In The Assam Tribune, Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) wrote the tribute of Anjana Baruah, the mother of Atanu Baruah, the Convenor of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL).

The Mind Matters column by the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), titled “Alcohol and Quality of Life” in Horizon, the Friday supplement with The Assam Tribune highlights the original article, “Assessment of quality of life in patients with alcohol dependence syndrome” by Gopal Das Mohan Das Chikkerahally published in the January-June 2019, Volume 10 Issue 1 of OJPAS®.

“Intra-psychic disarray of gender identity and sexual orientation: in the process of coming out as transsexual” by Budhiswatya Shankar Das and Soumitra Ghosh is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

Talking to The Assam Tribune in the context of the need for providing psychological assistance and counselling to the flood-affected people of the state, Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) expressed his views.

Two more articles published in the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) are now in PubMed Central (PMC) and PubMed. They are:

1. “Prevalence of spontaneous dyskinesia in first episode, drug naive schizophrenia, and its relation to the positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia” by Samrat Singh Bhandari and Dipesh Bhagabati
2. “Phenomenology and predisposing factors of morbid jealousy in a psychiatric outdoor: a cross-sectional, descriptive study” by Satyajeet Kumar Singh, Samrat Singh Bhandari, and Pramod Kumar Singh

This takes the total OJPAS® publications in PMC and PubMed to eight.

The Mind Matters column of the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), titled “Mindfulness” in Horizon, the Friday supplement with The Assam Tribune highlights the original article, “Mindfulness and its role in psychological well-being among medical college students” by Harshavardhan Sampath, Abhishek Ghosh Biswas, Geeta Soohinda, and Sanjiba Dutta, and published in the January-June 2019, Volume 10 Issue 1 of OJPAS®.

“Physical illnesses among psychiatric inpatients in a tertiary care setup” by Bharat Udey and Vijay Niranjan is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

“Loneliness, social anxiety, social support, and internet addiction among postgraduate college students” by Abhijeet Singh, CRJ Khess, Mathew KJ, Arif Ali, and Nilesh Maruti Gujar is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

“Study of sociodemographic correlates, anxiety, and depression among opioid dependents admitted in treatment centres in Sikkim, India” by Bishnu Sharma, Samrat Singh Bhandari, Sanjiba Dutta, and Geeta Soohinda, and published in the current issue (July-December 2019, Volume 10 Issue 2) of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) is the sixth OJPAS® article to be included in PubMed (PMID: 31263773) and PubMed Central (PMCID: PMC6602083).

Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) discusses the original article, titled “Study of comorbid psychiatric diagnoses in premature ejaculation and erectile dysfunction” by Ashish Hanmantrao Chepure and Apurva Karmveer Ungratwar, and published in the current issue (January-June 2019, Volume 10 Issue 1) of OJPAS® in the fortnightly Mind Matters column, titled “Sexual dysfunctions” in Horizon, the Friday supplement of The Assam Tribune.