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Senior Professor and Head, Department of Psychiatry Google Scholar Back Back to People Page Back Investigator Team Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Dr YC Janardhan Reddy Senior Professor and Head, Department of Psychiatry CBM Dr Reddy is a Professor of Psychiatry at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India. He completed his MBBS from the Government Medical College, Bellary in 1986 and obtained his MD degree in psychiatry from the NIMHANS in 1991. He is on the faculty of the department of Psychiatry at NIMHANS since 1995. The obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) clinic at the institute is headed by him. The OCD clinic is involved in clinical services, post-graduate training and research. His areas of specialization include obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, bipolar disorders and clinical psychopharmacology. Dr Reddy has special interest in studying the long-term course and outcome of OCD and bipolar disorders and in the management of treatment resistant OCD patients. Recently, the OCD Clinic has initiated neurosurgery program for treatment refractory OCD patients. Dr Reddy is involved in studies of phenomenology, comorbidty, family-genetics, treatment resistance, neuropsychology and neuroimaging in OCD. His current area of study involves studying neuropsychological and neuroimaging endophenotypes in OCD. He has published extensively in international and national peer reviewed journals on OCD and bipolar disorders. He is also the reviewer for many national and international journals in psychiatry. In view of his interest in clinical psychopharmacology, Dr Reddy has participated in international clinical drug trials of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and OCD. He mentors post-graduate and doctoral students in their research work and is a mentor of the Fogarty Indo-US Training Program. He was awarded the Visiting commonwealth research fellow at the Oxford University Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK in the years 1999 and 2000. He has also been awarded the prestigious Sir C.V. Raman State Award for the Young Scientists for the year 2011 by the Government of Karnataka. Dr. Reddy has funded projects on OCD from the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) of the Government of India. He is a member of the WHO Working Group on Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders for revision of ICD-10. Publications Bhattacharya, M., Kashyap, H., Balachander, S., & Reddy, Y. C. J. (2024). Validation of the Cognitive Assessment Instrument for Obsessions and Compulsions (CAIOC-13) in an Indian Sample. Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine , 02537176241245330. https://doi.org/10.1177/02537176241245330 Bhattacharya, M., Kashyap, H., & Reddy, Y. C. J. (2024). Cognitive Training in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Systematic Review. Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine , 46 (2), 110–118. https://doi.org/10.1177/02537176231207781 Kurth, F., Schijven, D., Van Den Heuvel, O. A., Hoogman, M., Van Rooij, D., Stein, D. J., Buitelaar, J. K., Bölte, S., Auzias, G., Kushki, A., Venkatasubramanian, G., Rubia, K., Bollmann, S., Isaksson, J., Jaspers‐Fayer, F., Marsh, R., Batistuzzo, M. C., Arnold, P. D., Bressan, R. A., … Luders, E. (2024). Large‐scale analysis of structural brain asymmetries during neurodevelopment: Associations with age and sex in 4265 children and adolescents. Human Brain Mapping , 45 (11), e26754. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26754 Sharma, L. P., Ganesh, U. M., Arumugham, S. S., Srinivas, D., Venkatasubramanian, G., & Reddy, Y. J. (2025). Deep brain stimulation–A primer for psychiatrists. Asian Journal of Psychiatry , 104 , 104354. Thatikonda, N. S., Narayanaswamy, J. C., Venkatasubramanian, G., Reddy, Y. J. , & Arumugham, S. S. (2025). Differential Functional Connectivity of Frontolimbic Circuit During Symptom Provocation in Distinct Symptom Profiles of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Connectivité fonctionnelle différentielle du circuit frontolimbique durant la provocation de symptômes dans des profils symptomatiques distincts du trouble obsessionnel-compulsif. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. Revue Canadienne de Psychiatrie , 07067437251328368.

Project Associate shahilrahmantk7@gmail.com Back Back to People Page Back Lab Team Shahil Rahman T K Project Associate CBM, MQ Shahil Rahman is a Project Associate at the Centre for Brain and Mind. He holds a Master’s degree in Human Genetics from the Central University of Punjab and has research experience in neurobiology and neurodevelopmental disorder-related studies. His interests include neuroscience, developmental biology, and stem cell based research, and he also enjoys running in his free time.

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Junior Research Fellow manishadevi.neuro@gmail.com LinkedIn Back Back to People Page Back MRI/EEG Team, Doctoral Candidate Manisha Devi Junior Research Fellow CBM, A-BIG-NET Manisha Devi is a Junior Research Fellow at the Centre for Brain and Mind, specializing in Neurotechnology and Cognitive Science. She brings expertise in MRI analysis to support the team’s research initiatives. Alongside her academic pursuits, she has a keen interest in photography, poetry, music, and dance. Her long-term objective is to contribute novel insights and advancements to the field of Neuroimaging Research.

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry drpreethi20@gmail.com LinkedIn | ResearchGate Back Back to People Page Back Co-Investigator Team Bipolar Disorder Dr Preethi V Reddy Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry

Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry vs8sreeraj@yahoo.com , drvs8sreeraj@gmail.com , sre1691@nimhans.ac.in LinkedIn | Google Scholar Back Back to People Page Back Co-Investigator Team Schizophrenia 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.

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Project Associate nikithamn595@gmail.com Back Back to People Page Back Clinical Team Nikitha Purohit Project Associate CBM, DBT/IA Lithium Nikitha is a neuropsychologist associated with the Centre for Brain and Mind, NIMHANS. She holds a Master’s degree in Neuropsychology and has experience working in clinical and research settings, contributing to digital mental health interventions and neuroscience-related projects. Her interests lie at the intersection of brain, behavior, and mental health. Outside of work, she enjoys reading novels, dancing, and exploring creative writing.