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: Received: 31 May 2024 / Approved: 31 May 2024 / Online: 31 May 2024 (15:31:32 CEST)
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Dubey, S.; Das, S.; Ghosh, R.; Dubey, M.; Pandit, A. Neurological and Psychiatric Illness amongst Beggars: A Critical Appraisal of Indian Scienario. Preprints2024, 2024052169. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202405.2169.v1
Dubey, S.; Das, S.; Ghosh, R.; Dubey, M.; Pandit, A. Neurological and Psychiatric Illness amongst Beggars: A Critical Appraisal of Indian Scienario. Preprints 2024, 2024052169. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202405.2169.v1
Dubey, S.; Das, S.; Ghosh, R.; Dubey, M.; Pandit, A. Neurological and Psychiatric Illness amongst Beggars: A Critical Appraisal of Indian Scienario. Preprints2024, 2024052169. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202405.2169.v1
APA Style
Dubey, S., Das, S., Ghosh, R., Dubey, M., & Pandit, A. (2024). Neurological and Psychiatric Illness amongst Beggars: A Critical Appraisal of Indian Scienario. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202405.2169.v1
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Dubey, S., Mahua Dubey and Alak Pandit. 2024 "Neurological and Psychiatric Illness amongst Beggars: A Critical Appraisal of Indian Scienario" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202405.2169.v1
Abstract
Poverty has long been associated intricately with neurological disorders. Majority of the previous studies designed to describe the effects of poverty on neurological ailments have mostly linked the association of hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy and nutritional deficiency disorders with poverty. Authors herein try to delve deeper into this issue. The association of begging with neuropsychiatric disorders is robust. The burden of probable autosomal dominant neurological ailments is very common among beggars; followed by neurological disorders with social stigma like abnormal movements, facial dysmorphism and gait unsteadiness. Dearth of support from family members in autosomal dominant neurological disorders (as family members are likely to be suffering from similar neurodegenerative disorder ) and poor perception about neurological diseases, misconceptions, myths and low educational attainment at large in the society can be implicated as the often overlooked but important factors underneath this association of begging and neurological disorders.
Keywords
Beggar; Neurological and psychiatric disease; social perspective; India
Subject
Medicine and Pharmacology, Neuroscience and Neurology
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