Shyamanta Das, MD, as a member of the Global Clinical Practice Network (GCPN), participated in the Internet-Based Field Study for ICD-11 Mental and Behavioural Disorders: Disruptive Behavior and Dissocial Disorders, conducted by the World Health Organization: Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse.

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Shyamanta Das, MD, Editor of LAMIC Psychiatry spoke on “Alcohol & Stress” in the NORTH EAST FRONTIER CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION (CME) PROGRAMME 2016 on the Theme “Awareness and Healthy Living—Makes a Healthy Force” organized by 33rd Bn, Indo-Tibet Border Police (ITBP) Force under the aegis of North-East Frontier Headquarter on 18th of January 2017 at Conference Hall, Transit Camp ITBP, Jalukbari, Guwahati, Assam. Other speakers include Dr NK Das, MCh (Neurosurgery), GNRC Hospital, Guwahati, Dr Pranab Deka, DM (Cardiology), Narayana Super Specialty Hospital, Guwahati, and Dr DJ Borah, NACO, Guwahati.

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Print copy of the new issue of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS™) is inaugurated by Sugandha Kashyap¹ in presence of Ranjit Baruah².

¹BSc (Psychology Honours) from Calcutta University, Kolkata, worked as Research Assistant in the Department of Psychiatry, Gauahti Medical College Hospital, Guwahati, and pursuing Diploma in Psychological Counselling from Indian Institute of Counselling, New Delhi

²Proprietor, Academy Publisher, publisher of the OJPAS™

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“Women hold up half the sky” and much more was what Dr. Mythili Hazarika, the Deputy Editor of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS™) highlighted in her panel discussion at the National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development (NIPCCD), Guwahati. She was invited as a panelist in a workshop on skill training on ‘Life Skill Education for Adolescent Girls for District Level Officials of ICDS and NHM’ on 8 December, 2016. The programme was attended by 40 district level officials of both ICDS (implementing the Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for empowerment of adolescent girls – SABLA) and NHM (district programme managers of RKSK/ WIFS/ ARSH). Participating states were Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Odisha, West Bengal, Manipur, Meghalaya, and Mizoram. Dr. Mythili had highlighted on four critical issues of adolescent girls, i.e. sexual and reproductive health, including gender-based violence, malnutrition and anaemia, mental health and substance misuse, and unintentional injuries and other forms of violence.

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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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Deputy Editor of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS™), Mythili Hazarika was invited to be the Chief Guest in the Annual Sports Day in Royal Global School on 19 November, 2016. Her speech had enlightened the audience on the essentials of sports in a child’s life not only as a regular exercise but to experience the communal feeling of being in a team, like learning to trust and depend on others, to accept hope, to give hope, to work together towards a common goal. And in addition to commitment to a team and doing something which is fun, sports participation have also found to reduce the risk of various mental illnesses in children like anxiety, emotional and behavioural problems and build resilience in children by building up their tolerance to frustration.

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Mythili Hazarika, Deputy Editor of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS™) was invited to be a panelist in the National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development (NIPCCD) for a programme on “Skill training on guidance and counselling for teachers of government schools of greater Guwahati, Assam” on 18 November, 2016 in its premises at Jawahar Nagar, Guwahati. The training was attended by more than 40 senior teachers of Rashtriya Madhyamik Siksha Abhijan (RMSA) of greater Guwahati. Her emphasis on tools to detect learning problems in Assamese medium schools which her team is working on was well received and the teachers had expressed their solidarity and support if required.

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