Publications
Epidemology
Prevalence of Schizophrenia in an urban community in
Madras.
R. Padmavati, S. Rajkumar, Narendra Kumar, et al..
Indian Journal of Psychiatry, July 1988 (31)
(3), pp.233-239..
Schizophrenia in India, Epidemiology,
phenomenology, course and outcome.
R.
Thara, R. Padmavati, Vijay Nagaswami.
International Review of Psychiatry, 1993, vol. 5, no.2/3.
Incidence of schizophrenia in an urban community
in Madras.
S. Rajkumar, R. Padmavati, R. Thara, M. Sarada Menon.
Indian
journal of Psychiatry, 1993, vol.35 (1) 18-21.
Schizophrenic patients who were never treated- a
study in an indian urban community.
R.
Padmavati, S. Rajkumar, T.N. Srinivasan
Psychological medicine, 1998, 28, 1113-1117.
Prevalence of dementia in a rural setting: a report from
India
S. Rajkumar, Shuba Kumar ,R.
Thara.
International journal of geriatric psychiatry, vol.12:
702-707 (1997)
Course and Outcome
Study of relapses in schizophrenia using the
life table method.
R. Thara, K.J.
Raman, T.N. Srinivasan, et al.
Indian
journal of Psychiatry, 1987, 29 (3), pp 263-267.
Occupation and schizophrenia.
R. Thara, S. Rajkumar, V. Valecha
Indian journal of Psychiatry, 1987, 3 (3), 260-273.
Factors affecting relapse in
schizophrenia
S. Rajkumar, R. Thara
Schizophrenia Research, 1989, 2, 403-409
A study of sample attrition in follow up of
schizophrenia.
R. Thara, S. Rajkumar
Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 1990,
32 (3), 217-222.
Ten-year course of schizophrenia-the Madras
Longitudinal Study
R. Thara, M.Henrietta
.A Joseph, S. Rajkumar, W.W. Eaton.
Acta
Psychiatr Scand 1994, 90, 329-336
Structure and course of positive and negative
symptoms in schizophrenia
William W. Eaton,
R. Thara, B. Federman et al
Archives
of General Psychiatry, 1995, 52, 127-134.
Outcome of schizophrenia: the Madras
Longitudinal study.
R. Thara, W.W. Eaton
Australian & New Zealand journal of Psychiatry,
1996,30: 516-522.
Outcome of marriage in schizophrenia
R. Thara, T.N. Srinivasan.
Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology. 1997, 32,
416-420
How do men with schizophrenia fare at work? - a
follow-up study from India.
T.N.
Srinivasan, R. Thara.
Schizophrenia
Research 1997, 25, 149-154
Remission and relapse in schizophrenia: the
Madras Longitudinal Study.
W.W.Eaton, R.
Thara, E.Federman, et al
The Journal
of Nervous and Mental disease, 1998, vol. 186, no.6 pp357-363
The long-term home-making functioning of women
with schizophrenia
T.N. Srinivasan, R.
Thara
Schizophrenia Research 1999, 35,
97-98
Recovery from psychotic illness: a 15- and 25-
year international follow-up study
G.Harrison, R. Thara et al
British journal
of Psychiatry 2001, 178, 506-517.
Initiating care for untreated schizophrenia
patients and results of one year follow-up.
T.N. Srinivasan, S. Rajkumar & R.
Padmavati
International journal of social psychiatry 2001, vol.47 no.2 73-80
Duration of untreated psychosis and treatment outcome in
schizophrenia patients untreated for many years.
N. Srinivasan Tirupati , Thara Rangaswamy,
Padmavati Raman
Australian and New Zealand Journal of
Psychiatry
Volume 38 Issue 5 Page 339 - May 2004
Twenty –year course of schizophrenia : The
Madras Longitudinal Study.
R.Thara.
Canadian J of Psychiatry Vol.49. No.
8, August 2004.
Psychopathology in never-treated
schizophrenia
Srinivasan TN, Padmavati R, Thara R & McCreadie
RG
Comprehensive Psychiatry 2006, 47, 1-6.
Is the outcome of schizophrenia really better in
developing countries?
Patel V, Cohen A, Thara
R, Gureje O.
Rev Bras Psiquiatr. 2006 Jun;28(2):149-52. Epub 2006 Jun 26.
Insight and psychopathology in never-treated
schizophrenia.
Tirupathi S, Padmavati R, Thara R and Mc Craedie
RG
Comprehensive Psychiatry. 2007
May-Jun;48(3):264-8.
Questioning an Axiom: Better Prognosis for
Schizophrenia in the Developing World?
Cohen A, Patel V, Thara R
& Gureje O.
Schizophr Bull. 2007 Sep 28
Abnormal Movements
Abnormal movements in never-medicated Indian patients
with schizophrenia
R.G.
McCreadie, R. Thara, S. Kamath, et al
British
journal of Psychiatry (1996), 168, 242/1-6.
Poor memory, negative symptoms and abnormal
movements in never-treated Indian patients with schizophrenia
.
R.G. McCreadie, S. Latha,
R. Thara, et al
British journal of Psychiatry (1997), 171, 360-363.
Ser9gly dopamine d3 receptor polymorphism and
spontaneous dyskinesia in never medicated schizophrenic patients.
R. Thara, R. Padmavati, R. Levlie, et al
Molecular psychiatry (2001) 6, 6-12
Relationship of extrapyramidal symptoms to age
at onset and drug treatment in middle-aged and elderly schizophrenic
patients
.
T.N. Srinivasan, R. Thara, R.
Padmavati, R.G. McCreadie
Schizophrenia Research,
vol.47, no. 1, 15-jan-(2001).
Spontaneous dyskinesia and parkinsonism in never
medicated, chronically ill patients with schizophrenia : 18 month
follow-up
.
McCreadie RG, Padmavati R, Thara
R & Srinivasan TN.
British Journal of Psychiatry 181, 135-137, 2002.
Structural brain differences between never treated
patients with schizophrenia, with and without dyskinesia and normal
subjects
McCreadie RG, Thara R, Padmavati R, Srinivasan TN &
Jaipurkar SD.
Archives of General Psychiatry, vol.59, April 2002.
Spontaneous dyskinesia in first degree
relatives of chronically ill, never treated people with
schizophrenia
McCreadie RG, Thara R,
Srinivasan TN & Padmavati R
British Journal of Psychiatry, 183, 45-49,2003.
Extrapyramidal symptoms in unmedicated
schizophrenia.
McCreadie RG, Srinivasan TN, Padmavati R, Thara R.
J Psychiatr Res. 2005 May;39(3):261-6
Intervention Including Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation of schizophrenic
patients .
M. Sarada Menon, Vijay
Nagaswami.
Continuing Medical Education programme, vol. V, 1985
pg. 17-30.
Rehabilitation needs of schizophrenic patients-
a preliminary report.
Vijay Nagaswami,
Vijayalakshmi Valecha, R. Thara et al
Indian journal of Psychiatry, july 1985,27 (3), pp 213-220.
Recent trends in rehabilitation
research.
Vijay Nagaswamy, R.Thara, M.
Sarada Menon.
Indian journal of Social
Psychiatry,1985 july.
Integration of psychosocial rehabilitation in
national health care programmes.
Vijay Nagaswamy
Psychosocial Rehabilitation
Journal, 1990, vol.14, no.11.
Interventions with families of people with
schizophrenia; the issues facing a community-based rehabilitation criteria in
India.
Radha Shankar, Sarada Menon.
Psychosocial Rehabilitation Journal,
1991, vol.15, no.1.
Family interventions in schizophrenia through
group sessions, an experimental study
.
N.K. Vishwanath, R. Padmavati.
Indian
journal of Social Psychiatry, 1992, 8(3-4), 35-39.
An attempt at the development of community-based support
system in the urban slums of Madras, India.
R. Thara.
Psychosocial
Rehabilitation Journal, 1992, vol.16, no.1.
Development of a framework of interventions with
families in the management of schizophrenia.
Radha Shankar, Sarada Menon
Psychosocial Rehabilitation Journal, 1993, vol.16, no.3.
Psychosocial rehabilitation : current
trends
M. Sarada Menon
Nimhans journal, vol. 14, no. 4, october 1996.
Admission into a residential facility for
chronic mentally ill
V. Ramalakshmi, R.
Padmavati, et al.
Indian J Social P.
(1998), 14 (1-4), 37-40.
Clozapine-induced agranulocytosis and use of g-csf
T.N. Srinivasan & Kuruvilla
Thomas
Indian j. Psychiatry 1998, 40
(1), 70-72
Clozapine : a commentary
R. Thara
Archives of
Indian Psychiatry, 1999, 5(1) (29-34)
Adverse events after zolpidem intake
R. Thara
Indian Journal of
Psychiatry, 2001, 43 (1), 85-86
Management of medication non-compliance in
schizophrenia by the families in India.
Srinivasan T.N.,& Thara
R.
Schizophrenia Bulletin 2002.28(3), 531-535.
Family education in schizophrenia - a comparison
of two approaches
.
Thara R, Padmavati R,
Lakshmi A, Karpagavalli P
Indian J of
Psychiatry. Vol. 47, no.4, 218-222, 2005 ( Oct-Dec)
Psychosocial interventions after tsunami in Tamil Nadu,
India.
Vijaykumar L, Thara R,
John S & Chellappa S
International
Review of Psychiatry. 2006 Jun;18(3):225-31.
What is the best approach to treating
schizophrenia in developing countries?
Vikram Patel, Saeed
Farooq, R.Thara.
Plos Medicine, Vol.4, issue 6, 2007
Correlation between disability and burden of the
families of functional psychoses in fishermen slums
.
S. Gomathy, R.
Sathianathan, S. Rajkumar et al
Indian journal of Social Psychiatry
1986,2(4), 382-394.
Schedule for assessment of psychiatric
disability modification of the DAS-II
R.Thara, S. Rajkumar, V. Valecha
Indian
journal of Psychiatry january 1988. 30(1), pp.47-53.
Coping with symptoms of relapse in
schizophrenia
Shuba Kumar, R. Thara, S.
Rajkumar
European Archives of Psychiatry and
Neurological Science, 1989; 213-215
Drug compliance and disability in
schizophrenia
R.Thara, S. Rajkumar
Indian journal of Psychological Medicine, jan.1991,
14(1) pp 81-84.
A new perspective of disability: chronic mental
illness
R. Thara, Sarada Menon
Indian journal of Disability and
Rehabilitation, jan-june 1991.
Coping behaviour in schizophrenia
Shuba Kumar, Thara R
Indian journal of Social Psychiatry, 1992, 8, (1-2) 17-23.
Won the G.C Boral award during the
8th annual conference of the Indian Association for Social Psychiatry,
Madras
.
Nature and course of disability in
schizophrenia
R. Thara, S. Rajkumar
Indian journal of Psychiatry, 1993, 35(1), 33-35.
Family burden in chronic mental illness
R. Thara
World Health, March - april 1994
Coping with symptoms of schizophrenia: a
cross-cultural comparision
Shuba Kumar, R.
Thara, Fred Rist
Indian journal of Social
Psychiatry, (1994), 10 (1-4) 4-10
SCARF Social Functioning Index
R. Padmavati, R. Thara, Latha Srinivasan, Shuba
Kumar.
Indian journal of Psychiatry, 1995,
37(4), 161-164.
Management of Social Disabilities in
Schizophrenia
R. Thara & Latha
Srinivasan
Indian j. Psychiatry 1998, 40 (4),
331-337
Issues related to disability in India: a focus
group study
Hemraj Pal, R. Thara, T.N. Srinivasan et al
The National
Medical journal of India 2000, vol. 13, no. 5
Schizophrenia - disabling today’s youth
Thara R.
Harvard health policy review, vol.6 , no 2, fall 2005
Cost of illness in schizophrenia : perspective
from an NGO
Thara R.
Indian J of
Psychiatry. Vol. 47, no.4, 212-215, 2005 ( Oct-Dec).
Children of schizophrenics- a high risk
group
M. Sarada Menon, Valsa Koshy
The Andhra Pradesh journal of Psychiatry, 1988,
1(1), pp, 21-28.
Delusion of pregnancy in schizophrenia
Radha Shankar
British journal of Psychiatry, 1991,159, 285-286
Gender differences in schizophrenia: results of
a follow-up study from India.
R. Thara, S.
Rajkumar
Schizophrenia
Research, 1992, 7, 65-70.
Gender differences in disability: a comparison
of married patients with schizophrenia
.
Radha Shankar, Shantha Kamath, Albert
Joseph.
Schizophrenia Research 16 (1995) 17-23.
Gender differences in symptoms and course of
schizophrenia
R. Thara, A. Albert
Joseph .
Indian journal of Psychiatry,
1995, 37 (3), 124-128.
Fertility and schizophrenia
T.N. Srinivasan, R. Padmavati
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 1997,96, 260-264.
Marriage and gender in schizophrenia
R. Thara , T.N. Srinivasan
Indian journal of Psychiatry, 1997,39(1), 64-69
Women's Mental Health : A Public Health
Concern
Thara R. & Patel V.
Regional Health Forum. WHO SEARO. Vol.5,
No.1, 24-34, 2001
Women with schizophrenia and broken
marriages–doubly disadvantaged? Part I: Patient
perspective.
Thara R, Shantha Kamath,
Shuba Kumar.
The International Journal of Social
Psychiatry: 2003 Vol.49 (3), 225-232.
Women with schizophrenia and broken marriages – doubly disadvantaged? Part II:
Family perspective.
Thara R, Shantha Kamath, Shuba
Kumar.
International Journal of Social Psychiatry: 2003
Vol.49 (3), 233-240
Beliefs about mental illness: a study of a rural
south Indian community
.
R. Thara, Anwar
Islam, R. Padmavati
International
journal of mental health, vol.27, no3, fall 1998. 70-84
How stigmatising is schizophrenia in
India?
R. Thara, T.N. Srinivasan.
International journal of Social Psychiatry (2000)
vol. 46 no. 2, 135-141.
Beliefs about causation of schizophrenia: Do
Indian families believe in supernatural causes?
T.N. Srinivasan , R. Thara
Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology, 2001, 36, 134-140
Commentary by R.Thara on “People with
schizophrenia believe that they are stigmatised at work and in the
community"
by Schulz & Angermeyer
Evidence Based Mental Health Online 2003:
6:96
In quest of cross-roads in intercultural studies
of schizophrenia
.
Ellen Corin, Thara R,
Padmavati R.
L’Evolution Psychiatrique
Jan/March 2004, Vol. 69, 93-112.
A qualitative study of religious practices by
chronic mentally ill and their caregivers in South India.
Padmavati R, Thara R, Corin
E.
Inter.J of Social Psychiatry 2005, June 51, (2), 139-49
Shadows of culture in psychosis in south India: A
methodological exploration and illustration.
Ellen Corin, Thara R & Padmavati R
International Review of
Psychiatry, april 2005, 17(2), 75-81.
Scarf Beatitudes mental health
programme
R. Padmavati & Benjamin
Franklin.
Health administrator, 1995 vol 6, nos
1&2, pp 86-91
A community mental health programme in rural Tamilnadu.
R. Thara, R.
Padmavati.
Asia pacific Disability Rehabilitation
journal, vol.10, no.1, 1999.
Mental Health Policies in Developing Countries :
A radical rethink.
Patel V & Thara
R.
Regional Health Forum WHO
SEARO.Vol. 5, No 1, 3-5. 2001.
Mental health promotion in India: a critical
lacuna
Thara R
Health Promotion: Global Perspectives Vol 4, 4,
Oct/Nov 2001.
Community mental health care in India : Role of
a non-governmental organization
Thara, R
& Padmavati R.
Eastern J of Psychiatry, Vol.10, No1 & 2,
74-76.2007.
General
Schizophrenia and leprosy the potential for multiple
interactions. A case, report.
Radha Shankar, Shantha Kamath
Schizophrenia Research, 1992, 7, 91-92.
A study of postal enquires following media based
mental health education programmes
.
R.
Padmavati, A. Amalraj.
Indian journal of
Behavioural Sciences, 1994, 4(2), 114-117.
Study of postal enquiries made to a voluntary
organisation
R. Padmavati, Louis Joseph
& Albert Joseph .
Indian
journal of Behavioural Sciences, 1996, 6(2), 1997, 7(1),22-25.
Stress, burden and satisfaction among mental
health professio
nals
R. Thara
Indian J.Social Psychiatry (1997), 13 (3-4),
114-118.
Research in India: success through
collaboration
R. Thara, R.G.
McCreadie
Advances in Psychiatric treatment (1999), vol. 5, pp
221-224.
Instrument to assess burden on caregivers of
chronic mentally ill
R. Thara, R.
Padmavati, Shuba Kumar & Latha Srinivasan
Indian j. Psychiatry 1998, 40 (1), 21-29
Heat stroke and schizophrenia
R. Thara
Letters
to the editor, Indian J of Psychiatry 1999.
How do people react to a NGO website?
R. Thara
Letters to the editor, Indian J of Psychiatry 2000, vol.42,
no.2, 216-217.
Psychological aspects of infertility
R. Thara, V. Ramachandran, et al
Indian journal of Psychiatry, october 1986, 28(4), pp.
329-334.
Smoking in schizophrenia – all is not
biological
Srinivasan TN & Thara
R
Schizophrenia Research 56, 67-74,
2002.
Tumor necrosis factor haplotype analysis amongst
schizophrenia probands from four distinct populations in the Asia-Pacific
region.
Handoko HY, Nancarrow DJ, Hayward
NK, Ohaeri JU, Aghanwa H, McGrath JJ, Levinson DF, Johns C, Walters MK, Nertney
DA, Srinivasan TN, Thara R, Mowry BJ.
American J Medical Genetics. 2003 Aug 15;121B(1):1-6.
Focus on psychiatry in India
R. Thara, R. Padmavati,
and T. N. Srinivasan
British J Psychiatry 2004 184: 366-373
International Conference on Schizophrenia - guest
editorial
R.Thara
International
Review of Psychiatry , vol.17 ( 2,), 73-74. april 2005
Books published by SCARF
Schizophrenia-historical trends
Proceedings of
SCARF-May & Baker symposium on
Historical trends in Schizophrenia 1985,
published 1986
M. Sarada Menon, Gautham
Das
Biology of schizophrenia
Proceedings of SCARF- May
& Baker 1985, published1986
M. Sarada Menon, Vijay Nagaswamy.
The natural history of schizophrenia
Proceedings of
SCARF workshop on Natural History of Schizophrenia, Madras, 1989.
S. Rajkumar, R. Thara,
Vijay Nagaswamy
Pharmacotherapy in schizophrenia
Proceedings of the
SCARF-Rhone Poulenc seminar, 1990, published, 1994.
M. Saradha Menon, Radha
Shankar
Family and schizophrenia-developing strategies
for intervention
Proceedings of the SCARF -Rhone Poulenc seminar, august 1991,
published 1994.
Strategies for professional collaboration to
promote the rights of the mentally ill.
Proceedings of the SCARF-Law Asia seminar held
in may 1992, published 1994.
Depression in schizophrenia
Proceedings of the
SCARF-Rhone Poulenc seminar 1993, published 1995.
Positive and negative symptoms in
schizophrenia
Proceedings of the SCARF-Rhone Poulenc seminar 1994, published 1995
Culture and psychoses
SCARF -Rhone Poulenc seminar
1996.
Women and mental health
# proceedings of both the
seminars, held in 1996 have been published together in 1997.
Disability in Mental Disorders.
Proceedings of the
International Conference held in 1999.
Mental Illness: Treatment Resistance
Proceedings of the annual
SCARF-SYNERGY seminar – a SCARF publication, 2003.
Chapters in Other Publications
Schizophrenia
M. Sarada Menon, T.N. Srinivasan, et al
In "Post Graduate Psychiatry" J.N.Vyas and Niraj Ahuja, . Churchill
Livingstone, 1992.
Family and professionals working together in the
management of schizophrenia
Radha
Shankar, Sarada Menon.
Mental
health in India-issues & concerns (ed) Purnima Mane, Katy y. Gandevia,
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, 1993
Work with families in India.
Radha Shankar
Jossy-bass quarterly source books (ed-Agnes Hatfield Lefley), 1994.
Management of psychosocial problems in a rural
community in India
R. Thara, Anwar Islam and R. Padmavati
Proceedings, vol.2, 3rd
Asia and Pacific conference on the social sciences and medicine,
Edith
Cowan University, western Australia, 1997.
Schizophrenia research
R. Thara
Advances in
schizophrenia research,
published by Selva Shotter co., Ltd., Japan, 1994.
Disability and culture- report from Chennai.
India
R.Thara & T.N.Srinivasan
in Disability and Culture: Universalism and
Culture (2001). Eds: Ustun et al. On behalf of WHO. Hogrefe & Huber,
Seattle.
Living through a staggering world: The play of
signifiers in early psychosis in South India.
Corin, E., Thara, R., & Padmavati,
R.
In J. Jenkins & R. Barett (Eds.), Culture, Subjectivity and
Schizophrenia. NY: 2003 Ruseel Sage Foundation and Cambridge University
Press
Schizophrenia patients who kill
themselves
T.N.Srinivasan &
R.Thara
in Suicide Prevention- meeting the
challenge together (ed) Lakshmi Vijaykumar. Orient Longman, Chennai, 2003.
Management of Schizophrenia – pharmacological
and nob-pharmcological approaches
R.Thara & T.N.Srinivasan
In Mandal MK,
& Nizamie H (eds) Current Developments in Schizophrenia. Allied Publishers.
New Delhi 2004
The Mental Health of Women : Years of neglect and ray of
hope. Mental Health- an Indian Perspective.
R.Thara
( ed) S P Agarwal ,
Ministry of Health, New Delhi, Elsevier, New Delhi 2004
"Meeting the mental health challenges: role of NGO
initiatives"
Thara R ( co-editor)
SAGE publications, New Delhi, 2003.
Recovery from schizophrenia: An international
perspective.
(ed)Kim Hopper, Gylnn Harrison, Aleksandra Janca, Norman
Sartorius. Oxford University Press, 2007.
