The Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), Shyamanta Das has been selected as the Editor of the Eastern Journal of Psychiatry, the official publication of the East Zone Indian Psychiatric Society.

The Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), Shyamanta Das has participated in the virtual orientation on intensive care unit (ICU) mental health manuals batch 1 – for psychiatrists from 30 August to 22 September 2023. These virtual trainings were organised by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Reaching Impact, Saturation, and Epidemic Control (RISE) in collaboration with Community Psychiatric Services, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS).

Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) was invited as a guest speaker and resource person in the 22nd Post Graduate Continuing Medical Education Programme, Eastern Zone, held at Burdwan, West Bengal and delivered a talk on “How to formulate a management plan”.

Carlos Campos joins as a Member in the Editorial Board of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®). Carlos is currently a Professor at Lusófona University in Portugal as well as in the Polytechnic University of Porto. Campos got a Master’s in Psychiatry and Mental Health, a PhD in Neuroscience, and is currently focusing his work on the role of interoception and social cognition in psychopathology. He has got a strong publication record as a young researcher (over 35 publications; h-index 17 and is currently leading two funded projects by the Portuguese Science Foundation. One can check more about his work here: Carlos Campos (0000-0002-5966-4050) – ORCID

The articles of the January-June 2022, Volume 13 Issue 1 of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) are in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) was invited as speaker in the 16th Midterm Continuing Medical Education (CME) of Indian Psychiatric Society, Assam State Branch (IPSASB) held at Diphu and delivered a talk on “Medically unexplained syndromes”.

The Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), Shyamanta Das participated as faculty in the Mid Annual Conference of All India Association of Advancing Research in Obesity (AIAAROCON 2023) at Guwahati, Assam and spoke on “Psychiatric disorder in obesity”.

The new issue (January-June 2022, Volume 13 Issue 1) of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) is released by Ranjit Baruah, the proprietor of Academy Publisher.

The January-June 2022, Volume 13 Issue 1 of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) is now in IndianJournals.com.

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.