Description:
NIMHANS is an institute of National Importance, funded by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India. The clinical services of the Department of Psychiatry to the needs of patients across the country as well as neighboring countries in South Asia through regular outpatient, inpatient and various special clinics for de-addiction, geriatric psychiatry, schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, community psychiatry, family psychiatry, perinatal mental health disorders, metabolic disorders and pain management clinic in psychiatry.
The department has a long history of research endeavors in biological psychiatry especially genetics, details of which can be found here: http://nimhans.ac.in/psychiatry/overview/
| Investigator | Profession | Contact Information | Publications | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sanjeev Jain, MD | Professor, Department of Psychiatry | sjain.nimhans@gmail.com | Google Scholar |  |
| YC Janardhan Reddy, MD | Professor, Department of Psychiatry | ycjreddy@gmail.com | Google Scholar |  |
| Biju Viswanath MD, PhD | Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry | bijuv1@gmail.com | Google Scholar |  |
| Ganesan Venkatasubramanian, MD PhD | Professor, Department of Psychiatry | venkat.nimhans@gmail.com | Google Scholar |  |
| Muralidharan Kesavan, MD | Professor, Department of Psychiatry Medical Superintendent, NIMHANS Hospital | kmd@nimhans.ac.in | Google Scholar |  |
| Meera Purushottam, PhD | Senior Scientific Officer, Molecular Genetics Lab, Department of Psychiatry | meera.purushottam@gmail.com | Research Gate |  |
| Vivek Benegal, MD | Professor, Department of Psychiatry | vbenegal@gmail.com | Google Scholar |  |
| Jagadisha Thirthalli, MD | Professor, Department of Psychiatry | jagatth@yahoo.com | Research Gate |  |
| John P John, MD | Professor, Department of Psychiatry | jpjinc@yahoo.com | Google Scholar |  |
| Naren P Rao, MD | Additional Professor, Department of Psychiatry | docnaren@gmail.com | Google Scholar |  |
| Urvakhsh Mehta, MD | Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry | urvakhsh@gmail.com | Google Scholar |  |
| Reeteka Sud, PhD | Research Coordinator, Accelerator Program for Discovery in Brain Disorders using Stem cells (ADBS) | reeteka@gmail.com | Google Scholar |  |
| Bharath Holla, MD | Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Integrative Medicine, NIMHANS, Bangalore | hollabharat@gmail.com | Google Scholar |  |
| Jayant Mahadevan, MD DM | Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry Centre for Addiction Medicine | jayantmahadevan@gmail.com | Google Scholar |  |
| Srinivas Balachander, MD | Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry (Accelerator Program for Discovery in Brain disorders using Stem cells – ADBS) | srinivasbalachander@gmail.com | Google Scholar |  |
| Dhruva Ithal, MD | Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry (ADBS), NIMHANS, Bangalore | drdhruva.ithal@gmail.com |  |
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| K John Vijay Sagar, MD | Professor & Head, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | sagarjohn@gmail.com | Research Gate |  |
| Monojit Debnath, Ph.D | Additional Professor Department of Human Genetics & Adjunct Faculty, Department of Clinical Neurosciences | monozeet@gmail.com | Google Scholar |  |
| Ganesan Venkatasubramanian, MD PhD | Professor, Dept of Psychiatry | venkat.nimhans@gmail.com | Google Scholar |  |
| K John Vijay Sagar, MD | Professor & Head, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | sagarjohn@gmail.com | Research Gate |  |
| Monojit Debnath, Ph.D | Additional Professor Department of Human Genetics & Adjunct Faculty, Department of Clinical Neurosciences | monozeet@gmail.com monojit-d@nimhans.ac.in | Google Scholar |  |
Research
Previous/ Ongoing Research Collaborations
c-VEDA (Consortium on Vulnerability to Externalizing Disorders & Addictions)
- An ICMR - MRC grant and its main papers
- Comprises of >14.000 participants aged 0-25 years who have been genotyped
- Participants include those with high risk for substance misuse and population-based individuals from different social and environmental (rural and urban) backgrounds.
Collaborating Sites:
- NIMHANS Bangalore,
- PGIMER, Chandigarh;
- RIMH, Tezpur,
- Mysore
ADBS (Accelerator Program for Discovery in Brain Disorders using Stem Cells
- Funded by Department of Biotechnology, Government of India
- Study of multiplex families with severe mental illnesses
- Whole exome sequencing for 300 multiplex-affected families and population controls
Publications
Wray et al. (2018) in Nature Genetics: Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-018-0090-3
Howard et al. (2019) in Nature Neuroscience: Genome-wide meta-analysis of depression identifies 102 independent variants and highlights the importance of the prefrontal brain regions. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-018-0326-7
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