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K.Srinivasan

K.Srinivasan
Dean, St. John's Research Institute
Head of Mental health Unit, St.John's Research Institute
Professor & Head, Department of Psychiatry, St. John's Medical College Hospital
Head of Maternal & Child Health Unit

Unit/Division
 
Maternal & Child Health Unit
Research Interests
 
Autonomic function regulation in anxiety and depression
 
High risk study of children of parents with anxiety & panic disorders
 
To examine the link between mood disorders and cardiovascular morbidity
 
Impact of antenatal and postnatal psychological distress on child's psychomotor development
 
Impact of nutritional supplements on Child's psychomotor development.
Degrees
 
M.B.B.S., 1979, Delhi University
 
Diploma in Psychological Medicine, 1981; National Institue of Mental Health Neuro Sciences
 
MD (Psychiatry), 1983; National Institute of Mental health and Neurosciences
Recent Publications
 
Sucharita S, Srinivasan K, Vaz M. Is resting heart rate variability following 12 hours of abstinence similar to that of non smokers ? Indian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology (In Press).
 
Sucharita S, Srinivasan K, Vaz M. Does level of Instrumentation affect resting heart rate variability ? Indian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology (In Press).
 
Isaacs A, Neerakal I, Srinivasan K, Jayaram G. Initiating a community mental health programme in rural Karnataka. Indian Journal of Community Medicine (In Press).
 
Srinivasan K. Childhood anxiety disorder and heart rate variability. In Focus on Panic Disorder. Ed., Sanfellippo, Augustin J., Nova Science, New York (In Press).
 
Srinivasan K, Willie Joseph. A study of lifetime prevalence of anxiety and depressive disorders in patients presenting with chest pain to emergency medicine. General Hospital Psychiatry. 2004; 26: 470-474.
 
Srinivasan K. Undergraduate psychiatric education and training of general practitioners in mental health care. In Menatl Health : An Indian perspective (1946-2003). Ed., Agarwal, SP. Elsevier, New Delhi, 2004; 210-214.
 
Srinivasan K, Ashok MV, Vaz M, Yeragani VK. Effect of imipramine on linear and nonlinear measures of heart rate variability in children. Pediatric Cardiology. 2004; 25: 20-25.
 
Sunita Simon K, Tandon H, Srinivasan K. Waist circumference correlate better with body mass index than does the waist hip ratio in Asian Indians in South India: A preliminary study. National Medical Journal of India. 2003; 16: 189-192.
 
Srinivasan K, Sucharita S, Vaz M. Effect of standing on short term heart rate variability across age. Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging. 2002; 22: 404-408.
 
Iby N, Srinivasan K. A phenomenological study of panic attacks in patients from India. Psychopathology. 2003; 36: 92-97.
 
Yeragani VK, Rao KAR, Smitha MR, Pohl R, Balon R, Srinivasan K. Diminished chaos of heart rate time series in patients with major depression. Biological Psychiatry. 2002; 51: 733-744.
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