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Co-Investigator Team

Addiction

Dr Bharath Holla

Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Centre for Integrative Medicine and Research

Dr. Holla is a physician-scientist (MD, PhD) involved in patient care, research and post-graduate training in psychiatry. He has a deep interest in designing novel treatment approaches for psychiatric disorders, as well as using traditional approaches (like yoga) for health and well-being After completing postgraduate residency in psychiatry, he specialised in the field of addiction psychiatry with a post-doctoral clinical fellowship at NIMHANS. His PhD work involved imaging-genomics of addiction vulnerability in adolescents. He strongly believes that future progress in neuroscience and psychiatry will stem from open-science and multi-disciplinary collaborations. Therefore, he has been actively involved in several multi-institute and multi-country population neuroscience work that have resulted in high-impact research publications and larger impacts on the community.

  1. Benegal, V., Chakrabarti, A., Holla, B., Basu, D., Sharma, E., Purushottam, M., Mahadevan, J., Goyal, N., Nebhinani, N., Basu, A., Singh, R. L., Khanra, S., & Viswanath, B. (2024). W57. PATHWAYS TO RESILIENCE AND MENTAL-HEALTH [PARAM]: A NEURODEVELOPMENTAL COHORT FROM INDIA. European Neuropsychopharmacology, 87, 132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroneuro.2024.08.266

  2. Bhargav, H., Raghavan, V., Rao, N. P., Gulati, K., Binumon, K. V., Anu, K. N., Ravi, S., Jasti, N., Holla, B., Varambally, S., & Ramachandran, P. (2024). Validation and efficacy of a tele-yoga intervention for improving psychological stress, mental health and sleep difficulties of stressed adults diagnosed with long COVID: A prospective, multi-center, open-label single-arm study. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1436691. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1436691

  3. Jeevan, Y., Mahadevan, J., Viswanath, B., Jain, S., Ganesh, S., Holla, B., Purushottam, M., & Shankarappa, B. (2024). F35. INVESTIGATING GENETIC RISK FOR PSYCHOSIS IN BIPOLAR DISORDER IN INDIA USING POLYGENIC SCORES. European Neuropsychopharmacology, 87, 224. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroneuro.2024.08.446

  4. Mahadevan, J., Holla, B., Ganesh, S., Shankarappa, B., Paul, P., Sud, R., Jain, S., Purushottam, M., & Viswanath, B. (2024). W32. A GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY OF BIPOLAR DISORDER FROM INDIA. European Neuropsychopharmacology, 87, 118. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroneuro.2024.08.241

  5. Shekar Mv, C., Bhargav, H., Holla, B., Mahadevan, J., Singh, A., Narasimha, V. L., Katla, N., Snigdha, A., S, K., & Maheswari, E. (2024). Efficacy of yoga-breath linked intervention to stop smoking (Y-BLISS) in reducing the number of cigarettes smoked per day among smokers attempting to reduce or quit: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Wellcome Open Research, 9, 693. https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.22839.1

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