A. K. Sharma

TL;DR: This study attempted to evaluate the impact of a structured psychoeducational intervention for schizophrenia, compared with standard out‐patient treatment, on various patient‐ and caregiver‐related parameters.

TL;DR: SNPs Met235Thr in angiotensinogen, T>C (-344) in aldosterone synthase, and G>A (-1903) in chymase genes are significantly associated with diabetic chronic renal insufficiency in Indian patients and warrant replication in larger sample sets.

TL;DR: It was observed that the majority of schizophrenia patients who had symptoms coloured by cultural influences such as delusional explanation in terms of paranormal phenomena had undergone magico-religious treatment and the prevalence of culturally influenced delusions as defined by the PSE-9 was very low.

TL;DR: There was an age related increase in the prevalence of hypertension in both males and females and on subclassification of hypertensives it was seen that in males 12% had borderline isolated systolic hypertension, 2% had definite isolated syStolic hypertension), 70% had isolated diastolic hypertension and 16%Had definite hypertension.

TL;DR: Critical changes in the behaviour patterns of lion-tailed macaques inhabiting a continuously changing and deteriorating rain forest fragment in the Western Ghats, India are reported.