In The Assam Tribune, Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) wrote the tribute of Anjana Baruah, the mother of Atanu Baruah, the Convenor of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL).

The 29th Annual Conference of the Indian Psychiatric Society, Assam State Branch (IPS-ASBCon 2019)  will be held on 12-13th October, 2019 at Guwahati.

The event will be eternalised by release of an ISBN publication with the theme- “Bipolar Disorder : Evolving Concepts and Paradigms”.

Guidelines for the Authors –

Previously unpublished work within 3000 words having uniform reference style (as mentioned below) should be sent after plagiarism check as email attachment to somhil@hotmail.com .

Kindly send confirmation along with a short description (50 words) of the chosen topic by 4 August, 2019. The final manuscripts will be expected on/before 16 September, 2019.

Reference Style –

In-text-citations should be as follows:

“… was reported (Sreevani 2015).”

or : “Sreevani (2015) reported …”.

In the case of 2 authors, use the “&” sign: (Kumar & Phookun 2015).

In the case of 3 and more authors, use “et al.”: “(Alam et al. 2015)”.

End of the article citations in alphabetical order should be as follows:

Talukdar S, Das S, Bhandari SS, Talukdar U, Borkataki D. Ten. Open J Psychiatry Allied Sci. 2019;10:97-100.

Sadock BJ, Sadock VA, Ruiz P. Kaplan & Sadock’s synopsis of psychiatry: behavioral sciences/clinical psychiatry. 11th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer; 2015.

Nonacs RM, Cohen LS. Postpartum psychiatric syndromes. In: Sadock BJ, Sadock VA, editors. Kaplan & Sadock’s comprehensive textbook of psychiatry. 7th ed. New York: Lippincott Williams and Wilkinson; 2000. p. 1276-83.

Kumar A, Das S, Hazarika M, Datta S, Talukdar S, Baishy A, et al. Recurrent mania: rare or common. J Depress Anxiety [serial online]. 2016 Mar 14 [cited 2017 Jan 20];S2:011. Available from: https://www.omicsgroup.org/journals/recurrent-mania-rare-or-common-2167-1044-S2-011.pdf

“Intra-psychic disarray of gender identity and sexual orientation: in the process of coming out as transsexual” by Budhiswatya Shankar Das and Soumitra Ghosh is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

“Physical illnesses among psychiatric inpatients in a tertiary care setup” by Bharat Udey and Vijay Niranjan is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).