Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) and the CME Chairperson is felicitated after the Guest Lecture during the 21st Midterm CME of the Indian Psychiatric Society, East Zone held in the Assam Medical College Hospital, Dibrugarh.
The Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), Shyamanta Das, who is the CME Chairperson as well, delivered the Guest Lecture on “Neuroscience basis of psychodynamics” in the 21st Midterm CME of the Indian Psychiatric Society, East Zone held in the Assam Medical College Hospital, Dibrugarh.
The Organising Committee of the 21st Midterm CME of the Indian Psychiatric Society (IPS), East Zone and the National CME, Addiction Psychiatry Subspecialty Section, IPS, the Department of Psychiatry, Assam Medical College Hospital, Dibrugarh and the psychiatrists of Dibrugarh published the “Psychiatry Update” (ISBN: 978-93-5311-908-9), edited by Sabita Dihingia, Dhrubajyoti Bhuyan, and Budhiswatya Shankar Das. It contains the chapter, “Transilience in psychiatry”, written by Shyamanta Das, Simanta Talukdar, and Mythili Hazarika (Das S, Talukdar S, Hazarika M. Transilience in psychiatry. In: Dihingia S, Bhuyan, D, Das BS, editors. Psychaitry update. Dibrugarh: The Organising Committee of the 21st Midterm CME of the Indian Psychiatric Society (IPS), East Zone and the National CME, Addiction Psychiatry Subspecialty Section, IPS; 2018:187-206.). Shyamanta Das is the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®). Mythili Hazarika is the President of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL).
The Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), Shyamanta Das joins the Indian Journal of Psychiatry as an Assistant Editor.
“A study to assess sexual dysfunction in patients with major depressive disorder” by Riddhish K Maru, Bindoo S Jadhav, Bharat R Shah, and Hemangee S Dhavale is the new Advance Online Publication in the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).
The President of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL), Dr. Mythili Hazarika was the Guest Speaker on “Beyond the burn: psychosocial aspects of burn survivors” in the 5th CME and awareness programme by the Department of Plastic Surgery, Reconstructive Surgery, and Burn Unit of the Gauhati Medical College Hospital (GMCH). Her talk focused on the various psychological issues in different stages of admission, critical care, in hospital recuperation, reintegration, and rehabilitation process. The programme was very well organised with special invitees from the media and various walks of life to create awareness about the prevention and intervention models of burn injury with live demonstration and skits as well as various entertainment programmes by the burn survivors. The burn survivors were felicitated by the distinguished personalities as well.
The current issue (July-December 2018, Volume 9 Issue 2) of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) is in the Index Copernicus.
“A study to assess the quality of life of undergraduate medical students” by Saurav Biswas, Rajshekhar Bipeta, Umashankar Molangur, and Lakshman Rao Reshaboyina is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).
The 14th Annual National Conference of Indian Association for Geriatric Mental Health (GERON 2018) is going to be held at Imphal on 8 and 9 September 2018 with the theme of “Geriatric Care: Need for Integration.”
To commemorate the occasion, a souvenir-cum-scientific update, titled “Geriatric care: need for integration” is planned to be released during the event. The souvenir-cum-scientific update, having RK Lenin Singh and Shyamanta Das as editors, will be a publication with the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) and published by the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL) (https://globalpsychiatry.org) in collaboration with the organising committee.
Articles are invited for the same in the following format and kindly mail the article in word file to somhil@hotmail.com on or before 21 August 2018.
Word limit: 3000
Abstract should count 200-250 words and have an unstructured form.
Keywords should not repeat the title of the article. Ideally, authors should use keywords selected from the MeSH catalogue.[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh]
References should be numbered consecutively in the text and listed at the end according to the following style (the Vancouver style):
Das D, Talukdar U, Chisty SJS, Das MK, Das S. Serum prolactin level in patients taking olanzapine. Open J Psychiatry Allied Sci. 2015;6:50-8.
Hazarika M, Das S, Talukdar U, Kumar A, Datta A. Role of investigations in diagnosis of dementia with special focus on region-specific MRI-based volumetric analysis. Indian J Psychiatry. 2014;56 Suppl S1:6-15.
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
Das S, Talukdar U, Dutta B, editors. Psychodermatoses. Guwahati: Academy Publisher; 2016.
Sharma T, Das S. Magnetism and the mind. In: Dey R, Das S, Talukdar S, De P. editors. Women & mental health: scientific update of 26th Annual State Conference of Indian Psychiatric Society, Assam State Branch. Guwahati: Academy Publisher; 2016:159-64.
“Anger expression as a predictor of mental health among school students of Kashmir valley” by Mudassir Hassan, Waheeda Khan, and Bisma Bhat is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).
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