In the 28th Annual Conference of Indian Psychiatric Society, Assam State Branch (ASBCON 2018) at the Lokopriya Gopinath Bordoloi Regional Institute of Mental Health (LGBRIMH), Tezpur, Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) co-authored the following paper/ poster presentations: “A comparison on suicidal risk of patients with bipolar versus unipolar depression: the research design and a pilot study” by Porimita Chutia, “A study on seasonal variation and sex specific psychiatric service utilisation in general hospital” by Chayanika Choudhury, “Case report on disorder of sexual differentiation with depression” by Nilofar Rahman (other authors: Mythili Hazarika, the President of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC [SoMHiL] and Utpal Bora), and “Investigating the relationship between Toxoplasma gondii and psychotic disorders with implications toward a brain-based diagnostic system and novel therapeutic approaches: the research design and a pilot study” by Jyotismita Choudhury (other authors: Samrat Singh Bhandari, the Assistant Editor of OJPAS®, Dina Raja, Chimanjita Phukan, and Simanta Talukdar, Member of SoMHiL).

Chayanika Choudhury won the third best paper presentation in Dr. Indreswar Dutta Memorial Award. Jyotismita Choudhury won the best poster presentation.