The World Health Organization, Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse recognises that Shyamanta Das (the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences [OJPAS®]) has participated in the Internet-Based Field Study for ICD-11 Mental and Behavioural Disorders: Disorders Due to Addictive Behaviours and Impulse Control Disorders.

Founding Editor of Asian Journal of Psychiatry, Matcheri Keshavan from Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA gave useful feedback to the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), Shyamanta Das while receiving the print version of the current issue (July-December 2018, Volume 9 Issue 2) of OJPAS® during the 19th Annual Conference of Indian Association of Private Psychiatry (ANCIAPP 2018) at Taj Krishna, Hyderabad.

“Mindfulness and its role in psychological well-being among medical college students” by Harshavardhan Sampath, Abhishek Ghosh Biswas, Geeta Soohinda, and Sanjiba Dutta is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

“Study of comorbid psychiatric diagnoses in premature ejaculation and erectile dysfunction” by Ashish Hanmantrao Chepure and Apurva Karmveer Ungratwar is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

“Depression, anxiety, and their association with sociodemographic factors in patients undergoing haemodialysis: a cross-sectional study” by Ranjit Kumar Pindikura, Anuhya Guyton Gunturu, and Uday Kumar Kadiveti is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

Titled “Brain and skin”, this fortnight’s Mind Matters column of the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), Shyamanta Das in the Horizon, the supplement with The Assam Tribune discusses the original research paper, “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, published in the current issue (July-December 2018, Volume 9 Issue 2) of OJPAs®.

The current issue (July-December 2018, Volume 9 Issue 2) of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) is in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

The current issue (July-December 2018, Volume 9 Issue 2) of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) is in Research Bible.

The current issue (July-December 2018, Volume 9 Issue 2) of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) is in Google Scholar.

“Self-reported sexual orientation, relationships pattern, social connectedness, disclosure, and self-esteem in Indian men who use online gay dating website” by Geeta Soohinda, Prabhleen Singh Jaggi, Harshavardhan Sampath, and Sanjiba Dutta is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).