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Depression and WHO

Titled, “Depression and WHO”, this fortnight’s Mind Matters column of Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) in Horizon, the Friday supplement with The Assam Tribune discusses the review article, “WHO campaign to fight depression: an urgent public health agenda” by Sohini Banerjee and Arabinda N Chowdhury, and published in the current issue (July-December 2018, Volume 9 Issue 2) of OJPAS®.

Current conversation

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Samrat Singh Bhandari, the Assistant Editor of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) in conversation with Prof. Prathap Tharyan over the current issue (July-December 2018, Volume 9 Issue 2) of OJPAS®.

Cochrane training

 

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The Assistant Editor of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), Samrat Singh Bhandari is undergoing three days of training in Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis in Gangtok.

Witch hunting and mental health

The Mind Matters column of Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) in Horizon, the supplement with The Assam Tribune, titled “Witch hunting and mental health” highlights the editorial, “Witch hunting in Jharkhand: does mental health has any business on it?” by Kamlesh Kumar Sahu from the current issue (July-December 2018, Volume 9 Issue 2) of OJPAS®.

Personality, anxiety, and alcohol

This fortnight’s Mind Matters column of the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), Shyamanta Das in Horizon, the Friday supplement with The Assam Tribune, titled “Personality, anxiety, and alcohol” discusses the research article, “Personality profile and level of anxiety in patients with alcohol dependence syndrome: a comparative study” by Vikas, Lipika Malik, and Krishan Kumar, and published in the current issue (July-December 2018, Volume 9 Issue 2) of OJPAS®.

Brain and skin

Titled “Brain and skin”, this fortnight’s Mind Matters column of the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), Shyamanta Das in the Horizon, the supplement with The Assam Tribune discusses the original research paper, “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, published in the current issue (July-December 2018, Volume 9 Issue 2) of OJPAs®.

Media exposure and PTSD

This fortnight’s Mind Matters column in Horizon, the Friday supplement with The Assam Tribune, of Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), titled “Media exposure and PTSD” covers the original research paper, “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, and published in the current issue (July-December 2018, Volume 9 Issue 2) of OJPAS®.

Substitute addictions

Titled, “Substitute addictions”, in this fortnight’s Mind Matters column of 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 case study, “Pornography as a replacement for substance use: an emerging approach to understand addiction mechanism” by Ashwini Tadpatrikar and Manoj Kumar Sharma, and published in the current issue (July-December 2018, Volume 9 Issue 2) of OJPAS®.

Freud and Psychiatry

“Freud and Psychiatry: Abstract and Concretisation” by Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) is published in Jyotirgamaya: A commemorative Souvenir on the occasion of Diamond Jubilee Celebrations of Arya Vidyapeeth College, Guwahati-16.

Parenting stress

In the Mind Matters column of this fortnight, “Parenting stress” of Horizon, the Friday supplement with The Assam Tribune, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), Shyamanta Das wrote about the Research Article, titled “Parenting stress among mentally retarded children with normal control” by Nishant Kumar, Lokesh Kumar Ranjan, Rishi Panday, and Manisha Kiran, and published in the current issue (July-December 2018, Volume 9 Issue 2) of OJPAS®.