The 22nd Annual National Conference of the Indian Association of Private Psychiatry (ANCIAPP 2021) is going to be organised by the IAPP Assam State Branch in Hotel Radisson Blu, Guwahati with the theme of “Newer Approaches and Innovations in Clinical Practice” during 18-21 November 2021.

An eSouvenir will be released to commemorate the event. The Souvenir Committee in chaired by Dr. S. Chakravarty with Dr. Shyamanta Das, Dr. Uddip Talukdar, Dr. Simanta Talukdar, Dr. Vijay Gogoi, and Dr. Dipjyoti Bora as members.

Uniformity of Articles

Scientific article on the theme of newer approaches and innovation in clinical practice as well as on subjects of contemporary relevance with recent developments is welcome. We also welcome essay, prose, poem, drawing, and photograph. The article is preferred to be within 2000 words, prepared in word format (.doc or .docx), and send by 8 November 2021 as email attachment to academypublisher@outlook.com with the Vancouver reference style.

“Entomophagy and coprophagy in alcohol use disorder: a rare psychopathology” by Purushottam Jangid, Aparna Goyal, Anirudh Bhushan, and Sujata Sethi is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

“Our experience with implementation of manual augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) in adult with intellectual disability: a story of success” by Himanshu Verma, Harisha Madishetty, and Gourishanker Patil is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

The Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), Shyamanta Das in this fortnight’s Mind Matters column, titled “Telemental health during the pandemic” in Horizon, the Friday supplement with The Assam Tribune highlights the editorial, ‘Tele-mental health during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic’ by Mythili Hazarika and Suresh Bada Math, and published in the July-December 2020, Volume 11 Issue 2 of OJPAS®.

Titled “Coming out in the open”, 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 highlights the Editorial, “Out of the closet” by Mythili Hazarika, Shyamanta Das, Bornali Das, Milin Dutta, and Samrat Singh Bhandari, and published in the July-December 2020, Volume 11 Issue 2 of OJPAS®.

“Mindfulness-based interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic: a focused review” by Amit Khawas, Ankita Paul, and Satyananda Panda is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

Titled “Depression and HIV/AIDS”, 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, highlights the original article, “Depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation in people living with HIV/AIDS and their caregivers: a comparative study” by Ravinder Kumar Prajapati, Radhey Shyam, and Sushma Rathee, and published in the July-December 2019, Volume 10 Issue 2 of the OJPAS®.

Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) spoke on “Negative syndrome in schizophrenia” in the Indian Association of Private Psychiatry (IAPP) East Zone CME held at Hotel Swissotel, Kolkata.

Das BS, Ghosh S, Kottai SR. Practice of family therapy in a heteronormative society of India from queer theory perspective. Open J Psychiatry Allied Sci. 2016 Nov 26. [Epub ahead of print] Available from: http://www.ojpas.com/get_file.php?id=31473845&vnr=757711

Source: News

In Horizon, the supplement with The Assam Tribune, dated Friday 30 September 2016, Shyamanta Das, Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS™) in his Mind Matters column, “Women and mental health” wrote about the Guest Editorial by same title of Unaiza Niaz published in OJPAS™.

Source: News