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Vikram Patel - global mental health
No full textProfessor Vikram Patel on World Mental Health Day, 10 Oct 2013
Vikram Patel - my career in mental health and being in the TIME 100
No full textVikram Patel, psychiatrist and Professor of International Mental Health at the School, was among the 2015 TIME 100, its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Vikram talks about his career and the importance of taking mental health more seriously.
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Ep. 37 - Vikram Mansharamani, Trend Spotter, not a Lawyer
No full textFuture law means understanding worlds beyond law. Lawyers spend a lot of time talking to other lawyers. This episode features a fascinating conversation with Vikram Mansharamani, a consultant, author, and importantly, not a lawyer, about macro trends in the economy and society that will inevitably come to affect legal professionals and legal systems
Global mental health: an interview with Vikram Patel.
Full text linkIn this podcast, we talk to Professor Vikram Patel about the impact of global mental health in the field of medicine, and discuss the initiatives and platforms being developed to promote capacity building, research, policy and advocacy within the established Centre for Global Mental Health. The anticipated challenges, controversies, and future directions for this discipline of global health are highlighted as well.The podcast for this interview is available at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/sites/2999/download/Patel.mp3
Writers, novels and banyan trees: notes on Vikram Seth\u27s A Suitable Boy
No full textVikram Seth\u27s first prose novel A Suitable Boy (1993) has been considered by critics and reviewers as a return to traditional ways of writing, particularly after the eighties, a decade of experimentation in the novel. However, a close reading of the book may reveal connections in the narrative with a contemporary mood also found in other recent novels. The aim of this article is to show that Seth\u27s work is deeply embedded in the ideological issues of its time, despite Seth\u27s anti-intellectual statements in a conversation with the author which is also recorded here
Severe progressive brain atrophy in pediatric multiple sclerosis
No full textBACKGROUND: Multiple sclerosis is an immune-mediated disease of the central nervous system. Progressive brain atrophy is a known marker of patient disability and cognitive impairment in MS patient, but limited information is available about the clinical and cognitive consequences in the pediatric population. CASE REPORT: We present a case of aggressive pediatric-onset MS with severe rapidly progressive brain atrophy, neurological disability, and cognitive deterioration. Serial brain MRI studies demonstrate ongoing cerebral atrophy correlating with severe deficits on serial neuropsychological testing. CONCLUSIONS: A subset of pediatric MS patient may be vulnerable to severe cognitive deterioration associated with marked brain atrophy.Peer reviewe
Q&A: Scaling up delivery of mental health treatments in low and middle income countries: interviews with Retha Arjadi and Vikram Patel
Full text linkIn this Q&A, we talk with Retha Arjadi and Vikram Patel about using new technologies and lay-counselor support for scalable delivery of mental health treatment in low and middle-income countries
Vikram and the Undead
No full textVikram and the Undead is a contemporary retelling of a cycle of stories from an eleventh-century Sanskrit text, Somadeva’s Kathasaritsagara. Widely considered the largest single collection of stories in the world and the oldest documented frame story, a selection of this text (via a Hindi version called Baital Pachisi) was adapted into English with an Orientalist slant in the nineteenth century by scholar-explorer Richard Francis Burton. Aimed at his Victorian audience, Burton’s book Vikram and the Vampire is subtitled “Tales of Hindu Devilry” and includes eleven stories placed within a framing narrative that links the otherwise unrelated stories. These become the foundation of the revisionist work undertaken by this creative dissertation. Vikram and the Undead is hence a double retelling that is in conversation with Burton’s text as well as Somadeva’s compilation of Indian folklore and oral tradition. In the spirit of a storytelling model where everyone in the text is simultaneously storyteller, listener and performer, Burton is also a character in Vikram and the Undead, forming yet another link between its multiple narratives. Sharing with the original a celebration of the delights of earthly life and the infinite nature of storytelling, these stories attempt to speak to the socio-cultural realities of contemporary India, particularly the role and agency of women. They are whimsical, philosophical, laced with the fantastic, and constantly dissolving the lines between telling and listening, questions and answers, beginnings and endings, life and death.
Vikram Seth an anthology of recent criticism
No full textVikram Seth, b. 1952, Indo-English litterateur; contributed articles; some previously published
April 2015 - Malaria and mental health
No full textVikram Patel talks about being included in TIME magazine's annual list of 100 most influential people. He also discusses his career and the importance of taking mental health more seriously. Brian Greenwood discusses trial results from the most advanced malaria vaccine in development, and also talks about his career in global health,
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