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Project Associate, PhD Candidate LinkedIn mythri0834@gmail.com Back Back to People Page Back Lab Team, Research Students & Fellows Mythri S V Project Associate, PhD Candidate Mythri is a PhD scholar at the Centre for Brain and Mind. She obtained her Masters in Biochemistry from Central College, Bengaluru City University. She plans to work on the cellular phenotypes in obsessive compulsive disorder using iPSC derived brain cells. Apart from Science, she's a coffee and dosa aficionado, enjoys dancing and singing, watching films and exploring food joints in her spare time.

Senior Professor & Department of Psychiatry Google Scholar Back Back to People Page Back Co-Investigator Team Dr Prabha S Chandra Senior Professor & Department of Psychiatry Dr. Prabha S. Chandra, is a Professor and Head of Psychiatry at NIMHANS, Bangalore, India. She studied at the Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi and NIMHANS. She has served as a Temporary Advisor to the WHO and UNAIDS and is the Secretary of the International Association of Women’s Mental Health, a nominated member of the World Psychiatric Association and an executive member of the Marce International society. She has been an NHS International Fellow and Consultant in Manchester, UK and a visiting professor at the University of Liverpool. Her main areas of interest are Women's Mental Health, Perinatal Psychiatry, teaching methods, ethics and palliative care. She has nearly 180 publications and has edited several books. She has three active research grants and has won several recognitions and awards. She has started the first dedicated psychiatry service including a Mother Baby unit in South Asia for mothers with severe mental illness.

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Senior Professor and Head, Department of Psychiatry Google Scholar 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. 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.

Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Centre for Integrative Medicine and Research LinkedIn hollabharath@gmail.com 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 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.

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