperumal , S. M. Channabasavanna

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NIMHANS Journal, Vol 15, No 1 (1997), Pagination: 7-17

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Using real data on 435 child psychiatric patients each measured on 78 binary variables, seven hierarchical agglomerative and two k-means algorithms were compared on their agreement, number of discriminating variables and level of recovery of marker sample. The capacity to produce clear cut clusters and confirmed number of clusters were studied in hierarchical methods with four measures of proximity. While single linkage and centroid methods have not yielded clear cut clusters with any of the four measures of proximity, complete linkage and average linkage (within) yielded clear cut clusters. Ward method failed to produce classifications with confirmed number of clusters. Hierarchical methods with distance measures were more accurate than with similarity measures. The k-means algorithms produced the excellent recovery of clusters structures when used with the centroids of clusters generated by the best hierarchical methods.

Keywords

Child Psychiatry, Cluster Analysis, Hierarchical Methods, K-means Algorithms

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• Cluster formation in Child Psychiatry - Part II: Some Empirical Classification

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M. Venkataswamy Reddy , V. G. Kaliaperumal , S. M. Channabasavanna

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NIMHANS Journal, Vol 15, No 1 (1997), Pagination: 18-30

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Six clusters of patients obtained by employing suitable clustering technique on 435 child guidance clinic cases were presented. They were named as childhood psychosis, hysterical syndrome, anxiety disorders, conduct disorders, hyperactivity syndrome and scholastic backwardness. These clusters were characterized by the frequency of occurrence of all the variables included in the study. The clusters have good communicative values for both research and clinical work, reflect actual clinical experience and further may suggest an ideal diagnostic classification system.

Keywords

Empirical classification, Childhood psychosis, Conduct disorder, Hyperactivity syndrome, Scholastic backwardness

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• Calcium Channel Blockers in Mental Health and Neuro Sciences

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S. M. Channabasavanna

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NIMHANS Journal, Vol 15, No 1 (1997), Pagination: 3-5

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• Sickness And Its Repercussions On The Patient

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S. M. Channabasavanna ¹, I. A. Shariff ²

Affiliations
1 Govt. Mental Hospital Bangalore, IN
2 All-India Institute of Mental Health, Bangalore, IN

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The Indian Practitioner, Vol 27, No 1 (1974), Pagination: 55-59

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Abstract not Given.

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No Keywords given

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• Clinical Trial Of Trimipramine (Surmontil)

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S. M. Channabasavanna ¹, B. Aresh ²

Affiliations
1 Affiliation not given, IN
2 Govt.Mental Hospital, Bangalore, IN

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The Indian Practitioner, Vol 27, No 1 (1974), Pagination: 67-71

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Abstract not Given.

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No Keywords given

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• Comparison of Haloperidol and Trifluperidol in Acute and Chronic Schizophrenia: A Double Blind Trial

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S. M. Channabasavanna ¹, V. G. Kaliaperumal ¹, Saranya Devnathan ¹

Affiliations
1 National Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences, Bangalore, IN

Source

The Indian Practitioner, Vol 32, No 8 (1979), Pagination: 447-458

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