- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Family Support in Illness
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Infant Health and Development
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Pharmaceutical studies and practices
- Treatment of Major Depression
- Cognitive Functions and Memory
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Groundwater and Watershed Analysis
- Language Development and Disorders
- Congenital heart defects research
National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences
2014-2024
Hunter New England Local Health District
2024
Deakin University
2023
National Institute of Technology Karnataka
2015
Arsenic, a contaminant of groundwater and irrigated crops, is global public health hazard. Exposure to low levels arsenic through food extends well beyond the areas with high content in water.
Abstract Background Low and middle-income countries like India with a large youth population experience different environment from that of high-income countries. The Consortium on Vulnerability to Externalizing Disorders Addictions (cVEDA), based in India, aims examine environmental influences genomic variations, neurodevelopmental trajectories vulnerability psychopathology, focus externalizing disorders. Methods cVEDA is longitudinal cohort study, planned missingness design for yearly...
NEED FOR CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES Assessing children and adolescents is challenging. Generally, the child/adolescent in question would not have initiated consultation or may be agreement with need for a consultation. The even sought most impairing problem at hand. While able to report nature of symptoms, they very good reporting timing duration their problems. They problems if are embarrassing show them bad light. Clinical assessments are, therefore, elaborate require clinician astute...
Objective Impairments in episodic future thinking and anticipatory pleasure were noted to explain the depressive symptoms adults however similar studies are not there adolescents. This study examined whether impairments clinically-depressed adolescents as compared non-depressed adolescents, their association with depression when controlled for executive functions anxiety among depressed Methods The included 29 major from local schools through convenient sampling technique. All participants...
An increase in the built-up area watershed is a preliminary measurable indicator to understand effect of urban development on hydrologic response watershed. In this paper, land use/ cover map sub Periyar River processed from Indian Remote Sensing(IRS) satellite created spatial distribution built –up and detect expansion up peri-urban areas Cochin, Kerala, India. The Satellite imagery IRS –1C LISS – III dated 7th February 1995 –P6 13th 2005 were imported ERDAS Imagine create LU/LC using...
Background and goals. The children's rights movement in India is relatively recent the juvenile justice system a young one. This article aims to provide an introduction discuss challenges present before it initiatives taken address those challenges. Methods. Information was compiled from following sources: 1) Websites of major agencies Government India, namely Ministry Women Child Development (MoWCD), National Commission for Protection Rights (NCPCR), Crime Records Bureau (NCRB); 2) authors'...
Almost 1/5th of the adolescent population suffers from mental morbidity. In older adolescents, clinical challenges are accompanied by unique psychosocial and developmental needs. Recent legislations in India - Mental Health Care Act, 2017 Juvenile Justice 2015 mandate specific arrangements provisions for evaluation treatment children adolescents. A separate inpatient Adolescent Psychiatry Center (APC) was started at National Institute Neurosciences, Bangalore, 2016.(a) The aim this study is...
Nepal is a developing low-income country in Southeast Asia. There huge burden of child and adolescent mental health (CAMH) which has population around 29 million 40-50% the comprises children adolescents. Child Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP) not been formally recognized as subspecialty there no standardized curriculum for CAP training. The objectives survey were to identify current status training, shortfalls explore training experiences early career psychiatrists (ECPs) Nepal.The participants...
While impairments in future thinking are well established adults with psychiatric disorders, this is not so much the case for adolescents, among whom memory specificity, but thinking, have been observed. This study examined autobiographical and its correlation a range of cognitive functioning tasks 57 adolescents (M age = 15.8, SD 1.1, 13-17) or current major depressive disorder. Significant differences between groups were found specificity anticipatory pleasure, trend, significant,...