Depression in young adolescents
Journal Title: The Indian Practitioner - Year 2015, Vol 68, Issue 8
Abstract
In the last two decades depression in young adolescents has been accepted as a prominent health problem of this age group. Adolescent depression has some typical symptoms and is responsive to appropriate treatment. Depression in this age group is likely to disrupt the development of personality and eventual outcome in career, relationships and self esteem. A detailed review is presented.
Authors and Affiliations
Dr Vani Kulhalli
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP584924
- DOI -
- Views 48
- Downloads 0
Multidrug resistant extrapulmonary tuberculosis at a tertiary care centre
Extrapulmonary manifestation of tuberculosis is prevalent in 10-34% of non HIV cases while it occurs in 50-70% of patients co-infected with HIV. Very limited data is available for drug resistance in extrapulmonary tuberc...
Experiences of Pregnant Women Seeking Outpatient Services
Background: Use of health services depends on availability, accessibility, affordability as well as on social, personal characteristics and health beliefs of users, specially rural women. A very important factor is quali...
A comparative study of two important Flaviviridae infections in Burdwan district of West Bengal and adjacent areas
The changing trends in infection trends of two most important mosquito borne members - Japanese Encephalitis (JE) virus, and Dengue virus, were studied, in the rice-belt area of West Bengal (a JE endemic zone). Objectiv...
Pre-Staining of Bacterial Cell Proteins as A Research And Diagnostic Tool
We hereby describe a novel method of electrophoretic analysis of bacterial cell proteins prestained with a new reactive dye Coomassie Brilliant blue R-250 (CBB). The proposed method was standardised by studying as many a...
Study of prevalence of metabolic syndrome in systemic lupus erythematosus patients in western India
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), a systemic autoimmune disease and Metabolic Syndrome (MetS), both confer a proinflammatory and pro-thrombotic state with role in coronary artery disease, hence, focussed CHD risk asses...