NIMHANS

Departments

Department of

 Psychopharmacology

The
Department came into existence towards the end of 1983, believes in inter- departmental and inter- institutional collaborations. The department is awaiting clinical research unit to be established in collaboration with the clinical department or having its own clinical unit.

Objectives

• To provide specialized clinical services for Neurosychiatric disorders particularly when diagnosis needs to be confirmed.
• To provide information on study state plasma levels of psychotropic drugs for Clinical Management, Dosage Scheduling, Side Effects, Toxicity, Over dosage and Poisoning.
• To provide therapeutic drug monitoring.
• To establish pharmacokinetic database for psychotropic drugs for the Indian population.

Human Resource Development

Department has Doctoral training program, teaching services to Psychiatry and clinical Neurosciences departments. (For course details, please refer to the Prospectus, given elsewhere)

Rsearch

Current frontline research areas are,

• Neurodynamics
• Psychopharmacology of stress
• Electroconvulsive therapy

Contributions

Know-how on Biomental Signal Processing, Collaborations with various institutions like IISc and DEBEL.

Future Plans

• To understand the brain functions.
• To create a synthetic model of higher cognitive functions using nonlinear dynamics.