Background: Psychotic disorders, like schizophrenia, are a global public health concern
requiring efficient management and accessible, affordable treatment options to minimize …

Abstract The Indian Journal of Psychiatry published three articles in its first issue way back in
1958. Since then, it has steadily published more than 200 papers on one or the other aspect …

Background: The burden of illness resulting from psychiatric and behavioral disorders is
enormous; although, it remains grossly under represented by conventional public health …

Introduction: Pharmacotherapy plays an important role in the management of schizophrenic
patients. The emergence of new atypical antipsychotics has changed the current drug …

Background: Schizophrenia is a chronic and debilitating psychiatric illness affecting around
0.3-0.7% of people at some point in their life. The rate of schizophrenia and related …

Background: The objective of thisstudy was to study the prescribing pattern of antipsychotic
medications in patients with schizophrenia in a tertiary care hospital. Methods: An …

The increasing number of women joining psychiatry is a relatively new phenomenon in the
field of medicine. Keeping with the trends world over, the number of women psychiatrists in …

Background: A mental disorder or psychiatry disorder is a behavioural or mental pattern that
causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning. Schizophrenia is one of …

Background: Due to increasing burden of psychiatric illnesses, it is essential to study the
psychotropic drug utilization pattern in actual clinical practice. The objective of the study was …

Background: Schizophrenia is a chronic debilitating major psychiatric illness which is
characterized by a decreased ability to understand reality, strange speech and abnormal …