Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) is speaking on ‘The gut microbiome in neurodevelopmental disorders’ in the symposium, titled ‘The secretive whispers between the gut and brain’ along with Bijoy Pratim Chaudhuri and Ish Garg that is chaired by Anish Kumar Dawn and Debanjan Pan during the World Psychiatric Association’s Regional Congress (WPARC) 2023 at ITC Royal Bengal, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.