“Psychosomatic interface: psychological distress and perceived stress in psoriasis patients in a tertiary care hospital in South India” by Keya Das and TS Sathayanarayana Rao is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).
Titled, “Psychiatric inpatients”, this fortnight’s Mind Matters column of Shyamanta Das, Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) in Horizon, the supplement with The Assam Tribune, highlights the Original Research Paper, “Predominant diagnoses, gender, and admission duration in an adult psychiatric inpatient hospital in United Kingdom” by Carlo Lazzari, Ahmed Shoka, Basavaraja Papanna, and Kapil Kulkarni, and published advance online in the Forthcoming Issue of OJPAS®.
Editorial Board Members of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) Anweshak Das, Shyamanta Das, Russell Franco D’Souza, and Simanta Talukdar meet during the 18th Annual National Conference of Indian Association of Private Psychiatry (ANCIAPP 2017) at Hotel Crowne Plaza, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
Simanta Talukdar and Shyamanta Das, Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) presented a symposium, titled “Transiliences in psychiatry: past, passing, and to come”, chaired by SC Malik and Arabinda Brahma in the 18th Annual National Conference of Indian Association of Private Psychiatry (ANCIAPP 2017) at Hotel Crowne Plaza, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
“Personality profile and level of anxiety in patients with alcohol dependence syndrome: a comparative study” by Vikas, Lipika Malik, and Krishan Kumar is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).
A souvenir to commemorate the 24th National Conference of Indian Association for Social Psychiatry (NCIASP 2017), titled “Cultural diversity and mental health”, an International Standard Book Number (ISBN) publication (978-81-935934-0-0), edited by Shyamanta Das and Uddip Talukdar, and published by the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL) is released during the inauguration at Hotel Radisson Blu, Guwahati, Assam, India.
In the background of social psychiatry, the relevance of cultural diversity and mental health is discussed with reference to Assam and Deepali Dutta by Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) in his fortnightly Mind Matters column, titled “Assam’s contribution to social psychiatry” published in Horizon, the supplement with today’s The Assam Tribune.
Index Copernicus Value (ICV) of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) for the year 2016 is 94.56.
“A cross-sectional comparative study of coping distress in medical and non-medical students” by Shiva Kumar BK, Jibin Babu K, and Krishnamurthy CN is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).
“Pituitary adenoma with hypothalamic involvement: a case of ‘atypical’ atypical depression” by Manjunadh Muraleedharan and Rishikesh V Behere is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).
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