Sowmya Puthran's scientific contributions

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Stevens-Johnson syndrome is a severe immune-mediated cutaneous reaction occurring due to exposure to certain drugs. Lamotrigine is an FDA approved drug used in the treatment of bipolar depression. When it is given concomitantly with sodium valproate, the risk of developing Stevens-Johnson syndrome increases. Here we present the report of a patient...
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Psychiatric rehabilitation is a therapeutic approach in the management of mental illness which encourages people to recover from the illness and achieve their fullest potential through learning and environmental support. The method involves adapting the patient to his environment or modifies the environment to meet the patient's needs. The concept...
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Aim: To understand the attitude and knowledge of mental health professionals towards psychodrama. Materials and Methods: Knowledge and attitude towards psychodrama was studied during a basic psychodrama workshop for 30 mental health professionals, which included psychiatrists, residents of psychiatry, psychologists, social workers and mental health...
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Introduction: Foreign body aspiration is a common life threatening emergency but largely a preventable problem. There is an increase in the number of headscarf pin aspiration cases among young girls as a result of increase in the number of veiling population. With the number of hijab wearing population increasing all over the world, attention must...
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Culture refers to the shared patterns of feelings, beliefs and behaviour that reflect in the way of living in a society. Culture uniquely influence the role functioning or psychosoical wellbeing of people living in a given society by exerting influence on their mind by their traditional health beliefs. Cultural factors influence understanding, pres...

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... However, topiramate is also considered a promising approach for the treatment of BN, binge-eating disorder (BED), and substance abuse (especially alcohol and cocaine use disorders) (Himmerich et al., 2021;Nourredine et al., 2021). The use of topiramate in these conditions may be a confounding factor, as patients with AN and BN are predisposed to other addictive disorders, and topiramate may be misused for weight loss or control purposes (Herpertz-Dahlmann and Dahmen, 2019; Kakunje et al., 2020;Khera et al., 2016). Valproic acid is an antiepileptic drug used as a mood stabilizer, which exhibited potential safety signals in our study. ...
... The type of tracheobronchial foreign bodies may vary depending on age, geographic location, socioeconomic level, daily lifestyle, and religious beliefs. 5 The most common tracheobronchial foreign bodies are organic foreign bodies such as hazelnut, peanut, watermelon seed, chestnut, corn, chickpea and nutshell. 3,6 Many inorganic foreign bodies such as toy parts and pencils are also commonly aspirated into the tracheobronchial system. ...
... According to Eigen, different symbolic meaning is to be drawn depending on the body part of the snake emphasised: i.e., whether it is its eyes, tongue, fangs, anatomical form or even movement. 5 She was diagnosed with delusional infestation, which is a type of delusional disorder with somatic delusions. Munro proposed it in 1982 as a type of monosymptomatic hypochondriacal psychosis. ...
... 48 2. Tanı noktasında sırf tanıdık olmadığı için klinisyen "tuhaf bir düşünce, duygu ya da davranış"ı bir bozukluk olarak etiketlemeden önce semptomları kültürel yönleri ile birlikte değerlendirmelidir. 20,49 3, Bazı toplumlarda kültürün etkisi ile gerek ruh ve beden arasındaki ayrımın farklılıklar gösterebilmesi gerekse damgalanma endişesi nedeni ile ruhsal semptomların bedensel yakınmalar şeklinde yansımalarının olabilmesi mümkündür. Klinisyenlerin semptomları değerlendirme ve tanı koyma aşamasında bu gibi farklılıkları göz önünde bulundurmaları önemlidir. ...