Titled “Behavioural addictions- a fad or fact”, the symposium, conceptualised by Prosenjit Ghosh, was presented by Simanta Talukdar and Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) in the 19th Annual Conference of Indian Association of Private Psychiatry (ANCIAPP 2018) at Taj Krishna, Hyderabad.
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: Disorders Due to Addictive Behaviours and Impulse Control Disorders.
Founding Editor of Asian Journal of Psychiatry, Matcheri Keshavan from Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA gave useful feedback to the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), Shyamanta Das while receiving the print version of the current issue (July-December 2018, Volume 9 Issue 2) of OJPAS® during the 19th Annual Conference of Indian Association of Private Psychiatry (ANCIAPP 2018) at Taj Krishna, Hyderabad.
The Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), Shyamanta Das presented the “ABCD model of child psychiatry” in Shark Tank at the 19th Annual Conference of Indian Association of Private Psychiatry (ANCIAPP 2018) at Taj Krishna, Hyderabad.
“Mindfulness and its role in psychological well-being among medical college students” by Harshavardhan Sampath, Abhishek Ghosh Biswas, Geeta Soohinda, and Sanjiba Dutta is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).
“Study of comorbid psychiatric diagnoses in premature ejaculation and erectile dysfunction” by Ashish Hanmantrao Chepure and Apurva Karmveer Ungratwar is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).
Mythili Hazarika, the President of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL), as a panelist with few eminent others on the Children’s Day, shared and discussed various perspectives of child sexual abuse in a public forum among the youth at Cotton University, Guwahati. uTSAH, UNICEF, and NSS unit of Cotton University deserve applause for taking up this always unaddressed issue in the community in a pragmatic manner. The programme ended with a signature campaign and a commitment to do a project for a year by Cotton University.
The memoir to commemorate the Professor Deepali Dutta Memorial Oration, edited by Suresh Chakravarty and Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) and published by the Department of Psychiatry, Gauhati Medical College Hospital (GMCH), Guwahati is released during the oration delivered by Prof. Punyadhar Das on “Existentialism and Logotherapy” at the Academic Hall of GMCH.
“Depression, anxiety, and their association with sociodemographic factors in patients undergoing haemodialysis: a cross-sectional study” by Ranjit Kumar Pindikura, Anuhya Guyton Gunturu, and Uday Kumar Kadiveti is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).
The President of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL), Mythili Hazarika spoke on “Patenting stress: implication and management” in the programme on ‘Parenting and stress management’ at the Academic Hall of Gauhati Medical College Hospital (GMCH), Guwahati, organised by the Lady Doctors’ Association of GMCH, Sanjibani Sangha.
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