Professor, Department of Psychiatry LinkedIn | Google Scholar jagatth@yahoo.com , jaga@nimhans.ac.in 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 Post Doctoral Fellow (Equivalent to Senior Resident, Psychiatry) pratibha.vinod9422@gmail.com Back Back to People Page Back Clinical Team Dr Pratibha Vinod Clinical Post Doctoral Fellow (Equivalent to Senior Resident, Psychiatry) Pratibha has an MD in Psychiatry from NIMHANS. She loves to see patterns in everyday be it people, nature or things, and loves science for this reason. She loves to study people and their idiosyncrasies. In her spare time she sings and reads fiction.

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Professor, Department of Psychiatry LinkedIn | Google Scholar sivakumar.nimhans@gmail.com Back Back to People Page Back Co-Investigator Team Dementia Dr P T Sivakumar Professor, Department of Psychiatry

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Associate Professor, Department of Mental Health Education latha12k@gmail.com Back Back to People Page Back Co-Investigator Team Dr Latha K Associate Professor, Department of Mental Health Education

Assistant Professor, Centre for Addiction Medicine, Department of Psychiatry Google Scholar jayantmahadevan@gmail.com Back Back to People Page Back Co-Investigator Team Addiction Dr Jayant Mahadevan Assistant Professor, Centre for Addiction Medicine, Department of Psychiatry Publications Jha, A., Sharma, A. K., & Mahadevan, J. (2024). Addiction Research in South Asia. In S. M. Y. Arafat & S. K. Kar (Eds.), Current Perspectives on Substance Use Disorders in South Asia (pp. 245–277). Springer Nature Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-6619-2_13 Parate, N., Br, M., R, S., Narasimha, V. L., Mahadevan, J. , Chand, P., Murthy, P., & Arora, S. (2024). NAMAH—An Innovative Tele-ECHO Mentoring Program to Foster Well-being Among Physicians. Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine , 02537176241287839. https://doi.org/10.1177/02537176241287839 Ritter, P., Glenn, T., Achtyes, E. D., Alda, M., Agaoglu, E., Altınbaş, K., Andreassen, O. A., Angelopoulos, E., Ardau, R., Aydin, M., Ayhan, Y., Baethge, C., Bauer, R., Baune, B. T., Balaban, C., Becerra-Palars, C., Behere, A. P., Behere, P. B., Belete, H., … Bauer, M. (2024). Association between a large change between the minimum and maximum monthly values of solar insolation and a history of suicide attempts in bipolar I disorder. International Journal of Bipolar Disorders , 12 (1), 43. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40345-024-00364-5 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 Shivaprakash, P., Shukla, L., Joshi, S., Mahadevan, J. , Kandasamy, A., Chand, P. K., Benegal, V., & Murthy, P. (2025). Tapentadol as a drug of abuse – A preliminary report. Indian Journal of Psychiatry , 67 (2), 256–259. https://doi.org/10.4103/indianjpsychiatry.indianjpsychiatry_794_24

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Project Scientist (Lab) LinkedIn imtiaz.stem@gmail.com Back Back to People Page Back Lab Team Stem Cell Research Dr Imtiaz Zafar Project Scientist (Lab) Imtiaz is a Project Scientist at the Centre for Brain and Mind with a doctoral degree in Neuroscience and Pluripotent Stem Cells from NCBS-TIFR, Bangalore and postdoctoral training from Regenerative Medicine Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA. At CBM, he is investigating the effect of Clozapine treatment on NSC and IPSC/ NSC derived cortical neurons. In his spare time he likes watching movies and sports and listening to music.