Media, earthquake, and stress

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Media exposure to earthquake-related content in its aftermath as a risk factor for acute stress disorder” by Harshavardhan Sampath, Geeta Soohinda, Arunima Sharma, and Sanjiba Dutta is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

Chief Guest

In the Youth Fest of St. Mary’s School, Guwahati, the President of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL), Mythili Hazarika was invited as the Chief Guest and to talk about her own ‘Success Story’.

Say NO to tobacco

“Say NO to tobacco” was the slogan of Mythili Hazarika, the President of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL) as a guest speaker to the social welfare department officials and service providers organised by the District Tobacco Control Board of Kamrup District, Assam at the Bishnu Nirmala Bhawan, Guwahati.

Gender issues

Mythili Hazarika, the President of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL), in her article, titled “Gender issues” in today’s The Assam Tribune wrote about the successful transformation from ‘she’ to ‘he’ of an individual from the state of Assam following sex reassignment surgery, as well as the legal and social scenario aftermath.

Parenting

Being a parent is one of the best experiences of an individual’s life and Mythili Hazarika, the President of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL) spoke on her favourite subject, i.e. ‘parenting’ as the Chief Guest at Basil Wood pre-primary school in Guwahati run by ISKCON, the International Society for Krsn Consciousness.

Hardiness and CD4+

Titled “Hardiness and CD4+”, in this fortnight’s Mind Matters column of Horizon, the Friday supplement with The Assam Tribune, Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) wrote about the original research paper, “Effect of hardiness on CD4+ count among injection drug users” by Deepak Pandey that is published in the current issue (January-June 2018, Volume 9 Issue 1) of OJPAS®.

ANCIPS 2018

Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), Shyamanta Das chaired a session and presented a symposium in the 70th Annual National Conference of the Indian Psychiatric Society (ANCIPS 2018) held at the Central Institute of Psychiatry (CIP), Ranchi from 5 to 8 February.

With Bhavesh M Lakdavala, Shyamanta chaired the Free Paper Session 2 at Hall B from 0800 to 0900 hours on 6 February. With Simanta Talukdar, Shyamanta presented the symposium, “Transiliences in psychiatry: from phrenology to brainology” at Hall F from 0900 to 1000 hours on 8 February.