Mythili Hazarika, the President of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL), in her article, titled “Gender issues” in today’s The Assam Tribune wrote about the successful transformation from ‘she’ to ‘he’ of an individual from the state of Assam following sex reassignment surgery, as well as the legal and social scenario aftermath.
Being a parent is one of the best experiences of an individual’s life and Mythili Hazarika, the President of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL) spoke on her favourite subject, i.e. ‘parenting’ as the Chief Guest at Basil Wood pre-primary school in Guwahati run by ISKCON, the International Society for Krsn Consciousness.
The Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) is in the Open Science Directory.
Titled “Hardiness and CD4+”, in this fortnight’s Mind Matters column of Horizon, the Friday supplement with The Assam Tribune, Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) wrote about the original research paper, “Effect of hardiness on CD4+ count among injection drug users” by Deepak Pandey that is published in the current issue (January-June 2018, Volume 9 Issue 1) of OJPAS®.
Shyamanta Das, Editor-in-Chief of Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) and Jayanta Dutta were the resource persons, assisted by Nimisha Bora in “One Day Doctors’ Training Programme” under District Mental Health Programme, Morigaon held in Morigaon Civil Hospital.
Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), Shyamanta Das chaired a session and presented a symposium in the 70th Annual National Conference of the Indian Psychiatric Society (ANCIPS 2018) held at the Central Institute of Psychiatry (CIP), Ranchi from 5 to 8 February.
With Bhavesh M Lakdavala, Shyamanta chaired the Free Paper Session 2 at Hall B from 0800 to 0900 hours on 6 February. With Simanta Talukdar, Shyamanta presented the symposium, “Transiliences in psychiatry: from phrenology to brainology” at Hall F from 0900 to 1000 hours on 8 February.
“A study of high risk behaviour among LGBT people of Manipur” by Niranjan Hebbar YR and Rajkumar Lenin Singh is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).
““Chotikatwa”, a new culture-bound dissociative syndrome from Northern India: a case series-based report” by Santosh Kumar is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).
In today’s Mind Matters, the fortnightly column of Shyamanta Das, Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) in Horizon, the supplement with The Assam Tribune, the subject presented is “Depression and alcohol” that discusses the research article, “Depression among alcohol dependent patients: a cross-sectional study” by Christy Abraham, Anithakumari Ayirolimeethal, and Biju George, and published in the current issue (January-June 2018, Volume 9 Issue 1) of OJPAS®.
“An overview of obsessive compulsive disorder and suicidal behaviour” by Hemendra Singh, Santhoshi Kashyap, and Archadhaa Sivakanthan is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).
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