LinkedIn | Google Scholar Back Back to People Page Back Co-Investigator Team 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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Back Back to People Page Back Clinical Team Dr. Swarna Buddha Nayok ​ Clinician Scientist- equivalent to Assistant Professor in Psychiatry (Project/ Research) Swarna Buddha Nayok has completed DPM & MD in psychiatry, and done Ph.D. in Clinical Neuroscience (submitted), he is currently in CBM as a Clinician Scientist. His fields of interest are severe mental illness, media & psychiatry ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3173-4248

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Google Scholar Back Back to People Page Back Investigator Team Dr Venkatasubramanian G ​ Professor, Department of Psychiatry Dr. Venkatasubramanian Ganesan (Venkat) is a Professor of Psychiatry & Consultant Psychiatrist at Schizophrenia Clinic & The Metabolic Clinic in Psychiatry at the National Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore. He co-ordinates the InSTAR Program for Schizophrenia (www.instar-program.org) as well as the WISER Neuromodulation Program (www.wiser-program.org) at NIMHANS. His areas of research interest include: Clinical Neurobiology & Metabolic Abnormalities in Schizophrenia, Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) in Psychiatry, and Brain Imaging in Psychiatry. He heads the Translational Psychiatry Laboratory at the Neurobiology Research Centre, NIMHANS (www.transpsychlab.org).

LinkedIn | Google Scholar Back Back to People Page Back Co-Investigator Team Dr Urvaksh M Mehta ​ Additional Professor, Department of Psychiatry Urvakhsh Mehta practices in Bengaluru, India. Mehta and is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. Their top areas of expertise are Schizophrenia, COVID-19, Bipolar Disorder (BPD), and Delirium Tremens. Their clinical research consists of co-authoring 119 peer reviewed articles in the past 15 years.

LinkedIn Back Back to People Page Back Co-Investigator Team Dr Suhas Ganesh ​ Clinician Scientist, MQ: Transforming Mental Health - Fellow, Department of Psychiatry

Google Scholar Back Back to People Page Back Co-Investigator Team Dr Shyam Sundar ​ Professor, Department of Psychiatry Dr. Shyam Sundar A is an Associate Professor in psychiatry at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India. He completed his MBBS from Coimbatore Medical College, Tamil Nadu in 2002 and his postgraduate training in psychiatry at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in 2006. He worked in AIIMS, New Delhi and Christian Medical College, Vellore before joining NIMHANS as a faculty in the department of psychiatry in 2011. He has been part of the obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) clinic since then. His areas of interest include obsessive-compulsive disorder, bipolar disorder, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). He was involved in a research project on the use of rTMS for OCD. He has published in many national and international scientific journals and authored various book chapters on psychiatry. He recently completed a fellowship in bipolar disorders from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

LinkedIn Back Back to People Page Back Lab Team Dr Kathirvel K ​ Project Scientist (Lab) Kathirvel Kandasamy, is the Project Scientist in Neurobiology Research Centre at the National Institute of Mental Health and NeuroSciences. He graduated from Bharathidasan University with Master of Technology in Bioinformatics and then earned his Ph.D. in 2023 from SASTRA University, studying microbial keratitis with advanced NGS techniques. His research interest integrates Neurobiology, Human genetics and Bioinformatics to study Neurodevelopmental disorders.

ResearchGate Back Back to People Page Back Investigator Team Dr Meera Purushottam ​ Senior scientific officer, Department of Psychiatry Dr Meera is Senior Scientific Officer in the Molecular genetics Laboratory where she leads projects on molecular genetics of neuropsychiatric illness. Genetic epidemiology of triplet repeat disorders and pharmacogenetics of psychiatric diseases along with understanding biological phenomenon such as telomere length and mitochondrial copy number maintenance in the context of neuropsychiatric illness has been an important focus of the laboratory. She has a special interest in the role of epigenetics in mental health particularly alcohol addiction. She has also initiated genetic testing of patient samples for several neurological disorders such as spinocerebellar ataxia, Huntington’s disease, spinal muscular atrophy and Duchenne muscular dystrophy .

LinkedIn | Google Scholar Back Back to People Page Back Co-Investigator Team Dr PT Sivakumar Dementia Professor, Department of Psychiatry

Google Scholar Back Back to People Page Back Co-Investigator Team Dr Muralidharan Kesavan ​ Professor, Department of Psychiatry