“Disclosure of sexual orientation: case series depicting parental response” by Budhiswatya Shankar Das 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 “Prodrome and temperament”, Shyamanta Das, Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) discussed the original research paper, titled “Prodromal symptoms and temperamental characteristics in first episode psychotic mania: re-looking the cynosure” by Sandeep Motichand, Daya Ram, Sujit Sarkhel, Varun Shantilal Mehta, and Samir Kumar Praharaj, and published in the Forthcoming Issue of OJPAS®.

“Prevalence of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder among primary school children in Cachar, Assam, North-East India” by Prosenjit Ghosh, Hasina Anjuman Choudhury, and Robin Victor is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

“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®.

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®).

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.

“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®).