Medical Institutes Recognition as a Centres of Excellence

Under the National Mental Health Programme, support has been provided for establishment of  11 Centres of Excellence in the country in the field of mental health during the 11^th Five Year  Plan by upgrading and  strengthening identified existing mental health hospitals/ institutes for  addressing the acute manpower gap and  provision of state of the art mental health care facilities in the long run. Preference was given to centres where  the respective State Governments showed commitment for faculty and other recurring expenditure  annually .

                             

The list of 11 Centres of Excellence is given below:

Sr.No	State/ UT	Mental Hospital/ Institute
1.	Andhra Pradesh	Institute of Mental Health, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
2.	Chandigarh	Department of Psychiatry, Govt. Medical College, Chandigarh
3.	Gujarat	Hospital for Mental Health, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
4.	Haryana	State Mental Health Institute, PanditBhagwatDayal Sharma University-
		of Health Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana
5.	Jammu and Kashmir	Psychiatric Diseases Hospital, Government Medical College, Srinagar, J&K
6.	Kerala	Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Kozhikode
7.	Maharashtra	Maharashtra Institute of Mental Health, Pune
8.	New Delhi	Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences, Shahdra, Delhi
9.	Orissa	Mental Health Institute, Cuttack
10.	Uttar Pradesh	Institute of Mental Health & Hospital, Agra, Uttar Pradesh
11.	West Bengal	Institute of Psychiatry- Kolkata, West Bengal

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Exercise -Sitting Time =Good Sleep

Insomniacs  looking for a good night's sleep may want to hit the treadmill, take a walk or play a game of golf or tennis because a new report released on Monday shows exercise promotes good sleep and the more vigorous the workout the better. 

Just 10 minutes of exercise a day could make a difference in the duration and quality of sleep, the survey by the non-profit National Sleep Foundation showed.

"We found that exercise and great sleep go together, hand in hand," Max Hirshkowitz, a sleep researcher and the chair of the poll task force, said in an interview.

"We also found a step-wise increase in how vigorous the quality is, in terms of how much you exercise. So if you say you exercise a lot, we found better sleep quality. For people who don't exercise at all we found more sleep problems."

Earlier research studies have shown the impact of exercise on sleep, but Hirshkowitz, who is a professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, said the survey is the first to detail the benefits of exercise in a nationally representative poll of this size.

People who described themselves as exercisers reported better sleep than their more sedentary counterparts, although the amount of sleep, an average of just under seven hours on weeknight, was the same.

More than 75 percent of the 1,000 people questioned in the Internet and telephone poll who described themselves as exercisers said they slept well, compared to just over half of people who did no exercise.

Very active people reported fewer sleep problems, dozed off quicker and needed less shut eye a night to function at their best during the day.

Sitting, more than eight hours daily also had a negative impact on sleep, according to the poll.

NAPS, STRUGGLING TO STAY AWAKE

Nearly half of Americans report experiencing insomnia occasionally, and 22 percent suffer from the condition, which can be caused by stress, anxiety, pain and medication, every or almost every night, according to the foundation. 

In addition to poorer sleep, non-exercisers also were less likely to report good or excellent health compared to active people and had more trouble staying awake while driving and eating. 

Nearly three times as many sedentary people said they have trouble keeping awake during the day than exercisers. They also took more naps and had more symptoms of sleep apnea, a disorder that causes shallow breaths or pauses in breathing during sleep, than exercisers,More than 44 percent of non-exercisers were at a moderate risk for sleep apnea, a higher percentage than active people questioned in the poll. 

The survey also seemed to debunk the idea that exercising early or late in the day would adversely impact sleep because it showed that being active at any time of the day was better than being sedentary. 

"Exercise is beneficial to sleep," Dr. Barbara Phillips, a member of the poll task force, said in a statement. "It's time to revise global recommendations for improving sleep and put exercise - any time - at the top of our list for healthy sleep habits." 

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Positivity on life leads to maintain healthier cholesterol levels

U.S. researchers writing in The American Journal of Cardiology have found better levels of "good cholesterol" and other markers of heart health in the blood of middle-aged study subjects with a sunny outlook on life. 

At least some of the connection between optimism and blood lipids in the new study appeared to result from the optimists' tendency to have a healthy body weight and a "prudent" diet, according to researchers. 

"It is one additional piece of evidence suggesting that our psychological health and physical health are intertwined, and that viewing the world optimistically may have some tangible benefits for our health," said lead author Julia Boehm, a research fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health. 

Previous research by Boehm and her colleagues had shown a link between optimism and lowered heart attack risk, so they decided to look at whether there was an independent connection between optimistic or pessimistic outlooks and cholesterol, which is known to play a role in heart attack risk. 

The group analyzed data from the Midlife in the United States study, which included phone interviews and lab tests for 990 people aged 40 to 70. 

Based on the interviews, participants' levels of optimism were rated on a scale from 6 to 30 depending on their agreement or disagreement with statements like "in uncertain times I usually expect the best." 

People with higher optimism scores also had more high-density lipoprotein (HDL), the desirable form of cholesterol that is believed to protect against heart disease. They also had lower levels of triglycerides, the fatty molecules involved in hardening of the arteries. 

There was no connection between optimism and total cholesterol levels, or to low-density lipoproteins (LDL), the "bad" cholesterol. Fore every increase of 5 points on the optimism scale, however, HDL in the blood increased by 1 milligram per deciliter. 

That same HDL increase would translated to a three percent reduction in the risk for heart disease, experts said. For comparison, regular exercise can decrease heart disease risk by six percent.

"Honestly, I'm not surprised, this is what I expect," said Franz Messerli, a cardiologist at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital in New York, who was not involved in the study. 

It's still impossible to say whether optimism causes a change in cholesterol, or cholesterol influences outlook, or both are subject to some third variable, Messerli said. 

Boehm's group did try to account for other influences, and when they factored in lifestyles, including diet and alcohol consumption, and body weight - the link between optimism and blood fats became weaker.

That suggests that optimists' tendency to have healthier lifestyles and weight may explain "in part" the differences in their blood lipids, researchers said. 

Conversely, the risk of heart attack and stroke goes up in depressed people, Messerli said. "But nobody has shown the opposite, that all of a sudden if you go from a pessimist to an optimist your risk goes down," he added.

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