High risk behaviour and LGBT people
In today’s Mind Matters column, titled “High risk behaviour and LGBT people” of Horizon, the supplement with The Assam Tribune, Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) discusses the research article, “A study of high-risk behaviour among LGBT people of Manipur” by Niranjan Hebbar YR and Rajkumar Lenin Singh that is published advance online in OJPAS®.
Coming out
“Disclosure of sexual orientation: case series depicting parental response” by Budhiswatya Shankar Das and published in the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) is discussed in the Mind Matters column of Shyamanta Das, Editor-in-Chief of OJPAS®, titled “Coming out” in Horizon, the supplement with today’s The Assam Tribune.
Rijusmita Sarma as Editorial Assistant of OJPAS®

Counselling Psychologist and Psychotherapist, Dr. Rijusmita Sarma, BAMS, MSc in Psychology, CCS has started working as the Editorial Assistant of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).
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.
