Browsing by Author "Prakash B. Behere"

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Differential diagnosis of childhood psychoses
(Springer India, 1981) Prakash B. Behere
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Humoral concepts of mental illness in India
(1988) Mitchell G. Weiss; Amit Desai; Sushrut Jadhav; Lalit Gupta; S.M. Channabasavanna; D.R. Doongaji; Prakash B. Behere
Based on interviews with patients at three allopathic psychiatric clinics in Bombay, Bangalore and Varanasi, employing a preliminary version of the Explanatory Model Interview for Classification (EMIC) to elicit indigenous explanations of illness and patterns of prior help seeking, we discuss popular humoral theories of mental disorder. Even though most laypersons are unfamiliar with the content of the classical treatises of Ayurveda, the humoral traditions which they represent influence current perceptions. Case vignettes clarify the nature of the relationship between cultural, familial and personal factors that influence the experience of illness. © 1988.
The right‐ear advantage in schizophrenia
(1993) Veena Shukla; Prakash B. Behere; Manas K. Mandal
Schizophrenics, patients with affective disorder and normal controls were tested on a verbal dichotic listening task at three time periods, 0–2, 4–6 and 14–16 weeks. Schizophrenics had non‐significant ear difference during the acute state of illness (0–2 weeks) and the normal right‐ear advantage emerged when acuteness subsided (14–16 weeks). 1993 The British Psychological Society