In the fortnightly Mind Matters column in Horizon, the Friday supplement with The Assam Tribune, titled “Platelet and anxiety”, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), Shyamanta Das discussed the original article, “Mean platelet volume in anxiety disorder: a case-control study” by Swapna Bondade, Supriya, Manjula Adinarayan, and Parineetha P Bhat, published in the current issue (July-December 2019, Volume 10 Issue 2) of OJPAS®.