Margaret Isioma Ojeahere, Renato de Filippis, Ramdas Ransing, Rūta Karaliūnienė et al.
BACKGROUND: With the uncertainties of COVID-19, people infected with coronavirus present with diverse psychiatric presentations. Some institutions have had to manage their patients with existing protocols, others have had to create them. In this article we aimed to report the challenges and good pra...
Zahra Bagheri, Parisa Chamanpara, Peyman Jafari, Yatan Pal Singh Balhara et al.
BACKGROUND: The Quality of Life Enjoyment and Satisfaction Questionnaire-Short Form (Q-LES-Q-SF) is the most frequently used generic quality of life (QOL) measure in many countries and cultures worldwide. However, no single study has been carried out to investigate whether this questionnaire perform...
Sujita Kumar Kar, S. M. Yasir Arafat, Ramdas Ransing, Vikas Menon et al.
Debanga Raj Neog, Rhythm Grover, Ramdas Ransing, Rodrigo Ramalho
Aim of this letter is to review Chatbots that answer questions of vaccine-hesitant people, their utility, and their limitations in addressing psycho-social determinants of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. The authors propose a conceptual framework that could guide the development of artificial intelligen...
Ramdas Ransing, Gajanan Sh. Sakekar, Omityah Grigo, Praveen Khairkar
INTRODUCTION: Cognitive deficit is the enduring, persistent, and core feature of schizophrenia associated with increased risk of psychosocial disability. The cognitive deficit is highly prevalent, and variable according to the type of schizophrenia and course of illness. It is often overlooked by cl...
Elona Dashi, Bita Vahdani, Ashish Hanmantrao Chepure, Nafisatu Hayatudeen et al.
BACKGROUND: The coronavirus infection of 2019 (COVID-19) produced an incontestable impact on the mental health of people around the world. This impact is conditioned by a complex interrelation of social, cultural, economic and COVID-19-associated factors. However, insufficient data on comparison of ...
Ramdas Ransing, Ashwini Kamble, Rajashree Kulkarni, Praveen Khairkar et al.
INTRODUCTION: Although common hematological abnormalities (CHA) such as anemia, macrocytosis, and platelet dysfunction are often present in patients with schizophrenia, empirical data are limited. Thus far, such deviations have been mentioned either in reports or in a series of clinical cases. AIM: ...
P Vidyasagar, Ashwini Kamble, Praveen Khairkar, Bogum Shravya et al.
INTRODUCTION: There is no study in literature for analyzing acanthosis nigricans (AN) in psychotropic induced obesity or hypercholesterolemia. AIM: To assess the prevalence and explore the predictors and morphological patterns in AN in patients on antipsychotics induced hypercholesterolemia versus t...
Michele Cherro, Chonnakarn Jatchavala, DJibril I.M. Handuleh, Ramdas Ransing et al.
This letter to the editor continues the discussion about the similarities and differences between secondary psychosis and schizophrenia, which was initiated by the authors of the article Substance-induced psychosis and schizophrenia: the interaction point (Fedotov I.A., Quattrone D., Shustov D.I. Su...