New issue

The January-June 2018, Volume 9 Issue 1 of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) is released.

Sexual orientation and parental response

“Disclosure of sexual orientation: case series depicting parental response” by Budhiswatya Shankar Das is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

Suicide in force following stress

Shyamanta Das, Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) delivered a talk on “Suicide in force following stress” at the North East Frontier CME-2017 of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) Force held in the ITBP Transit Camp, Guwahati.

SAARC symposium

Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), Shyamanta Das and Simanta Talukdar presented a symposium, titled “Global psychiatry: a LAMIC perspective” at the 10th SAARC International Psychiatric Conference 2017 in Kolkata.

Prodrome and temperament

In this fortnight’s Mind Matters column of Horizon, the supplement with The Assam Tribune, titled “Prodrome and temperament”, Shyamanta Das, Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) discussed the original research paper, titled “Prodromal symptoms and temperamental characteristics in first episode psychotic mania: re-looking the cynosure” by Sandeep Motichand, Daya Ram, Sujit Sarkhel, Varun Shantilal Mehta, and Samir Kumar Praharaj, and published in the Forthcoming Issue of OJPAS®.

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

“Prevalence of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder among primary school children in Cachar, Assam, North-East India” by Prosenjit Ghosh, Hasina Anjuman Choudhury, and Robin Victor is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

Distress and stress in psoriasis

“Psychosomatic interface: psychological distress and perceived stress in psoriasis patients in a tertiary care hospital in South India” by Keya Das and TS Sathayanarayana Rao is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

Psychiatric inpatients

Titled, “Psychiatric inpatients”, this fortnight’s Mind Matters column of Shyamanta Das, Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) in Horizon, the supplement with The Assam Tribune, highlights the Original Research Paper, “Predominant diagnoses, gender, and admission duration in an adult psychiatric inpatient hospital in United Kingdom” by Carlo Lazzari, Ahmed Shoka, Basavaraja Papanna, and Kapil Kulkarni, and published advance online in the Forthcoming Issue of OJPAS®.