A Case Of “Rapidly Progressive” Progressive Supranuclear Palsy

Shailendra Mohan Tripathi, Priti Singh , Ravi Soni, Rakesh Kumar Tripathi , S.C.Tiwari

Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is an uncommon brain disorder that affects movement, control of walking (gait) and balance, speech, swallowing, vision, mood and behavior, and thinking. The disease results from damage to nerve cells in the brain. It is grouped under Parkinson-Plus syndrome as the parkisonian symptoms and cognitive impairment present at the same time........

Tripathi SM, Singh P, Soni R, A case of “rapidly progressive” progressive supranuclear Tripathi RK, Tiwari SC. palsy.  Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 2016; 58(supplement), S146-S147.
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Personality of Schizophrenics on Dimension Personality Inventory (DPI)

IJSAR, 2(8), 2015; 08-15

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Rupali Chandola1, Aradhna Shukla1, Rakesh Kumar Tripathi2*

1Department of Psychology, Kumaun University Campus, Almora, Uttrakhand, India. 2Department of Geriatric Mental Health, King George‟s Medical University UP, Lucknow, India.

Correspondence Address: *Dr. Rakesh Kumar Tripathi, Assistant Professor cum Clinical Psychologist, Department of Geriatric Mental Health, King George‟s Medical University UP, Lucknow, India. _________________________________________________________________________________Abstract: 

This study examined the personality characteristics of 40 schizophrenic inpatients of Psychiatry department, Susheela Tiwari Forest Medical Collage, Haldwani, Uttrakhand and 40 normal controls (General Health Questionnaire-12 negative) from Awas Vikas Colony, Rudrapur, Uttrakhand, India. Subjects fulfilling inclusion/exclusion criteria and giving written informed consent were included in the study. A comparison of their personality profile on Dimension Personality Inventory (DPI)-B revealed that there was significant difference (p<0.05) in the mean scores on different dimensions of personality between schizophrenic and normal group. Schizophrenics were found to be passive, non-enthusiastic, submissive, suspicious, depressive and emotionally instable however, normal individuals were on opposite dimension of these. Males were found to be assertive of both the groups. Study findings revealed that schizophrenics can be differentiated from normals on the basis of personality characteristics.
Keywords: Dimension Personality Inventory, Personality, Schizophrenia
Introduction
Studying personality of an individual was used to be a very interesting subject not only in ancient era but even today. The ancient Indian model of “personality”, described in the Upanishads consists of the five sheaths. These are ‘Annamaya’, ‘Pranamaya’, ‘Manomaya’ ‘Vijnanamaya’ and ‘Anandamaya’. (Das, 1987.) In Atharv Veda and Bhagwat Gita personality was discussed in the terms of Triguna i.- ‘Sattvik Guna’, ‘Rajasik Guna’ and ‘Tamsik Guna’ of an individual (Srivastava , 2012). There are seven types Sattvik, six kinds of Rajasik and three types of Tamasik, total 16 types of personalities under which persons can be classified (Mukherjee , 2007). A triguna scale has....
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Does Personality of Psychopaths differ from Normal?

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Rupali Chandola1 , Aradhna Shukla1 , Rakesh Kumar Tripathi2 *

1Department of Psychology, Kumaun University Campus, Almora, Uttrakhand, India 1Department of Psychology, Kumaun University Campus, Almora, Uttrakhand, India 2Assistant Professor cum Clinical Psychologist, Department of Geriatric Mental Health, King George‟s Medical University UP, Lucknow, India. Correspondence Address: *Dr. Rakesh Kumar Tripathi, Assistant Professor cum Clinical Psychologist, Department of Geriatric Mental Health, King George‟s Medical University UP, Lucknow, India-226003.

International Journal of Sciences & Applied Research ( IJSAR), 2(12), 2015; 20-26. _________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract

Background: Personality of an individual determines his behavior towards others. Psychopaths behave differently. Therefore, study was conducted to know that, which personality dimension of psychopaths differ from normal. Methods: Study examined personality dimension of 80 subjects selected purposively. Of them 40 were normal subjects (20 male & 20 female) and 40 psychopaths (20 male & 20 female). GHQ-12 negative subjects from the community formed the normal group. Dimension Personality Inventory (DPI-B) was administered on all the included subjects. Results: Mean scores on DPI-B reveal that normal and psychopath group were significantly (p<0.05) differ on all the six personality dimensions i.e. „activity-passivity‟, „enthusiastic-non enthusiastic‟, „assertive-submissive‟, „suspicious-trusting‟, „depressive-non depressive‟ and „emotional instability-emotional stability‟. Mean scores were found to be significantly higher of psychopaths compared with normal group. Conclusion: Personality of psychopath can be differentiated on „depressive-nondepressive‟ and „suspicious-trusting‟ dimensions on DPI-B. Psychopaths were found to be „depressive‟ and „suspicious‟ in present study. Keywords: GHQ-12, DPI, Personality, Psychopaths