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Drug reactions
In this fortnight’s column of Mind Matters, titled “Drug reactions”, Shyamanta Das, Editor of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) discusses the Original Research Paper, titled “Adverse drug reactions monitoring of psychotropic drugs: a tertiary care centre study” by Mariya Yacob, Hemendra Singh, Letty Sabu, and Mamatha K, and published advance online in OJPAS®.
Inpatient psychiatry referrals
Vijay Niranjan, Bharat Udey
Open J Psychiatry Allied Sci. 2017 Jun 7. [Epub ahead of print]. Available from: http://www.ojpas.com/get_file.php?id=32029515&vnr=254226

Occupational stress among police
Occupational stress among police personnel in India
G Ragesh, Harish M Tharayil, Meharoof Raj TP, Mariamma Philip, Ameer Hamza
Open J Psychiatry Allied Sci. 2017 Jun 2. [Epub ahead of print]. Available from: http://www.ojpas.com/get_file.php?id=32013901&vnr=399213

Dealing with autism
In today’s (Friday 2 June 2017) Horizon, the supplement with The Assam Tribune, Dr Bornali Das, the Secretary of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL) wrote about autism in the article titled, “Dealing with autism”. Dr Bornali also authored the full length article on autism, titled “Impact of stress, coping, social support, and resilience of families having children with autism: a North East India-based study” published in the Asian Journal of Psychiatry.

President speaks
Dr. Mythili Hazarika, the President of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL) had been invited as a resource person in one of the reputed schools in Guwahati “Army Public School” to deliver a talk to the primary, high school, and higher secondary school teachers on various issues related to students’ emotional, behavioural, and academic issues which are a matter of concern in today’s world. She had administered a scale regarding the teachers’ knowledge, attitude, perception, and belief towards mental illnesses. There were altogether 96 teachers and they were taught various strategies to identify normal “difficult” behaviour, problem behaviour, and pathological behaviour among students. The intervention strategies to deal with depression, anxiety, addiction to social networking, gaming, sleep hygiene, too much socialising, lack of motivation in academics were received very positively. The relationship between teacher-student was focused for the academic success of the students. The teachers’ expressed the great need for understanding a child’s mind from a child’s perspective and reiterated their belief on positive communication. The Principal Mrs. Prabha Dastidar expressed her enthusiasm to apply the skills learnt in the seminar and expressed her appreciation towards the speaker for a comprehensive presentation.
RNI E-Filing
RNI E-Filing for Annual Statement in respect of newspaper entitled OPEN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY & ALLIED SCIENCES for the period ending 31st March 2017 is done.

UGC Approved
The University Grants Commission (UGC)-approved List of Journals includes the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

Morbid jealousy
This Friday’s (26 may 2017) Mind Matters column of Shyamanta Das, Editor of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), titled “Morbid jealousy” in Horizon, the supplement with The Assam Tribune discusses the Original Research Paper, “Phenomenology and predisposing factors of morbid jealousy in a psychiatric outdoor: a cross-sectional, descriptive study” by Satyajeet Kumar Singh, Samrat Singh Bhandari, and Pramod Kumar Singh, and published advance online in OJPAS®.
Mohapaalnaam
Under the Secretary-ship of Dipa Das, the Gopal Krishna Naamghar Unnayan Xamiti organised the 19th annual Mohapaalnaam at its premises situated in Ambari Railway Colony, Guwahati-781001. The Secretary’s speech on the occasion was printed by Academy Publisher.

Involuntary hospitalisation
The Original Research Paper, titled “Predictors of involuntary hospitalisation of patients suffering from schizophrenia” by Ivana Stasevic Karlicic, Milena Stasevic, Igor Grbic, Slobodan Jankovic, Zoran Bukumiric, and Slavica Djukic Dejanovic, and published in the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) as Advance Online Publication is discussed by Shyamanta Das, the Editor of OJPAS® in his Mind Matters column published in today’s Horizon, the supplement with The Assam Tribune, titled “Involuntary hospitalisation“.
