First rank symptoms: concepts and diagnostic utilityS Saddichha
National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences NIMHANS, Bangalore, India
Afr J Psychiatry (Johannesbg) 13:263-6. 2010
..In addition there is controversy over the prognostic implications with evidence divided between poor and no influence on outcome...
Alzheimer's and non-alzheimer's dementia: a critical review of pharmacological and nonpharmacological strategiesSahoo Saddichha
Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
Am J Alzheimers Dis Other Demen 23:150-61. 2008
..In this article, the management of the disorder, including the currently available drugs as well as psychosocial strategies, is discussed...
- Knowledge, attitude and practices of Indian dental surgeons towards tobacco control: advances towards prevention
Sahoo Saddichha
NIMHANS, Bangalore, India
Asian Pac J Cancer Prev 11:939-42. 2010
..A self-administered questionnaire was administered to all dental surgeons prior to a sensitization program on nicotine dependence...
- Prevalence of depression, anxiety, and stress among young male adults in India: a dimensional and categorical diagnoses-based study
Saddichha Sahoo
Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India
J Nerv Ment Dis 198:901-4. 2010
..Health policies must integrate young adults' depression, stress, and anxiety as a disorder of public health significance...
- Is every chest pain a cardiac event? : an audit of patients with chest pain presenting to emergency services in India
Sahoo Saddichha
Division of Clinical Research, Emergency Management and Research Institute, Devar Yemzal, Medchal Road, Hyderabad 500014, India
Intern Emerg Med 4:235-9. 2009
..From the total sample of patients presenting with chest pain, only 5.5-8% were definitive cardiac ischemic events...
- Behavioral emergencies in India: a population based epidemiological study
Sahoo Saddichha
National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences NIMHANS, Bangalore, 560029, India
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 45:589-93. 2010
..Behavioral emergencies constitute an important but neglected part of emergencies seen worldwide in both emergency departments and by emergency services. Yet research on behavioral emergencies in India has been scarce...
- Neurological emergencies in India--lessons learnt and strategies to improve outcomes
Sahoo Saddichha
Division of Clinical Research, Emergency Management and Research Institute, Hyderabad 500014, India
Neuroepidemiology 33:280-5. 2009
..This study aimed to answer the questions of demand, type and outcome of neurological emergencies by conducting a retrospective analysis of neurological emergencies serviced by 108, the first professional emergency service in India...
- How is substance use linked to psychosis? A study of the course and patterns of substance dependence in psychosis
Sahoo Saddichha
National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences NIMHANS, Bangalore, India
Subst Abus 31:58-67. 2010
..Cannabis use is more strongly associated with development of psychosis than any other substance...
- Attempted suicides in India: a comprehensive look
Sahoo Saddichha
National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India
Arch Suicide Res 14:56-65. 2010
..Starting tele-help services or offering brief interventions during hospital stays are other programs which may be considered...
- The role of Gateway drugs and psychosocial factors in substance dependence in Eastern India
Sahoo Saddichha
WHO GOI, National Tobacco Control Program, Kolkata, India
Int J Psychiatry Med 37:257-66. 2007
..This study was designed to find the drugs of initiation and to understand the factors for initiation, maintenance, and relapse of these substances in persons dependent on them in Eastern India...
- Diabetes and schizophrenia - effect of disease or drug? Results from a randomized, double-blind, controlled prospective study in first-episode schizophrenia
S Saddichha
National Tobacco Control Program, WHO India, Bhubaneswar, India
Acta Psychiatr Scand 117:342-7. 2008
..There have been innumerable advances in the pharmacotherapy of schizophrenia, but problems have emerged hand-in-glove, such as the presence of treatment-emergent glucose intolerance and frank diabetes mellitus (DM)...
- Baclofen-induced morbiliform rashes: a case series
Sahoo Saddichha
National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences NIMHANS, Bangalore, India E mail
J Clin Pharmacol 51:1733-4. 2011
..We report a case series of 4 patients who developed morbiliform rashes after initiation of baclofen...
- Disease mongering in psychiatry: fact or fiction?
S Saddichha
Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences NIMHANS, Bangalore, India
JNMA J Nepal Med Assoc 50:320-7. 2010
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- Obesity, diabetes and hypertension associated with antipsychotic use in remitted schizophrenia
Sahoo Saddichha
Senior Resident in Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India
Int J Risk Saf Med 23:181-5. 2011
..To ascertain the prevalence of diabetes, obesity and hypertension associated with antipsychotic use in remitted patients with schizophrenia...
- Behavioral emergencies in India: would psychiatric emergency services help?
Sahoo Saddichha
National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India
Prehosp Disaster Med 26:65-70. 2011
..Yet, research on behavioral emergencies in India has been scarce. This article discusses the burden, types, and epidemiology of behavioral emergencies in India...
- Effect of olanzapine, risperidone, and haloperidol treatment on weight and body mass index in first-episode schizophrenia patients in India: a randomized, double-blind, controlled, prospective study
Sahoo Saddichha
Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi, India
J Clin Psychiatry 68:1793-8. 2007
..This study examined the effects of olanzapine, risperidone, and haloperidol on weight, body mass index (BMI), and development of obesity in a drug-naive population compared with a matched healthy control group...
- Predictors of antipsychotic-induced weight gain in first-episode psychosis: conclusions from a randomized, double-blind, controlled prospective study of olanzapine, risperidone, and haloperidol
Sahoo Saddichha
Department of Psychiatry, Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
J Clin Psychopharmacol 28:27-31. 2008
..Antipsychotic-induced weight gain is one of the most distressing adverse effects being observed in recent times. Most studies have been limited by several confounders...
- Metabolic syndrome in first episode schizophrenia - a randomized double-blind controlled, short-term prospective study
Sahoo Saddichha
National Tobacco Control Program, Swasthya Bhavan, Sector V, Kolkata, India
Schizophr Res 101:266-72. 2008
..This adverse effect has been described with several antipsychotics to range between 20%-60%, at least double the prevalence in the general population...
- Prevalence of tobacco use among young adult males in India: a community-based epidemiological study
Sahoo Saddichha
National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 36:73-7. 2010
..This study aimed to explore the prevalence of tobacco use among young adult males in Ranchi, as confirmed by serum cotinine levels...
- Prevention of alcohol dependence: strategies for selective, indicated, and universal prevention
Narayana Manjunatha
National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences NIMHANS, Bangalore, India
Subst Abus 32:135-43. 2011
..Selective prevention by using naltrexone for those genetically inclined and universal prevention by use of "clinical" labeling on alcoholic beverages can also be attempted...
- Psychiatric comorbidity and gender differences among suicide attempters in Bangalore, India
Gopalkrishnan Vishnuvardhan
Department of Psychiatry, Rajarajeshwari Medical College and Hospital, Bangalore, India
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 34:410-4. 2012
..This study attempted to evaluate the psychiatric comorbidity and gender differences among suicide attempters presenting to a general hospital in the city of Bangalore, India...
- Delusion of pregnancy associated with antipsychotic induced metabolic syndrome
Narayana Manjunatha
National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India
World J Biol Psychiatry 10:669-70. 2009
..We report the first case of antipsychotic-induced metabolic syndrome which was associated with development of delusions of pregnancy in a post-menopausal woman...
- Clozapine-induced angioneurotic edema
Biswaranjan Mishra
Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi 834 006, India
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 29:78-80. 2007
..We report two cases wherein the patients developed classical angioneurotic edema on clozapine therapy and improved rapidly when clozapine was stopped...
Emergency medical epidemiology in Assam, IndiaSahoo Saddichha
Division of Clinical Research, Emergency Management and Research Institute, Hyderabad, India
J Emerg Trauma Shock 2:170-4. 2009
..Conclusion: Potential emergency services need to target young pregnant females. Law and order needs to be also tightened in order to curb accidents and assaults among young males...
- Attitudes of ward attendants towards mental illness: comparisons and predictors
Pandey Vibha
Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi, India
Int J Soc Psychiatry 54:469-78. 2008
..This study aimed to explore attitudes of psychiatric ward attendants since they work closely with psychiatric patients in the hospital ward, and which may differ given their cultural and social background...
- Idiopathic recurrent catatonia needs maintenance lorazepam: case report and review
Narayana Manjunatha
Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi, India
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 41:625-7. 2007
..We aim to report a patient who had recurrent catatonia that responded to and required lorazepam for maintenance...
- Quality of life and marital adjustment in remitted psychiatric illness: an exploratory study in a rural setting
Pandey Vibha
Emergency Management and Research Institute, Hyderabad, India Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia UBC, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi, India
J Nerv Ment Dis 201:334-8. 2013
..05). Provision of mental health care should take into consideration patients' possible perception of marital maladjustment and factor these into treatment strategies...
- Why do we Need to Control Alcohol Use Through Legislative Measures? A South East Asia Perspective?
Sahoo Saddichha
Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences NIMHANS, Bangalore, India
Indian J Community Med 35:147-52. 2010
..Even though prevalence of alcohol use in the world is very high, it has not been brought under legal control in several countries, contrary to other controlled substances like opium, cocaine, cannabis, and so on...
- The burden of behavioral emergencies: need for specialist emergency services
Pandey Vibha
Division of Clinical Research, Emergency Management and Research Institute, Devar Yemzal, Medchal Road, Hyderabad 500014, India
Intern Emerg Med 5:513-9. 2010
..In addition, training professionals for psychiatric emergency services should form a part and parcel of emergency management services...
- Chronology of alcohol dependence: implications in prevention
Narayana Manjunatha
Department of Psychiatry, NIMHANS, Bangalore, India
Indian J Community Med 33:233-7. 2008
..Study of the chronology of criteria of dependence in alcohol dependence syndrome (ADS) can enable us design strategies for the prevention for ADS, which aims at reducing the occurrence of ADS...
- Medical emergencies in goa
Sahoo Saddichha
Division of Clinical Research, Emergency Management and Research Institute, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Indian J Community Med 35:57-62. 2010
..Similar is the case with drownings and other medical emergencies. We therefore aimed to conduct a cross-sectional survey of medical emergencies and identify various types of emergencies presenting to emergency departments...
- Atypicality in presentation of neuroleptic malignant syndrome caused by olanzapine
Biswaranjan Mishra
Dept of Psychiatry, Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi, India
Indian J Med Sci 61:570-3. 2007
..However, NMS cases have been reported with risperidone, clozapine, olanzapine and quetiapine. The presentations of NMS have often varied and we report another atypicality in presentation of NMS due to olanzapine use...
- Risperidone-induced recurrent giant urticaria
Biswaranjan Mishra
Br J Clin Pharmacol 64:558-9. 2007
- Incidence of new onset metabolic syndrome with atypical antipsychotics in first episode schizophrenia: a six-week prospective study in Indian female patients
Sahoo Saddichha
Schizophr Res 95:247. 2007
- Diagnostic confusion - EOS or frontal dementia
Sahoo Saddichha
Acta Psychiatr Scand 116:77-8, author reply 78. 2007
