Syllabus
Semester I
- Basic Sciences as applied to Psychiatry
- Monoamine Neurotransmitters and their implications for
- Psychiatric Disorders
- Excitatory Amino Acids in Psychiatric Disorders
- Neuropeptides and their relevance to Psychiatry
- Second Messenger Systems and Beyond
- Basic and applied Electrophysiology
- Magnetic Resonance and Implications for Psychiatry
- Consciousness
- Sleep and Dreaming
- Chronobiology
- Transcultural Psychiatry
- Aggression: Psychology and Biology
- Intelligence
- Learning Theories
- Information Processing: Brain Models of Mind
- Experimental Animal Research and Implications for
- Mental Disorder
Semester II
- Clinical Psychiatry
- Approaching to Psychiatric Diagnosis and Classification
- Etiology and Clinical Profile of Dementias
- Organic Delusional, Mood and Personality Disorders
- Concept and Typology of Schizophrenia
- Biological Basis of Schizophrenia
- Course, Outcome and Prognosis of Schizophrenia
- Brief and Reactive Psychosis
- Etiological Theories of Mood Disorders
- Subtypes of Depressive Disorders and their Clinical Relevance
- Course and Outcome of Mood Disorders
- Paranoid Disorders
- Concept and Typology of Personality Disorders
- Antisocial Personality Disorders
Semester III
- Anxiety disorders
- Nosological status and natural history
- Reactions to severe stress
- Current concept of dissociative disorders
- Somatization disorders: Diagnosis and clinical features
- Nosological status and clinical features of Neurasthenia
- Non-organic sleep disorders
- Recent advances in eating disorders
- Management of premature ejaculation
- Psychiatric aspects of homosexuality
- Biological basis of anxiety
- Habit and impulse disorders
Semester IV
- Models of psychotherapy: An overview
- Scientific evaluation of efficacy of psychotherapy: methodological problems
- Brief dynamic psychotherapies
- Behavioural therapies
- Cognitive therapies
- Supportive psychotherapies
- Psychological management of sexual dysfunctions
- Comparative pharmacology of antipsychotic drugs
- Short-term side effects of antipsychotic drugs and their management
- Tardive dyskinesia: pathophysiology and management
- Recent advances in antidepressant drug therapy
- Management of a suicidal patient
- Role of Lithium in Psychiatric disorders
- Adjuncts and alternatives to Lithium in the management of mood disorders
- Drug treatment of generalized anxiety and panic disorders
- Recent advances in drug treatment of obsessive compulsive disorders
- Electro-convulsive Therapy: current trends
- Human Rights of psychiatric patients
- Ethics in Psychiatry
- Indian Mental Health Act
- Epidemiology of psychiatric Illness in Old Age with Special Reference to India.
- Current Issues in Management of Elderly Psychiatric Patients.
- Integration of Mental Health into Primary Care - Its Role and Future in India.
- Classification of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders.
- Learning Disorders of Childhood
- Child Abuse and Neglect
- School Refusal
- Pervasive Development Disorders of Childhood
- Preventive Aspects of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders
- Neuro Psychological Assessment of Children
- Dementia: Differential Diagnosis and Management
- Delirium: Differential Diagnosis and Management
- Psychiatric Syndromes with Epilepsy
- Neuro-psychiatric Sequelae of HIV Infection
- Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
- Psychological Aspects of Cardio-vascular Disorders
- Psychological Aspects of Gastro-intestinal Disorders
- The Terminally Ill Patient and Family
- Psychological Aspects of Breast Cancer
- Obesity
- Concept and Assessment of Disability
- Concept and Measurement of Quality of Life
- Neuro-psychological Assessment and its Relevance to Psychiatric Diagnosis and Management
- Stress and Psychological Disorders
- Psychological Aspects of Organ Transplantation