Dr Sanil Rege

April 29, 2018

Time to read: 10 minutes

Antipsychotic medications were discovered serendipitously in the 1950’s, when Chlorpromazine, which has antihistaminic properties was also observed to...

 Dr Sanil Rege

April 28, 2018

Time to read: 10 minutes

Mood disorders are broadly classified as bipolar or depressive disorders. Bipolar disorder is a chronic recurrent mood disorder where patients ca...

 Dr Sanil Rege

March 26, 2018

Time to read: 10–12 minutes

In early February 2018, the Australian government published their health spending figures for 2015/2016, which showed that $9 billion was spent on menta...

 Dr Sanil Rege

March 26, 2018

Time to read: 7 minutes

The recent Cipriani et al. systematic review and network meta-analysis is the largest and most comprehensive examination of antidepressant efficacy and ...

 Dr Sanil Rege

January 28, 2018

Time to read: 27–32 minutes

The hallmark of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is the presence of obsessions and compulsions. It has a bimodal incidence, with peaks occurring in l...

 Dr Sanil Rege, Dr James Graham

November 29, 2017

Time to read: 12–15 minutes

Psychological trauma involves witnessing of a traumatic or life-threatening event directly to yourself or others. The individual is likely to experience...

 Dr Sanil Rege

July 21, 2017

Time to read: 1 minutes

This interactive learning tool has been designed from key guidelines on mixed features and depression to help assess patients with Majo...

 Dr Sanil Rege

January 5, 2017

Time to read: 5 minutes

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. ...

November 6, 2016

Time to read: 1 minutes

Compliance to medication is an important clinical issue in psychiatry as non-compliance to medication is one of the commonest causes of treatment failur...

September 3, 2016

Time to read: 2 minutes

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