Additional Professor, Department of Psychiatric Social Work anishvcherian@gmail.com Back Back to People Page Back Co-Investigator Team Dr Anish V. Cherian Additional Professor, Department of Psychiatric Social Work

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 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.

Professor, Department of Neuro Imaging & Interventional Radiology LinkedIn | Google Scholar jsaini76@gmail.com Back Back to People Page Back Co-Investigator Team Dr Jitender Saini Professor, Department of Neuro Imaging & Interventional Radiology

Professor, Department of Biostatistics Google Scholar binukumarb@gmail.com Back Back to People Page Back Co-Investigator Team Dr B Binu Kumar Professor, Department of Biostatistics

Psychiatric Social Worker shamashareen06nov@gmail.com Back Back to People Page Back Clinical Team Shama Shareen R Psychiatric Social Worker Ms.Shama Shareen R is a Psychiatric Social Worker at the Centre for Brain and Mind who had completed her M.Phil in Psychiatric Social Work from NIMHANS, Bangalore. Her Areas of Interest are Promotive and Preventive Interventions in Mental Health, Severe Mental Illness and Homeless Persons with Mental Illness.Performance Arts, Cooking, Organising are her other interests.

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Associate Professor, Department of Human Genetics gautham.arunachal@gmail.com Back Back to People Page Back Co-Investigator Team Dr Gautam Arunachal Udupi Associate Professor, Department of Human Genetics

Director & Senior Professor, Department of Psychiatry ResearchGate Back Back to People Page Back Co-Investigator Team Dr Pratima Murthy Director & Senior Professor, Department of Psychiatry Dr. Pratima brings about 30 years of extensive experience and exceptional accomplishments in the field of mental health. A well-recognized leader in addiction psychiatry, she has been instrumental in the successful development of state-of-the-art Centre for Addiction Medicine at NIMHANS. She has served as a consultant to prominent international agencies such as the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the World Health Organisation (WHO). She has also served as a resource person for various flagship training programmes in substance abuse prevention and tobacco cessation in the country, and across the globe. Dr Pratima is also recognised for her contribution in improving care for persons with mental illness through her work with the National Human Rights Commission on quality assurance in mental health care both in institutions and in the community. In recognition of her research and academic excellence, Dr. Pratima has received numerous awards and honours including the prestigious Dr. Raja Ramanna State Award by the Government of Karnataka and Lifetime Achievement Award from Rotary. Recently, she was honoured with the WHO Regional Director’s Special Recognition Award on ‘World No Tobacco Day 2021’ for her remarkable service in tobacco control. A prolific author, she has more than 300 research publications in various international indexed journals and scientific books to her credit. Dr. Pratima received her MBBS degree from Bangalore Medical College in 1985. She obtained DPM and MD (Psychological Medicine) from NIMHANS in 1987 and 1989 respectively. She joined as a faculty at her alma mater in 1993, and has worked in various academic capacities since then. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP), Glasgow.

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MRI Technician ganeshgv7007@gmail.com Back Back to People Page Back MRI/EEG Team Ganesh G V MRI Technician Ganesh is a Laboratory Technician in Centre for Brain and Mind Project. With a Masters degree in Virology, Ganesh has working experience in molecular biology research, and clinical laboratory. He enjoys photography, watching movies and Gardening in his spare time

Project Associate preethi1682000@gmail.com Back Back to People Page Back Lab Team Preethi KP Project Associate Preethi is a Project Associate( Lab) at the Centre for Brain and Mind. With a Master’s degree in Genetics and Plant Breeding and working in Plant- pathogen interactions lab, Preethi has experience in molecular techniques like Cloning, qRT PCR, PAGE, Western blotting etc:- She love to dance, play badminton and enjoys listening to music!

Lab Senior Scientist (Equivalent to Research Associate Professor), Department of Psychiatry Twitter | LinkedIn reeteka@gmail.com Back Back to People Page Back Co-Investigator Team Stem Cell Research Dr Reeteka Sud Lab Senior Scientist (Equivalent to Research Associate Professor), Department of Psychiatry A neuroscientist by training, my research interests are centered on molecular basis of brain disorders, particularly using stem cell and genetic technologies to find out the "whys" and "hows" of neurologic and psychiatric diseases. I am also very passionate about public outreach and science education (specifically incorporating research in science education). Publications Agrawal, A., Bulik, C. M., Abebe, D. S., Andreassen, O. A., Atkinson, E. G., Choi, K., Corvin, A., Davies, H. L., Davis, L., Docherty, A., Edenberg, H. J., Franke, B., Gelernter, J., Giusti-Rodriguez, P., Hettema, J. M., Hjerling-Leffler, J., Huang, H., Johnson, E. C., Lewis, C., … Sullivan, P. (2025). The Psychiatric Genomics Consortium: Discoveries and Directions . https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/xykj2_v2 Cabrera-Mendoza, B., Burmeister, M., Rietschel, M., Crepaz-Keay, D., Balhara, Y. P. S., Seedat, S., Marshe, V., Hemmings, S., Peterson, R. E., Kaushik, R., Viswanath, B., Sud, R ., Haldar, P., Johnstone, M., Cherian, A. V., Lencz, T., Zinkstok, J., Polimanti, R., Mueller, D. J., … Docherty, A. (2024). Equitable Collaboration between LMIC and HIC Researchers, Part I: A Preliminary Framework for Capacity Building in Psychiatric Genetics Research . https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/83qry_v1 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 Sud, R . (2024). Deciphering how ApoE shapes neurodevelopment. Alzheimer’s & Dementia , 20 (S1), e090731. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.090731 Viswanath, B., Sud, R. , Ganesh, S., Mahadevan, J., Holla, B., Paul, P., Purushottam, M., & Jain, S. (2024). DECIPHERING THE UNDERLYING BIOLOGY OF PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS THROUGH LONGITUDINAL FAMILY COHORT BASED STUDIES IN INDIA. European Neuropsychopharmacology , 87 , 43–44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroneuro.2024.08.108