“A novel approach to address the novel threat” by Mythili Hazarika, Bornali Das, Shyamanta Das, Suresh Bada Math, Samrat Singh Bhandari, Lakshmanan S, Kailash Karthik, Pomi Baruah, Najeeb Hazarika, Hardeep Singh Bambrah, Kanika Suri; the Monon: Assam Cares programme and published in the January-June 2021, Volume 12 Issue 1 of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) is in PubMed Central (PMCID: PMC7755153).

“A novel approach to address the novel threat” by Mythili Hazarika, Bornali Das, Shyamanta Das, Suresh Bada Math, Samrat Singh Bhandari, Lakshmanan S, Kailash Karthik, Pomi Baruah, Najeeb Hazarika, Hardeep Singh Bambrah, Kanika Suri; the Monon: Assam Cares programme and published in the January-June 2021, Volume 12 Issue 1 of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) is in PubMed (PMID: 33364435).

“Iatrogenic skin popper: tramadol dependence in a patient with no previous substance history” by Shubhika Aggarwal, Kunal Kumar, Abhinit Kumar, Shruti Sharma, Nikhil Nayar, and Kapil Upadhyay is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

Titled, “Culture and therapy”, this fortnight’s Mind Matter 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, highlights the case study, “Effect of socio-cultural factors in therapeutic intervention” by Vasundharaa S Nair, Febna Moorkath, and Mysore Narasimha Vranda, and published in the January-June 2020, Volume 11 Issue 1 of OJPAS®.

Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) in the fortnightly Mind Matters column, titled “Parenting, temperament, and childhood anxiety” in Horizon, the Friday supplement with The Assam Tribune, highlights the original article, “Parenting styles, temperament, and anxiety in children: preliminary findings in the Indian population” by Sahithya BR and Vijaya Raman, and published in the January-June 2020, Volume 11 Issue 1 of OJPAS®.

“Economic hardships during pandemics and its impact on mental health: a narrative review with special focus on the COVID-19 pandemic” by Gunaseelan Patchaikannu is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

“Mental health professionals as ‘silent frontline healthcare workers’: perspectives from three South Asian countries” by Sheikh Shoib, Anoop Krishna Gupta, Waleed Ahmad, Shijo John Joseph, and Samrat Singh Bhandari is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

“Pattern of internet use, anxiety, and depression among professional students of Tripura, India: an analysis” by Santanu Ghosh and Anjana Bhattacharjee is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

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 “Physical illnesses in psychiatric patients” discusses the original article, “Physical illnesses among psychiatric inpatients in a tertiary care setup” by Bharat Udey and Vijay Niranjan, published in the January-June 2020, Volume 11 Issue 1 of OJPAS®.

“Assessing burden and its determinants in caregivers of chronic kidney disease patients undergoing haemodialysis” by Shijo John Joseph, Samrat Singh Bhandari, Sanjiba Dutta, Dheeraj Khatri, and Apoorva Upadhyay is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).