Background: In most low-and-middle income countries, more than 50% of the population are children and adolescents. There are very few child and adolescent mental health professionals to attend to the mental health needs of this population. Therefore, screening instruments that ar...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2017/37760
Background: There are different possible temporal associations between epileptic seizures and headache attacks which have given rise to unclear or controversial terminologies. The classification of the International League Against Epilepsy does not refer to this type of disorder,...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2017/37649
Background: Non-adherence to psychotropic medication among psychiatric patients is one among the huge medical problem in Saudi Arabia. Most of the psychiatric patients do not adhere to the instruction of the physician in such a way that they reappear in the hospital after medicat...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2017/37064
Aim of the Study: Is to evaluate interlaminar discectomy in terms of: accessibility, safety and clinical outcome. Background: Interlaminar approach for lumbar Discectomy is a less invasive technique that allows accessibility to a herniated disc via resection of ligamentum flavum...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2017/36295
Background and Aims: Alzheimer’s disease is the most common neurodegenerative disorder worldwide. The long noncoding RNA, BACE1-AS, acts as a regulator of BACE1 transcript which its product involves in Alzheimer’s disease pathobiology. We investigated the frequency and associatio...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2017/36597
Background: Falls are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the elderly and are associated with cognitive impairment. In this study, we described the association of mild cognitive impairment and dementia with number of falls among elderly patients presenting with fall injur...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2017/36582
Adolescence is a potentially stressful period characterised by various developmental changes. Disruption in provision and utilisation of mental health services during the transition from adolescence to adulthood has dire implications on clinical outcomes. There is dearth of data...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2017/36129
Objectives of Study: Hepatic Encephalopathy is a spectrum of neuropsychiatric abnormalities in patients with acute or chronic liver dysfunction, after exclusion of brain disease. It is characterized with intellectual impairment, personality changes, and a depressed state of consc...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2017/35563
Topiramate is an antiepileptic drug, used also for prevention of an episodic migraine. Its effects include sodium-channel-blocking activity, enhancement of cerebral GABA concentrations and antagonism of AMPA/kainate receptors, which leads to a decreased glutamate-mediated excitat...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2017/35961
Background: Individuals with first episode psychoses often discontinue pharmacotherapy due to poor symptom remission and/or intolerable side effects. Aripiprazole has been reported to show good efficacy with low side effect profiles in Caucasians. No studies have been conducted t...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2017/34977