Ethnopsychiatry - A review

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 483-490

  Gadit, A A ^a  

^a HAMDARD UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

AGRANULOCYTOSIS; AKATHISIA; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; AMENORRHEA; ANHIDROSIS; ANXIETY DISORDER; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONSTIPATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DYSTHYMIA; DYSTONIA; EJACULATION DISORDER; EPILEPSY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEAR; GALACTORRHEA; GLAUCOMA; HALLUCINATION; HEADACHE; HEALING; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPERHIDROSIS; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTHERMIA; HYSTERIA; INDIA; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MICTURITION DISORDER; MUSCLE TWITCH; NEUROLEPTIC MALIGNANT SYNDROME; OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PARKINSONISM; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; PSYCHOSIS; RELIGION; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; TACHYCARDIA; TARDIVE DYSKINESIA; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TREMOR; URINE RETENTION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WEIGHT GAIN; XEROSTOMIA;

ETHNOPSYCHOLOGY; FOLKLORE; HUMANS; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MENTAL DISORDERS; PAKISTAN;

EID: 0346093647     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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