LinkedIn | Google Scholar Back Back to People Page Back Co-Investigator Team Dr Urvaksh M Mehta ​ Additional Professor, Department of Psychiatry Urvakhsh Mehta practices in Bengaluru, India. Mehta and is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. Their top areas of expertise are Schizophrenia, COVID-19, Bipolar Disorder (BPD), and Delirium Tremens. Their clinical research consists of co-authoring 119 peer reviewed articles in the past 15 years.

LinkedIn Back Back to People Page Back Co-Investigator Team Dr Suhas Ganesh ​ Clinician Scientist, MQ: Transforming Mental Health - Fellow, Department of Psychiatry

Google Scholar Back Back to People Page Back Co-Investigator Team Dr Shyam Sundar ​ Professor, Department of Psychiatry Dr. Shyam Sundar A is an Associate Professor in psychiatry at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India. He completed his MBBS from Coimbatore Medical College, Tamil Nadu in 2002 and his postgraduate training in psychiatry at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in 2006. He worked in AIIMS, New Delhi and Christian Medical College, Vellore before joining NIMHANS as a faculty in the department of psychiatry in 2011. He has been part of the obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) clinic since then. His areas of interest include obsessive-compulsive disorder, bipolar disorder, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). He was involved in a research project on the use of rTMS for OCD. He has published in many national and international scientific journals and authored various book chapters on psychiatry. He recently completed a fellowship in bipolar disorders from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

LinkedIn Back Back to People Page Back Lab Team Dr Kathirvel K ​ Project Scientist (Lab) Kathirvel Kandasamy, is the Project Scientist in Neurobiology Research Centre at the National Institute of Mental Health and NeuroSciences. He graduated from Bharathidasan University with Master of Technology in Bioinformatics and then earned his Ph.D. in 2023 from SASTRA University, studying microbial keratitis with advanced NGS techniques. His research interest integrates Neurobiology, Human genetics and Bioinformatics to study Neurodevelopmental disorders.

ResearchGate Back Back to People Page Back Investigator Team Dr Meera Purushottam ​ Senior scientific officer, Department of Psychiatry Dr Meera is Senior Scientific Officer in the Molecular genetics Laboratory where she leads projects on molecular genetics of neuropsychiatric illness. Genetic epidemiology of triplet repeat disorders and pharmacogenetics of psychiatric diseases along with understanding biological phenomenon such as telomere length and mitochondrial copy number maintenance in the context of neuropsychiatric illness has been an important focus of the laboratory. She has a special interest in the role of epigenetics in mental health particularly alcohol addiction. She has also initiated genetic testing of patient samples for several neurological disorders such as spinocerebellar ataxia, Huntington’s disease, spinal muscular atrophy and Duchenne muscular dystrophy .

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Google Scholar Back Back to People Page Back Co-Investigator Team Dr Muralidharan Kesavan ​ Professor, Department of Psychiatry

LinkedIn | Twitter | Google Scholar Back Back to People Page Back Co-Investigator Team Dr Bhagyalakshmi M. S ​ Project Scientist, Department of Psychiatry Dr Bhagyalakshmi is a project scientist at Centre for Brain and Mind with PhD in Genetics and Epigenetics of Psychiatric disorders. Experienced researcher in working with clinical samples, conducted association and candidate gene studies. Also she has worked extensively on DNA methylation in psychiatric disorders including Alzheimer's disease, Obsessive-compulsive disorder, Alcohol Use Disorder, and Alcohol Liver Disease. Currently working on molecular genetics, epigenetics, and epigenomics of various neuropsychiatric disorders to understand the contribution of epigenetic modifications to the disease pathobiology and to explore gene -environment interaction in this aspect.

Back Back to People Page Back Clinical Team Ms. Mallappagari Sreenivasulu ​ Psychiatric Social Worker (Research) Dr.M.Sreenivasulu is a Psychiatric Social Worker at the Centre for Brain and Mind. He has completed his Masters in Social Work (MSW), M. Phil Psychiatric Social Work and PhD in Psychiatric Social Work from NIMHANS. He has experience of providing Psychosocial interventions for individuals and research experience with the families in the field of Substance use disorders and other Major Psychiatric illness. ORCID ID: 00000001-8068-9810

ResearchGate Back Back to People Page Back Co-Investigator Team Dr Pratima Murthy ​ Director & Senior Professor, Department of Psychiatry Presently Director and Senior Professor of Psychiatry at NIMHANS, Bengaluru, India. Head girl and best outgoing student of Sophia HIgh School. Graduate of the Bangalore Medical College . Diploma and MD (1985-89) in Psychiatry from NIMHANS and outstanding student. DPM from the University of Manchester, (1992). Faculty in the Department of Psychiatry since 1994, presently Senior Professor of Psychiatry. Earlier, Head of the Centre for Addiction Medicine Forensic Psychiatry and Department of Psychiatry . Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow. Contributions 1. Mental hospital reform and quality assurance in mental health in India (NHRC) 2. Leadership to Telemanas initiative, brain health initiative, women's mental health (NCW) 3. Member of the STAG, WHO, Expert group on Mental Health and Substance Use, Geneva and SEARO 4. Director of WPA collaborating cente and group on implementing alternatives to coercion 5. Involved in prison mental health care, consultation on mental health issues related to death row prisoners 6. Involved in developing addiction treatment services at NIMHANS, expanding the clinical facility, establishing a state of art toxicology laboratory (a member of the WHOTobLabNet), initiated tobacco cessation and quitline services at NIMHANS, formulated national guidelines for tobacco cessation, Mcessation, substance use disorders, psychosocial interventions and opioid substitution. 7. Provided consultancy to the UNODC for women using substances, women partners of men who use substances. 8. Worked with the the WHO country office to develop training modules and programmes for risk reduction for non-communicable disorders 9. Initiated workplace programmes for substance use disorders. 10. International trainer for ILO/UNODC/WHO 10. Focused on developing an integrated approach for mental and physical disorders (IMPACT project). 11. Digital initiatives -setting up of virtual online programmes in addiction, (ECHO) NIMHANS Digital Academy (NDA) to expand human resources, an addiction treatment app 12. PG training in psychiatry (IPS). Involved in the training of young psychiatrists. 13. Involved in setting up the NIMHANS Heritage Museum, Co-editor of Mindscapes and Landscapes, an illustrative coffee table book documenting the story of NIMHANS, 14. About 40 research projects, > 300 peer reviewed publications, >400 presentations. 15. Public awareness intiatives on radio, TV, newspaper and magazine articles. 16, Honours include orations (IPS), Raja Ramanna Award, WHO Regional Directors award, among others.

LinkedIn | Google Scholar Back Back to People Page Back Co-Investigator Team Dr Thennarasu Kandavel ​ Professor, Department of Biostatistics

LinkedIn | Google Scholar Back Back to People Page Back Co-Investigator Team Dr Sreeraj V S ​ Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry Dr. Sreeraj VS is a psychiatrist and physician-scientist in the Clinical Research Centre for neuromodulation in psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry, NIMHANS. He did his Psychiatry Residency training at three of the esteemed psychiatric institutes of India namely, Central Institute of Psychiatry (CIP), Ranchi; Institute of Mental Health and Hospital (IMHH), Agra; and NIMHANS, Bangalore including post- doctoral fellowship in clinical neurosciences and therapeutics in schizophrenia. His research interests include neurocognitive and neurobiological markers of psychiatric disorders, translational psychiatry, and brain stimulation.