Purushottam B. Thapa, MD, MPH

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About

Purushottam B. Thapa, MD, MPH, is affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, Arkansas. Thapa has published research on topics including anxiety, primary care, and psychiatry, with articles addressing social anxiety presenting as eating issues, vitamin D levels and clinical correlates in serious mental illness, and lithium-induced thyroid hormone changes. The author has contributed to Psychiatrist.com from 2014 to 2022 and frequently collaborates with Lakshminarayana Chekuri, Aparna Das, Carolyn L. Turturro, Dinesh Mittal, and Erick Messias.

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Social Anxiety Masquerading as Eating Issues
Case Report

Social Anxiety Masquerading as Eating Issues

April 7, 2022

Patients with deipnophobia feel anxious while dining in public or engaging in dinner conversation. Here, read about a 23-year-old woman who suffered panic attacks when dining with her boyfriend.
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Vitamin D Levels and Sociodemographic and Clinical Correlates in Individuals With Serious Mental Illness Admitted to an Acute Psychiatry Unit

April 30, 2015

Vitamin D and its role in bone health are well known. Recent evidence suggests that vitamin D may also have a plausible role in brain function and mental health....
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Letter to the Editor

Lithium-Induced Transient Euthyroid Hyperthyroxinemia: A Case Report

April 15, 2014

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