Elsevier Reviewer RECOGNITION
The Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), Shyamanta Das has been awarded the recognition of ‘Outstanding reviewer’ and ‘Recognized reviewer’ for the years 2017 and 2016 respectively by the Editors of ASIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY, Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Asexuality
In today’s Mind Matters column, titled “Asexuality” in Horizon, the supplement with The Assam Tribune, Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) discusses the case report, ““I am no male or female or any other, I have no sex”: a case report on asexuality” by Niranjan Hebbar YR, Senilio Magh, and Ashutosh Dash that is published in the current issue (January-June 2018, Volume 9 Issue 1) of OJPAS®.
Attitude towards intellectual disability
Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) presented the keynote address, “Attitudes towards intellectual disability” at Sudmersen Hall, Cotton University and was the Chief Resource Person in an awareness and sensitisation programme organised by the Cotton University Students’ Union, Morom – a group of socially concerned Cottonians, and the Department of Anthropology, Cotton University that was inaugurated by the Vice-Chancellor, Cotton University.
Mood disorders
In the Mind Matters column, titled “Mood disorders” published in the Horizon, the supplement with today’s The Assam Tribune, Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), Shyamanta Das wrote about “A case report on very late onset mania” by Manjunadh Muraleedharan, Sunil Suthar, and Bhupendra Singh from the current issue of the journal (July-December 2017, Volume 8 Issue 2).
Psychiatric morbidity and carcinoma cervix
Psychiatric morbidities in patients of carcinoma cervix
Adya Shanker Srivastava, Akhilesh Shukla, Sulekha Pandey, AK Asthana, Maheshwar Nath Tripathi, Balram Pandit, Jai Singh Yadav
Open J Psychiatry Allied Sci. 2017 Aug 31. [Epub ahead of print]. Available from: http://www.ojpas.com/get_file.php?id=32266036&vnr=304712

ITBPF
Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), Shyamanta Das had an interactive session in the Transit Camp of the Indo-Tibet Border Police Force (ITBPF) at Jalukbari, Guwahati.

Sexual Dysfunction and Antipsychotic
In an Interactive Workshop on Schizophrenia Management, Shyamanta Das, Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) spoke on Sexual Dysfunction and Antipsychotic at Hotel Gateway Grandeur, Guwahati.

Anubhav
Anubhav, the souvenir of the Gauhati Medical College Hospital Karmachari Santha (GMCHKS) is released during its 35th biennial conference held in Academic Hall, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, GMCH, Guwahati. Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) wrote on ‘stress at workplace’.

The article, titled “Karmasthanat manoxik chap” began with mention about the journal’s editorial board member Professor Russell Franco D’Souza, MD and his International Institute of Organisational Psychological Medicine. The article also discusses the original work “A study to assess burnout among nurses of maternity department in Gauhati Medical College Hospital, Assam” by Marami Baishya and Bivarani Goswami that was published in the January-June 2016, Volume 7 Issue 1 of the journal.
Adults with obesity
Psychological well-being and weight efficacy lifestyle of adults with obesity
Harpreet Mehar, Shikha Srivastava, Ranjana Tiwari
Open J Psychiatry Allied Sci. 2017 Aug 24. [Epub ahead of print]. Available from: http://www.ojpas.com/get_file.php?id=32245963&vnr=687369

Hiranya Saikia joins OJPAS®
Dr. Hiranya Saikia, M. Sc., M. Phil., Ph. D. joins the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) as Statistical Consultant. Dr. Saikia is the Senior Lecturer (Biostatistics) in the Department of Community Medicine (SPM), Assam Medical College, Dibrugarh-786 002, Assam, India.