New Issue
The January-June 2017, Volume 8 Issue 1 of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS™) is released.
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Bhandari SS, Bhagabati D. Prevalence of spontaneous dyskinesia in first episode, drug naive schizophrenia, and its relation to the positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia. Open J Psychiatry Allied Sci. 2016 Dec 30. [Epub ahead of print] Available from: http://www.ojpas.com/get_file.php?id=31556829&vnr=201007
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Muraleedharan M, Suthar S, Singh B. A case report on very late onset mania. Open J Psychiatry Allied Sci. 2016 Dec 28. [Epub ahead of print] Available from: http://www.ojpas.com/get_file.php?id=31550258&vnr=915906
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Mental illness and family
“A case report of schizophrenia with severe disability: an eclectic family therapy approach” by Dr. Bornali Das and Dr. Shamiul Akhtar Borbora, published advance online in the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS™) is discussed by the Editor-in-Chief, Shyamanta Das, MD in his Mind Matters column of Horizon, the supplement with today’s (Friday 23 December 2016) The Assam Tribune, titled “Mental illness and family“.
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Russell Ravan JP, Thomas N, Paul T, Prasanna S, Thomas N, Ramaswamy D. The endocrine impact of long term risperidone therapy in Asian Indian patients. Open J Psychiatry Allied Sci. 2016 Dec 19. [Epub ahead of print] Available from: http://www.ojpas.com/get_file.php?id=31532398&vnr=751744
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Aggarwal S, Srivastava P. Psychotherapeutic management of hypochondriasis: a case study. Open J Psychiatry Allied Sci. 2016 Dec 13. [Epub ahead of print] Available from: http://www.ojpas.com/get_file.php?id=31516941&vnr=922607
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Deka N, Kumari R. Fluoxetine-induced blurring of vision: a rare ocular side effect. Open J Psychiatry Allied Sci. 2016 Dec 13. [Epub ahead of print] Available from: http://www.ojpas.com/get_file.php?id=31516940&vnr=790145
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Das S, Dutta A. SoMHiL and OJPAS™: “like a rolling stone”. Open J Psychiatry Allied Sci. 2016 Dec 10. [Epub ahead of print] Available from: http://www.ojpas.com/get_file.php?id=31506917&vnr=299385
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Autism and Asia
In the Mind Matters column, titled “Autism and Asia” of this Friday’s (9 December 2016) Horizon, the supplement with The Assam Tribune, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS™), Shyamanta Das wrote about the Guest Editorial, “About some difficulties in the epidemiological studies of autism” by Leslie Marneau, published advance online in the OJPAS™.
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Skill training for adolescent girls
“Women hold up half the sky” and much more was what Dr. Mythili Hazarika, the Deputy Editor of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS™) highlighted in her panel discussion at the National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development (NIPCCD), Guwahati. She was invited as a panelist in a workshop on skill training on ‘Life Skill Education for Adolescent Girls for District Level Officials of ICDS and NHM’ on 8 December, 2016. The programme was attended by 40 district level officials of both ICDS (implementing the Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for empowerment of adolescent girls – SABLA) and NHM (district programme managers of RKSK/ WIFS/ ARSH). Participating states were Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Odisha, West Bengal, Manipur, Meghalaya, and Mizoram. Dr. Mythili had highlighted on four critical issues of adolescent girls, i.e. sexual and reproductive health, including gender-based violence, malnutrition and anaemia, mental health and substance misuse, and unintentional injuries and other forms of violence.
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