In today’s Mind Matters column, titled “High risk behaviour and LGBT people” of Horizon, the supplement with The Assam Tribune, Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) discusses the research article, “A study of high-risk behaviour among LGBT people of Manipur” by Niranjan Hebbar YR and Rajkumar Lenin Singh that is published advance online in OJPAS®.

“Pornography as a replacement for substance use: an emerging approach to understand addiction mechanism” by Ashwini Tadpatrikar and Manoj Kumar Sharma is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

“Parenting stress among mentally retarded children with normal control” by Nishant Kumar, Lokesh Kumar Ranjan, Rishi Panday, and Manisha Kiran is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

Dr. Mythili Hazarika, MA, MPhil, PhD, the President of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL) is one of the examiners for the Administration and Scoring Manual of the WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE FOR CHILDREN^® – FOURTH (INDIA EDITION) (WISC^®-IV^INDIA), published by PsychCorp, an imprint of Pearson Clinical Assessment.

“The use of family genogram in psychiatric social work practice” by Gobinda Majhi, Sadananda Reddy, and D Muralidhar is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

Titled “REM sleep disorder”, this fortnight’s Mind Matters column in Horizon (the supplement with The Assam Tribune) of Shyamanta Das (Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences [OJPAS®]) discusses the case report “Idiopathic REM sleep behaviour disorder: a case report” by Niranjan Hebbar YR, Ashutosh Dash, Dhananjay Patro, and Th Bihari Singh, and published in the current issue (January-June 2018, Volume 9 Issue 1) of OJPAS®.

“Witch hunting in Jharkhand: does mental health has any business on it?” by Kamlesh Kumar Sahu is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

In this fortnight’s Mind Matters column of Horizon, the supplement with The Assam Tribune, titled “Night terrors and sleepwalking”, Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) wrote about the case report, “Childhood night terrors and sleepwalking: diagnosis and treatment” by Sachin Ratan Gedam, Pradeep S. Patil, and Imran Ali Shivji, and published in the current issue (January-June 2018, Volume 9 Issue 1) of OJPAS®.

“Media exposure to earthquake-related content in its aftermath as a risk factor for acute stress disorder” by Harshavardhan Sampath, Geeta Soohinda, Arunima Sharma, and Sanjiba Dutta is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

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.