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Beyond Early Intervention, Amresh Srivastava Jan 2011

Beyond Early Intervention, Amresh Srivastava

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Antipsychotics And Outcome In Schizophrenia, Amresh Srivastava, Anukant Mital Jan 2010

Antipsychotics And Outcome In Schizophrenia, Amresh Srivastava, Anukant Mital

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Predictors And Characteristics Of Response And Nonresponse: A Ten Year Follow-Up Of First Episode Schizophrenia In Mumbai, Amresh Shrivastava, Nilesh Shah, Megan Johnston, Larry Stitt, Meghana Thakar, Gurusamy Chinnasamy Jan 2010

Predictors And Characteristics Of Response And Nonresponse: A Ten Year Follow-Up Of First Episode Schizophrenia In Mumbai, Amresh Shrivastava, Nilesh Shah, Megan Johnston, Larry Stitt, Meghana Thakar, Gurusamy Chinnasamy

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▪ It is not clearly known what predicts good long-term outcome in first episode schizophrenia and what the characteristics are that differentiate patients who do and do not show good response

▪ We attempted to find the characteristics and predictors of good out-come for patients who presented with severe psychopathology and were hospitalized in their first episode psychosis in a tertiary psychiatric hospital in the city of Mumbai

▪ 101 patients of first episode schizophrenia were assessed at hospitalization, and reassessed at ten years

▪ The data was analyzed on 13 outcome parameters for predictors and characteristics of good outcome, …


Do Atypical Antipsychotics Differ In Determining Long-Term Outcome Of First Episode Schizophrenia? A Naturalistic Outcome Study In India, Amresh Srivastava, Nilesh Shah, Megan Johnston, Larry Stitt, Meghana Thakar, Gurusamy Chinnasamy, Anukant Mital Jan 2010

Do Atypical Antipsychotics Differ In Determining Long-Term Outcome Of First Episode Schizophrenia? A Naturalistic Outcome Study In India, Amresh Srivastava, Nilesh Shah, Megan Johnston, Larry Stitt, Meghana Thakar, Gurusamy Chinnasamy, Anukant Mital

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Antipsychotic medications form the mainstream of treatment in schizophrenia. These drugs have several short term as well long term advantage. It is not known if atypical antipsychotics have the long-term effect in improving outcome and meeting expectations (1,2,3). The present study examined usage and association of antipsychotics drugs with clinical outcome a long-term naturalistic study.


Should Schizoaffective Disorder Be Dropped From Dsm V, Amresh Srivastava Aug 2009

Should Schizoaffective Disorder Be Dropped From Dsm V, Amresh Srivastava

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Baseline Serum Prolactinin Drug Naïve First Episode Schizophrenia Predicts A Positive Clinical And Social Outcome At Five Years, Post Discharge Follow-Up, Amresh Srivastava, Manoj Tamhane, Meghana Thakar, Yves Bureau, Nilesh Shah May 2009

Baseline Serum Prolactinin Drug Naïve First Episode Schizophrenia Predicts A Positive Clinical And Social Outcome At Five Years, Post Discharge Follow-Up, Amresh Srivastava, Manoj Tamhane, Meghana Thakar, Yves Bureau, Nilesh Shah

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Serum prolactinis an indicator of tuberoinfundibulardopamine activity. It is reported to increase in wide variety of mental illnesses. It has close relationship with antipsychotic therapy. However, its relationship with psychopathology and outcome is not clear. Serum prolactinlevel was measured in 30 male and 30 female drug naive patients of schizophrenia. Subsequently, these patients were treated with antipsychotics. The severity of psychopathology at the baseline and subsequent improvement at the end of 3 weeks and 6 weeks was assessed on modified brief psychiatric rating scale (mBPRS). Available to follow up at five years 18 males & 22 females patients were reassessed …


Identifying Schizophrenia: Paradigm Shift ‘The Uhr Research’, Amresh Srivastava Jan 2009

Identifying Schizophrenia: Paradigm Shift ‘The Uhr Research’, Amresh Srivastava

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First Episode Is The Best Episode: Lessons And Limitations In Duration Of Untreated Psychosis (Dup) And Outcome In Schizophrenia, Amresh Srivastava, Larry Stitt, Meghana Thakar, Gurusamy Chinnasamy, Nilesh Shah Jan 2009

First Episode Is The Best Episode: Lessons And Limitations In Duration Of Untreated Psychosis (Dup) And Outcome In Schizophrenia, Amresh Srivastava, Larry Stitt, Meghana Thakar, Gurusamy Chinnasamy, Nilesh Shah

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Background: Early intervention in psychosis is an opportunity. Research ahs shown that if any thing community members can do to prevent psychosis is to report early. This has opened newer vistas for understanding the complexity of brain and behaviour in schizophrenia. At the same time it has raised the bar of expectations regarding its correlation to outcome. It finally narrows down to meaningful public campaign for awareness, which will decide success of research to clinics in schizophrenia management. Duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) has emerged as a reliable predictor of outcome and provides credence to development of early intervention services. …


Interface Of Cannabis And Early Psychosis--Priorities In Research And Service Development, Amresh Srivastava Oct 2008

Interface Of Cannabis And Early Psychosis--Priorities In Research And Service Development, Amresh Srivastava

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Introduction: cannabis continues to affect mental health. Its abuse is on rise globally. In Canada a rise by 30% in last ten years has been observed in high school students. Interrelationship of cannabis with psychosis and schizophrenia is a complex one. Cannabis is highly comorbid with psychosis, & related to functional disability and outcome. It poses several challenges in understanding causal relationship for comorbidity, underlying neurochemical basis and specifics of service development. Prevalence of Cannabis varies from 20 to 50% early psychosis. Objective of this paper is to review available literature to identify challenges for newer targets of research and …


Differential Characteristics Of “Good Outcome Schizophrenia” In A Long-Term Ten Years Study, Mumbai, India, Amresh Srivastava, Meghan Thakar, Nilesh Shah, Larry Stitt Sep 2008

Differential Characteristics Of “Good Outcome Schizophrenia” In A Long-Term Ten Years Study, Mumbai, India, Amresh Srivastava, Meghan Thakar, Nilesh Shah, Larry Stitt

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Outcome In Schizophrenia: The Long-Term Good Outcome In Schizophrenia Is Not Yet Good Enough, Amresh Srivastava, Meghan Thakar Sep 2008

Outcome In Schizophrenia: The Long-Term Good Outcome In Schizophrenia Is Not Yet Good Enough, Amresh Srivastava, Meghan Thakar

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The illness of schizophrenia has always been a matter of concern for its nature and extent of outcome particularly for its regional and cultural differences. The concept of outcome has been evolving and this study examines the scenario of good outcome in developing countries.


Outcome In Schizophrenia: How Good Is "Good Outcome" Schizophrenia In Long-Term In Developing Countries, Amresh Srivastava, Meghan Thakar, Nilesh Shah, Larry Stitt Sep 2008

Outcome In Schizophrenia: How Good Is "Good Outcome" Schizophrenia In Long-Term In Developing Countries, Amresh Srivastava, Meghan Thakar, Nilesh Shah, Larry Stitt

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No abstract provided.


Mood Symptoms As Comorbidity In Schizophrenia, Amresh Srivastava Jun 2008

Mood Symptoms As Comorbidity In Schizophrenia, Amresh Srivastava

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No abstract provided.


Relapse Prevention In Schizophrenia, Amresh Srivastava May 2008

Relapse Prevention In Schizophrenia, Amresh Srivastava

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No abstract provided.


Schizophrenia: General Findings And Current Status, Amresh Srivastava Feb 2007

Schizophrenia: General Findings And Current Status, Amresh Srivastava

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Cognition As An Outcome Measure In Schizophrenia, Amresh Srivastava Jan 2007

Cognition As An Outcome Measure In Schizophrenia, Amresh Srivastava

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No abstract provided.


Atypical Antipsychotics And Cognitive Enhancement In Schizophrenia: The Current Status, Amresh Srivastava Jan 2007

Atypical Antipsychotics And Cognitive Enhancement In Schizophrenia: The Current Status, Amresh Srivastava

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No abstract provided.