Cultural diversity and mental health

NCIASP Souvenir Cover copy

A souvenir to commemorate the 24th National Conference of Indian Association for Social Psychiatry (NCIASP 2017), titled “Cultural diversity and mental health”, an International Standard Book Number (ISBN) publication (978-81-935934-0-0), edited by Shyamanta Das and Uddip Talukdar, and published by the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL) is released during the inauguration at Hotel Radisson Blu, Guwahati, Assam, India.

Assam’s contribution to social psychiatry

In the background of social psychiatry, the relevance of cultural diversity and mental health is discussed with reference to Assam and Deepali Dutta by Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) in his fortnightly Mind Matters column, titled “Assam’s contribution to social psychiatry” published in Horizon, the supplement with today’s The Assam Tribune.

Internet addiction

Shyamanta Das, Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) in his Mind Matters column of this fortnight, titled “Internet addiction” published in the Horizon, the supplement with today’s The Assam Tribune, discusses the original research paper, “A cross-sectional study on assessment of prevalence of Internet addiction and its correlates among professional college students” by Narayan R Mutalik, Tejaswi TP, Shankar Moni, and SB Choudhari, and published advance online in the forthcoming issue of OJPAS®.