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.

“Reflections on and discussions about ‘Luminous Life: A New Model of Humanistic Psychotherapy’” by Mythili Hazarika and Partha Choudhury is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

The Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) is indexed in the Index Copernicus International (ICI) Journal Master List 2017 and the Index Copernicus Value (ICV) 2017 is 94.82.

“Assessment of quality of life in patients with alcohol dependence syndrome” by Gopal Das Mohan Das Chikkerahally is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).