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- The effects on man of long-term cannabis use” A feasibility study.
- Encouraging comparability in drug use surveys in young people.
- Strategies for extending mental health care.
- Standardized assessment of depressive disorders.
- Psychosomatic sequelae of female sterilization.
- Research and reporting project on epidemiology of drug dependence: development of methods of surveys on non-student youth.
- Determinants of outcome of severe mental disorders.
- Monitoring of mental health legislation in developing countries.
- Study on standardized assessment of patients with depressive disorders: follow-up study.
- Cross-cultural study of acute psychosis.
- Mental health in primary health care.
- Field trial of ICD-10, Fifth Chapter.
- Long-term course and outcome of schizophrenia.
- Establishment of Tobacco Cessation clinics in India.
- Epidemiological Survey of Mental Disorders – A Longitudinal Study: a Multi-centered National Collaborative Study.
- WHO-SEARO Funded Research Project: A controlled trial of family intervention in severe mental disorder
- Adaptation of mental health gap (mhGAP) guidelines for India.
- Mental Health in Primary Health Care. (WHO-SEARO).
- ROI DA 13550 “Marihuana Abuse: Cognition, Neuro-imaging and Endocrines” ( NIH)
- HIV-1C clade progression and neuro-AIDS (NIH)
- Cross-cultural reliability and validity of intermediate measures (CIM-II) of the measurement of treatment research to improve cognition in schizophrenia (MATRICS) (NIH)
- Enhancing HIV Medication Adherence in India (NIH).
- Prevalence of common mental disorders in subjects with diabetes mellitus (WPA).
- Mental health in failing university students.
- A personality study of loop and vasectomy cases.
- Psychiatric disturbances associated with cardiac surgery.
- Effects of protein calorie malnutrition on mental development.
- Psychiatric and menstrual disturbances following tubectomy.
- A long-term follow-up psychosexual symptoms following vasectomy.
- Levels of individual steroids in schizophrenic patients.
- A prospective study of neo-natal neurological examination including electro-encephalograph in high-risk
babies and its correlation with subsequent neurological and mental development. - RBC transport of dehydroepiandroasterone (DHEA) in schizophrenic males.
- Standardization of Hindi adaptation of WAIS-R verbal scale.
- Use of psychometric assessment in brain dysfunction cases.
- Collaborative study on illness behaviour in patients presenting with pain and its relationship with psychological and clinical variables.
- Compilation and standardized analysis of diagnostic and socio-demographic data of psychiatric patients at national level.
- ICMR training Programme on extension of mental health services in the Community.
- Development of a home-care programme for mentally retarded children.
- Platelet monoamine oxidase activity in schizophrenic patients.
- Severe mental disorder: A prospective 5-year follow-up study.
- Efficacy of yogic techniques in the treatment of psychogenic headache.
- Effect of yoga on the health of nurses.
- Depression in schizophrenia: A study of phenomenology and predictive variables.
- Coronary prone behaviour and coronary heart disease.
- Psychosocial determinants of developmental psychopathology of school children.
- A prospective study of psychiatric disorders in pregnancy and the first postnatal year.
- Psychological aspects of infertility.
- Role of yoga in the treatment of essential hypertension.
- Differences in personality profile between yoga practitioners and controls.
- Effect of yoga on cardio-vascular reactivity in anxiety neurotics.
- Study of psychopathology in school children.
- Community based follow-up and treatment of children identified to have psychiatric disorders.
- Prevalence, characterization, and health-related risk behaviour in injecting drug users attending a de-addiction centre in northern India.
- Acceptability of HIV Risk Reducing Strategies Among Indian Couples
- A study of factors contributing to mental health and mental illness among schedule caste/schedule tribes in Chandigarh (MOHF&W).
- Study of health habits in school going children of scheduled caste families (MOHF&W).
- Molecular & Genetic Study of Schizophrenia (DST).
- Thyroid dysfunction in patients on lithium prophylaxis (DST).
- Development and implementation of a model Tele-psychiatry application for delivering mental healthcare in remote areas (using a medical knowledge based decision support system) (DST)
- Molecular genetic studies of schizophrenia and bipolar disease (DBT)
- A study of social psychological and behavioural aspects of sibling of handicapped children (ICSSR)
- Multicentric study on Prevalence and Phenomenology of Functional Somatic symptoms in Depression
- Multicentric study on Assessment of Health Care Needs of Patients with Severe Mental Illnesses
- Multicentric study on Psychotropic Prescription patterns in India
- Translation and validation of BPHQ derived from PRIME-MD: A multi-centric research project(Pfizer)
- A study of the effect of LY2216684, a Selective Nor-epinephrine Reuptake Inhibitor (NERI), in the treatment of major depression.
- A phase III randomised placebo control A phase III randomized, placebo-controlled, double-dummy study evaluating the safety and efficacy of oral ziprasidone vs haloperiodol and placebo in in-patients with acute manic episode (Pfizer)
- Drug Trial-EMD 16, 923- an anxiolytic drug ( E. Merck)
- A double blind, multi-centric, parallel group comparison of the efficacy and safety of ziprasidone and chlorpromazine in patients with schizophrenia who are refractory to standard therapy. (Pfizer).
- Efficacy and safety of olanzapine versus haloperidol in schizophrenic patients in India. (Eli Lilly).
- A prospective randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of the effectiveness and safety of Risperdal Consta augmentation in adult patients with frequently-relapsing bipolar disorder ( Janssen Medical Affairs)
- Study of therapeutic efficacy of loading dose of impiramine in major depression.
- Study of factors associated with relapse in treated alcoholics.
- Development of a scale to assess attitudes towards drinking and alcoholism.
- Sexual behaviour, knowledge and attitude in STD patients: A comparative study from north India.
- Study of social burden and its correlates in patients on alcohol and drug dependence.
- Interdependence of SIS variables with personality traits in psychiatric cases.
- Knowledge and attitude towards condom use.
- Abuse of codeine containing cough syrups: a report from Chandigarh.
- Personality assessment of patients with and without significant memory deficit.
- Body image disturbances in psychiatric cases.
- Hindi translation of temperament and character inventory (TCI).
- HIV-Risk behaviour, knowledge and attitude in opioids-users alcohol dependent patients.
- Attitude towards drug taking behaviour.
- Hindi adaptation of the scale of knowledge and attitude towards condom use (SKAC).
- Assessment of needs of patients of schizophrenia.
- Psychiatric morbidity in vitiligo.
- Adaptation of the shortened scale of Malin’s Intelligence Scale for Indian Children.
- Development of an indigenous scale for assessment of personality in Hindi.
- A clinical and follow-up study of pervasive development disorders (PDD) of childhood.
- Factor structure and norms of Hindi adaptation of Temperament and Character inventory (TCI).
- Assessment of coping strategies and its correlates in relatives of persons with schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorders.
- Detection of memory impairments during ECT- usefulness of the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE).
- Neuropsychological profile in obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- Assessment of the psychological variables in post-traumatic joint stiffness.
- Life events, social support and social dysfunction in psychiatric patients.
- Social support and lithium prophylaxis.
- Psychological aspects of burns.
- Burden of care of manic-depressive psychosis and lithium prophylaxis.
- Burden of care of haematological malignancies.
- Burden of care of children with haematological malignancies.
- Outcome of schizophrenia: role of social variables.
- A study of loading doses of fluoxetine in patients with major depression.
- Study of long-term course and outcome of acute and transient psychoses.
- Study of stress in relation to long term course and outcome in acute and transient psychotic disorders.
- A clinical and follow up study of childhood onset schizophrenia.
- A neurobiological (SPECT) study of childhood onset schizophrenia.
- To study patterns of recurrence in acute and transient psychotic disorders with special emphasis on seasonality.
- Construction & Standardization of Sex Knowledge and Attitude Test
- A psychosocial study of treatment – adherence in psychiatric patients
- Somatic Pre-occupation in Patients with Sexual Disorder – before and after treatment
- Study of Female Sexual Functioning : Relationship with Sex Knowledge and Attitude
- A prospective study of seasonality of affective disorders: Socio clinical characteristics
- Dynamics of Psychosexual dysfunction versus Bronchial asthma – a psycho physiological paradigm
- Quality of Life in Spouses of Psychosexual Dysfunctional Males
- Follow-up Study of Seasonality in Affective Disorders
- A study of knowledge and attitudes towards and patterns of condom use in patients attending STD clinic
- A study of Defense Mechanisms and Personality traits in Psychiatric patients with drawing as a tool in psychological assessment of children with externalizing and internalizing disorders
- Study of Temperament and Emotional disorders of childhood
- Temperament and Emotional response to physical Illness in children
- Study of Temperament of Mentally Handicapped Children
- Measurement of Stress in the Emotionally Disturbed Children.
- Temperament study of Children of Mentally Sick Parents
- Psychological adjustment and family burden in children and families of children withcongenital heart disease
- Marital adjustment of epileptic patients
- Long-term follow-up study of child psychiatric disorders in the community
- Distress associated with psychotic symptoms: The caregiver’s perspective.
- Neuropsychological assessment and patterns of specific learning disabilities.
- Assessments of cognitive functions in patients with first episode of bipolar affective disorder.
- Psychological profile and correlates of patients with deliberate self-harm behaviour.
- Rapid diagnosis of Common Mental Disorders by using PRIME- MD Patient Health Questionnaire.
- Assessment and rehabilitation of persons with psychiatric disability’’
- “Neuropsychological assessment and intervention in attention deficit hyperkinetic disorders (ADHD)”
- A study of antidepressant-induced manic switch.
- Comparative efficacy and safety of atypical antipsychotics versus haloperidol in patients of delirium.
- Attitude of patients with mental illness and their caregivers towards psychotropic medications.
- Assessment of needs of schizophrenia and bipolar patients.
- Neuropsychological impairments among patients with schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorder and their unaffected relatives.
- Translation and validation of Involvement Evaluation Questionnaire (IEQ), a measure of caregiver-burden.
- Revalidation of Illness Behaviour Questionnaire in Neurotic and Hypertensive.
- Dexamethasone Suppression Test in Obsessive Compulsive Neurosis and Schizophrenia.
- Applicability of Maternal Attitude and Maternal Adjustment Questionnaire in India.
- Diagnostic Criteria and Outcome of Schizophrenia.
- Inter-rater reliability of various definitions of Schizophrenia.
- Distinction between Negative and Depressive Symptoms in Schizophrenia and Depression.
- Follow-up Study of Positive and Negative Subtypes of Schizophrenia.
- Efficacy of Electroconvulsive Therapy in the Treatment of Schizophrenia.
- HLA Antigens in Schizophrenia.
- Stress in residents
- Magico-religious beliefs in patients with schizophrenia
- Beliefs in supernatural in patients with psychoses in the United Arab Emirates
- Prevalence and pattern of substance use in ‘dual diagnosis’ schizophrenia.
- Factors affecting short-term compliance with lithium prophylaxis in bipolar disorders.
- An examination of modifiable factors associated with disability in mental retardation.
- Translation and evaluation of psychometric properties (reliability) of Hindi Version of Involvement Evaluation Questionnaire”
- Neuropsychological impairments among patients with schizophrenia and their unaffected relatives.
- Intimate partner violence (IPV) amongst female psychiatric out-patients – A study from India
- Intimate partner violence (IPV) amongst substance use disorder patients
- Prophylactic efficacy of valproate in bipolar illness: a comparison with lithium carbonate
- Effectiveness and safety of risperidone, olanzapine and haloperidol in patients of delirium.
- Clinical and psychosocial study of old-age depression.
- Assessment of cognitive functions in patients with first episode of bipolar affective disorder.
- Distress associated with psychotic symptoms: the caregiver’s perspective.
- Clinical correlates of sexual dysfunction
- Factors associated with treatment non-adherence in patients discharged from psychiatry in-patient unit-prospective 6 month follow up study
- Prevalence and determinants of guilt in depression
- Screening of common mental disorder with Psoriasis
Department of Psychiatry
Sector 12, Chandigarh-160012
Telephone: +91-172275-6801 / 6812 / 6818
Email: psychiatryoffice.pgimer@gmail.com
