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Morbid jealousy
Satyajeet Kumar Singh, Samrat Singh Bhandari, Pramod Kumar Singh
Open J Psychiatry Allied Sci. 2017 April 26. [Epub ahead of print]. Available from: http://www.ojpas.com/get_file.php?id=31909229&vnr=751759

Involuntary hospitalisation and schizophrenia
Predictors of involuntary hospitalisation of patients suffering from schizophrenia
Ivana Stasevic Karlicic, Milena Stasevic, Igor Grbic, Slobodan Jankovic, Zoran Bukumiric, Slavica Djukic Dejanovic
Open J Psychiatry Allied Sci. 2017 Apr 26. [Epub ahead of print]. Available from: http://www.ojpas.com/get_file.php?id=31908954&vnr=895409

LAMIC psychiatry
Global psychiatry: a LAMIC perspective
Shyamanta Das, Bornali Das, Mythili Hazarika
Open J Psychiatry Allied Sci. 2017 Apr 20. [Epub ahead of print]. Available from: http://www.ojpas.com/get_file.php?id=31893684&vnr=253504

A North East India-based study on Autism
The final version of the article, titled “Impact of stress, coping, social support, and resilience of families having children with autism: a North East India-based study” with full bibliographic details is now available online, providing free access to the article, and is valid for 50 days, until June 07, 2017. Anyone who clicks on the following link until June 07, 2017, will be taken to the final version of the article on ScienceDirect for free. No sign up or registration is needed – just click and read!
https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1Uv8r6gcL6sDpv

Autism and Northeast India
Astitva, a multispeciality centre for holistic intervention is situated in Guwahati. Among the different services offered, one is management of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). A research work was carried out among the parents of those children attending the centre.
The work was presented as poster during the 22nd World Congress of the World Association of Social Psychiatry (WASP 2016) held in The Ashok, New Delhi from 30 November to 4 December by Bornali Das (Secretary of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC [SoMHiL]), Kakoli Nath (Audiologist and Speech Language Pathologist as well as Founder of Astitva), and Shyamanta Das (Editor of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences [OJPAS®]).
That research is published online on 29 March 2017 in the Asian Journal of Psychiatry (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2017.03.040) as full-length paper, titled “Impact of stress, coping, social support, and resilience of families having children with autism: A North East India-based study” by Shyamanta Das, Bornali Das, Kakoli Nath, Arunima Dutta (Editorial Assistant of OJPAS®), Priyanka Bora, and Mythili Hazarika (President of SoMHiL).
In today’s Horizon, the supplement with The Assam Tribune, Shyamanta Das wrote about the research paper in his fortnightly Mind Matters’ column, titled “Autism and Northeast India”.
WHO Newsletter
The World Health Organization (WHO) released a Newsletter covering the “Depression: Let’s Talk on World Health Day 2017 in Guwahati, Assam” event.

The event in print
The “Depression: Let’s Talk on World Health Day 2017 in Guwahati, Assam” Event is covered in the print media, namely The Assam Tribune titled “Discussion on depression held”. The Editorial of the same day is titled “Mental health”.
Hypochondriasis and psychotherapy
Shyamanta Das, Editor of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) wrote about the case report, titled “Psychotherapeutic management of hypochondriasis: a case study” that is published advance online in OJPAS® in his Mind Matters column, “Hypochondriasis and psychotherapy” of this fortnight’s Horizon, the supplement with The Assam Tribune.
Autism and North East India
Full-length paper, titled “Impact of stress, coping, social support, and resilience of families having children with autism: A North East India-based study” by Shyamanta Das (Editor of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences [OJPAS®]), Bornali Das (Secretary of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC [SoMHiL]), Kakoli Nath (Founder of the Astitva), Arunima Dutta (Editorial Assistant of OJPAS®), Priyanka Bora, and Mythili Hazarika (President of SoMHiL) is published online on 29 March 2017 in the Asian Journal of Psychiatry (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2017.03.040).
Being mindful
Dr Bornali Das, Secretary of the Society for Mental Health in LAMIC (SoMHiL) wrote about “Being mindful” in Horizon, the supplement with today’s The Assam Tribune.
