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Learn more about upcoming events at the Centre for Brain and Mind - NIMHANS Upcoming Events 5 days to the event Perspectives of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder - Zine Making Workshop 31 Oct 2026, 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Come be part of an interactive space for dialogue and creative expression with persons with lived experience (PwLE), caregivers, NIMHANS representatives, and the public to explore addiction beyond stigma and substance use, and the people who are so much more than it. Register here Past Events Measuring Neural Health: An Energetic Signature of the Living Brain Mon, 12 Oct Arts Theater Details Perspectives of Addiction - Zine Making Workshop Sat, 04 Jul NIMHANS Centre for Well-Being Details The Fault in our Cells Sun, 26 Apr The Bangalore Local Why do mental illnesses exist and why do they affect some people but not others ? Details Medulina Matu | Prof Raghu Padinjat Fri, 06 Mar Samagata Foundation Medulina Mathu (“brain talks”) is a new series by the Centre for Brain and Mind, NIMHANS, that brings neuroscience out of the lab and into everyday conversation. Details Brain Bridge: Talks by CBM NIMHANS | Prof Deepak Srivastava Thu, 12 Feb Zoom Webinar Details Load More

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Project Associate hema.hp17@gmail.com Back Back to People Page Back Clinical Team, Doctoral Candidate Hemavathi BN Project Associate CBM, A-BIG-NET Hi, I am Hemavathi a Project Associate 1 at GenECT. With a Master's degree in Psychology, I have work experience with Addition Medicine, Women and Child development and community outreach awareness programmes. I enjoy cooking, craft works and traveling.

Project Associate, Doctoral Student lakshanadp1998@gmail.com Google Scholar | LinkedIn Back Back to People Page Back Lab Team, Doctoral Candidate Lakshana DP Project Associate, Doctoral Student CBM Lakshana is a Ph.D candidate working on understanding the mechanisms of lithium in bipolar disorder. Lakshana's personality can be summed up in a few words; hungry, sleepy & bad at math (until she has to run stats for her experiments).

Project Assistant, Doctoral Student pannagaprasadg@gmail.com LinkedIn | Twitter | Instgram ORCID ID: 0009-0009-2075-7979 Back Back to People Page Back Lab Team, Doctoral Candidate Pannaga Prasad G Project Assistant, Doctoral Student CBM, MGL Pannaga Prasad G is a dedicated Project Assistant with a passion for molecular biology and genetic research. Holding an Integrated MSc in Molecular Biology, Pannaga brings expertise in Sanger sequencing, variant effect prediction, electrophoresis, and NGS analysis to his role. Apart from his scientific pursuits, he's an avid chess player and passionate about nature conservation, spending his free time gardening and exploring the outdoors.

Professor, Department of Psychiatry jagatth@yahoo.com , jaga@nimhans.ac.in LinkedIn | Google Scholar Back Back to People Page Back Co-Investigator Team Schizophrenia Dr Jagadisha Thirthalli Professor, Department of Psychiatry Dr. Jagadisha Thirthalli is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at NIMHANS (Faculty since 2002). He has 20 years of research and practical experience in ECT and other brain stimulation techniques. He’s had several awards including Marfatia Award of the Indian Psychiatric Society and CV Raman Award from Government of Karnataka and has publications in Brain Stimulation, Schizophrenia Research, Journal of ECT, Journal of Affective Disorders amongst others.

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Clinical Postdoctoral Fellow (Equivalent to Senior Resident-Psychiatry) rabablotiya@gmail.com Back Back to People Page Back Clinical Team Dr Rubab Lotiya Clinical Postdoctoral Fellow (Equivalent to Senior Resident-Psychiatry) CBM, A-BIG-NET

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Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Centre for Integrative Medicine and Research hollabharath@gmail.com LinkedIn ORCID ID: 0000-0003-0999-1237 Back Back to People Page Back 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. 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 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 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 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 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