“A cross-sectional study of attitude towards psychiatry among undergraduate medical students” by Shiva Kumar BK, Neeraj Raj B, and Vinay HR is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

In the third event of the webinar series, ‘Global Psychiatry: A LAMIC Perspective”, Leslie Marneau from France will be speaking on “Impact of COVID-19 on professional continued education and intervention in the field of autism” at 1700 hours on Thursday, 24 September 2020. Pomi Baruah will be delivering the opening remarks in the event to be moderated by Bornali Das, the Secretary of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL). It is an initiative of SoMHiL, as part of MONON: Assam Cares (https://www.ojpas.com/ojpas-2020-07-27-fulltext.html), in collaboration with ECHO India. Leslie is an editorial board member of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®). Join us through: https://spark.echoindia.in/jr/sess_yAt4u2h1YA/

“Post-outbreak psychosocial “needs” of the public in the COVID-19 era” by Antonio Ventriglio, Antonello Bellomo, Shijo John Joseph, and Dinesh Bhugra is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

In the fortnightly Mind Matters column of Horizon, the Friday supplement with The Assam Tribune, titled “Psychosocial problems”, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), Shyamanta Das highlighted the original article, “Reliability and validity of the Screening Tool for Assessment of Psychosocial Problems” by Kamlesh Kumar Sahu, Bir Singh Chavan, Chandra Bala, and Shikha Tyagi, and published in the July-December 2019, Volume 10 Issue 2 of OJPAS®.

“Knowledge of hand cleanliness among medical students and nurses at tertiary healthcare centre: a cross-sectional study” by Bandana Mahanta, DK Das, Pollov Borah, Putul Mahanta, and Malamoni Dutta, is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

Antonio Ventriglio, MD, PhD joins the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) as an editorial board member. Based in Foggia, Italy, Dr. Ventriglio is a Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist at “Riuniti” Hospital in Foggia, Italy as well as Professor of Psychopharmacology and Social Psychiatry at School of Psychiatry in Foggia, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Foggia. He has been Research Fellow at Department of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA; completed two PhD programmes on medical, clinical, and experimental sciences at University of Foggia. He is currently member of Italian Society of Psychiatry, Italian Society for Social Psychiatry, and honorary member of World Psychiatry Association. Dr. Ventriglio is editor for letters for International Journal of Social Psychiatry and is in editorial board of International Review of Psychiatry, Current Drug Research Review, and Frontiers in Psychiatry e Neurosciences. Antonio also is editor of books for the Oxford University Press and Springer Nature.

“Knowledge and attitude towards mental illness of key informants and general population: a comparative study” by Dilip Kumar, Pradeep Kumar, Amool Ranjan Singh, and Samrat Singh Bhandari, and published in the January-June 2012, Volume 3 Issue 1 of Dysphrenia, renamed the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) is in PubMed (PMID: 32905487).

“Knowledge and attitude towards mental illness of key informants and general population: a comparative study” by Dilip Kumar, Pradeep Kumar, Amool Ranjan Singh, and Samrat Singh Bhandari, and published in the January-June 2012, Volume 3 Issue 1 of Dysphrenia, renamed the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) is in PubMed Central (PMCID: PMC7470139).

“Public mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: challenges and game plan” by Bemma Konthoujam is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

The articles of the current issue (July-December 2020, Volume 11 Issue 2) of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) are now available in IndianJournals.com with digital object identifier (DOI).