The poster, titled “An exploratory study from eastern India on neurological soft signs and spontaneous movement disorders in schizophrenia spectrum disorders”, presented by Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), in the eighth edition of the International Conference on Schizophrenia (IConS VIIII) of the Schizophrenia Research Foundation (SCARF) 2018 at Hyatt Regency, Chennai, and co-authored by Samrat Singh Bhandari, Simanta Talukdar, Arunima Dutta, Nabanita Barman, and Dipesh Bhagabati, is published in the Conference Abstracts (Das S, Bhandari SS, Talukdar S, Dutta A, Barman N, Bhagabati D. An exploratory study from eastern India on neurological soft signs and spontaneous movement disorders in schizophrenia spectrum disorders. In: Conference abstracts of IConS VIII. Chennai: SCARF; 2018.).

In this fortnight’s Mind Matters column, titled “Mass psychogenic illness” of Horizon, the supplement with The Assam Tribune, Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) discusses the research article, “Mass psychogenic illness among school children: a descriptive study of demographic and clinical variables” by Prosenjit Ghosh, that is published in the current issue (July-December 2018, Volume 9 Issue 2) of OJPAS®.

The World Health Organization Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse recognises that Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) has participated in the Internet-Based Field Study for ICD-11 Mental and Behavioural Disorders: Study on Symptom Patterns in Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorder.

“Power of saying “pause” to life” by Bornali Das and “Present day adolescents: why they are, the way they are” by Shailendra Kumar Talukdar and Rupa Gohain are the new Advance Online Publications of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

The Organising Committee of the 21st Midterm CME of the Indian Psychiatric Society (IPS), East Zone and the National CME, Addiction Psychiatry Subspecialty Section, IPS, the Department of Psychiatry, Assam Medical College Hospital, Dibrugarh and the psychiatrists of Dibrugarh published the “Psychiatry Update” (ISBN: 978-93-5311-908-9), edited by Sabita Dihingia, Dhrubajyoti Bhuyan, and Budhiswatya Shankar Das. It contains the chapter, “Transilience in psychiatry”, written by Shyamanta Das, Simanta Talukdar, and Mythili Hazarika (Das S, Talukdar S, Hazarika M. Transilience in psychiatry. In: Dihingia S, Bhuyan, D, Das BS, editors. Psychaitry update. Dibrugarh: The Organising Committee of the 21st Midterm CME of the Indian Psychiatric Society (IPS), East Zone and the National CME, Addiction Psychiatry Subspecialty Section, IPS; 2018:187-206.). Shyamanta Das is the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®). Mythili Hazarika is the President of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL).