Delhi Public Library acknowledges the receipt of the following books published by the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL):

1. Cultural diversity and mental health (https://globalpsychiatry.org/2017/11/17/cultural-diversity-and-mental-health/)
2. Euphoria (https://globalpsychiatry.org/2018/01/06/euphoria/)
3. Geriatric care: need for integration (https://globalpsychiatry.org/2018/09/08/geriatric-care/)

Cultural diversity and mental health (ISBN: 978-81-935934-0-0) was edited by Shyamanta Das and Uddip Talukdar.

Euphoria (ISBN: 978-81-935934-1-7) was edited by Shyamanta Das, Athokpam Ranita Devi, and Udayan Majumder.

Geriatric care: need for integration” (ISBN: 978-81-935934-2-4) was edited by RK Lenin Singh and Shyamanta Das.

Shyamanta Das is the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

“Quality of life and associated variables of life-sentenced inmates in Jos maximum security prison” by Aishatu Yusha’u Armiya’u, Tajudeen Abiola, Lubuola Issa Bamidele, Charles Nnameka Nwoga, and Francis John Davou is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

“Policy of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) related to plagiarism” by Samrat Singh Bhandari and Shyamanta Das 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 is welcomed by Samrat Singh Bhandari, the Assistant Editor of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) in Gangtok.

“Mood, motor, and speech abnormalities in schizophrenia, mania, and other psychotic disorders: a comparative analysis” by Dhrubajyoti Bhuyan, Pranit Kumar Chaudhury, and Hiranya Saikia is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

Titled, “Depression and WHO”, this fortnight’s Mind Matters column of Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) in Horizon, the Friday supplement with The Assam Tribune discusses the review article, “WHO campaign to fight depression: an urgent public health agenda” by Sohini Banerjee and Arabinda N Chowdhury, and published in the current issue (July-December 2018, Volume 9 Issue 2) of OJPAS®.

“Menstruation-related psychosis” by Binita Talukdar, Kunal Deb, and Soumik Sengupta is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

Samrat Singh Bhandari and Shyamanta Das, the Assistant Editor and the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) are with Amarjit Sarma and Nicholas Thakuria of 24 Tech Soft in pursuit of upgrading the journal website.

“A cross-sectional study on sociodemographic profile and drug-seeking situations in alcohol-dependent patients” by Arun Kumar Vivekananth, Murali Mohan, and Gopalakrishnan Ganesan is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

Suresh Bada Math, MD, DNB, PGDMLE, PGDHRL, PhD in Law (NLSIU) joins the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) as Ombudsman to enrich the journal’s endeavour by guiding in legal and ethical issues through expertise in the field of forensic psychiatry. Dr. Suresh is Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry; Chief of Tele-Medicine & Community Psychiatry; Consultant, Forensic Psychiatry and OCD, In-charge of Legal Aid Clinic; National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bangalore, India.