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®.