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Government Hospital for Mental Care, Visakhapatnam

Description:

The Government Hospital for Mental care, Visakhapatnam was started as Lunatic Asylum in British India in 1863 with 94 beds. Renamed in 1977, the hospital’s outpatient facility registers over 70,000 patients annually, and treats about 4000 patients in its 300-bedded inpatient facility. It is the only dedicated psychiatric institute in the entire state of Andhra Pradesh, and offers services also to the neighboring states Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Telangana.

Co-Investigator	Profession	Contact Information
Himakar Pedapenki, MD, DPM	Professor & Head of Department, Government Hospital for Mental Care, Andhra Medical College, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh 530017	phimakar@gmail.com
Prof S. Radharani, DPM DNB(Psy)	Superintendent & Head of Unit II, Dept of Psychiatry	rrseepana@gmail.com
Prof Ramanand Satpaty, MD	Head of Unit III, Dept of Psychiatry	drramanand@yahoo.co.in
Prof V. Padma, MD	Head of Unit IV, Dept of Psychiatry	padmavadaparty@yahoo.co.in
Prof D. Vijayalaxmi, MD	Head of Unit V	dvjlakshmi@yahoo.in
Prof K. V. Ramireddy, MD	Head of Unit VI, Dept of Psychiatry	drvenkataramireddy@yahoo.com
Dr B.J.P. Mallika, MD	Assistant Professor, Unit I, Dept of Psychiatry	mallika_bypa@yahoo.com
Dr K. Sarada, MD	Assistant Professor, Unit II, Dept of Psychiatry
Dr Prabhath, MD	Assistant Professor, Unit III, Dept of Psychiatry	dr.prabhath99@gmail.com
Dr Suneeta, MD	Assistant Professor, Unit IV, Dept of Psychiatry	dwarsala1981@gmail.com
Dr Ravikumar, MD	Assistant Professor, Unit V, Dept of Psychiatry	dravikothyala@gmail.com
S. Kiran Kumar, MD	Assistant Professor, Unit VI, Dept of Psychiatry	kiran.singuru@gmail.com
Ravi Kumar, MD	Assistant Professor, Unit VI, Dept of Psychiatry	dravikothyala@gmail.com

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