Titled “Brain and skin”, this fortnight’s Mind Matters column of the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), Shyamanta Das in the Horizon, the supplement with The Assam Tribune discusses the original research paper, “Psychosomatic interface: psychological distress and perceived stress in psoriasis patients in a tertiary care hospital in South India” by Keya Das and TS Sathayanarayana Rao, published in the current issue (July-December 2018, Volume 9 Issue 2) of OJPAs®.