Dr. Mythili Hazarika, the Deputy Editor of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS™) was invited as a guest speaker in the 31st Annual Conference of Assam State Branch, Indian Academy of Pediatric in the Assam Medical College and Hospital, Dibrugarh on 3 December 2016. She spoke on “Toxic stress and resilience among children” from an eco-biopsychological perspective. She highlighted on toxic stress creating negative attitude among the adolescents in academics, relationships, and other domains. She had focused on children and adolescents’ impact of stress from the mother’s womb and beyond which gets manifested in health and mental health problems, including obesity, heart disease, and psychotic disorders.

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In The Ashok, New Delhi, the 22nd World Congress of the World Association of Social Psychiatry (WASP 2016) is going on from 30 November to 4 December. The paper, titled “A different stigma and attitude in child psychiatry” is presented on 2 December by Simanta Talukdar and Samrat Singh Bhandari (Editorial Board Member of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences [OJPAS™]), and co-authored by Shyamanta Das (Editor-in-Chief of OJPAS™), Bornali Das (Member of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC [SoMHiL]), Kakoli Nath (Audiologist and Speech Language Pathologist from Astitva: a multispeciality clinic for holistic intervention), and Marami Baishya.

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The 22nd World Congress of the World Association of Social Psychiatry (WASP 2016) is held in The Ashok, New Delhi from 30 November to 4 December. The poster, titled “Impact of stress, coping, social support, and resilience of families of autism spectrum disorder: a Northeast-based study” is presented on 1 December by Bornali Das (Member of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC [SoMHiL]), Kakoli Nath (Audiologist and Speech Language Pathologist from Astitva: a multispeciality clinic for holistic intervention), and Shyamanta Das (Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences [OJPAS™]).

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Dr Sashibha Barman from the Academia Dysphrenia spoke on ‘Snake bite management at GMCH with emergency care’ in the National Seminar on “Snake Venom Research and Snake Bite Therapy: National and International Perspectives” at the Tezpur University on 23 November 2016.

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