MPI (Contact),  Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Dr. John P. John is a Professor of Psychiatry at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India. He underwent post-graduate training in Psychiatry at NIMHANS and post-doctoral training in MRI analyses at the Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA. He has been a faculty at NIMHANS since 2002. His area of clinical specialization is General Adult Psychiatry. His research interest is in linking multi-modal brain imaging techniques (sMRI, fMRI, MRS, DTI, EEG, ERP, PSG) and genomics in understanding the neurobiology of schizophrenia, dementia as well as of different cognitive states. He is the Faculty-in-Charge of the Multimodal Brain Image Analysis Laboratory (MBIAL) at the Neurobiology Research Center at NIMHANS. He is also the faculty-in-charge of the ADBS Neuroimaging Centre (ANC) and the Centre for Brain Mapping (CBM) of the Department of Psychiatry at NIMHANS. 

Dr. Venkatasubramaniam
MPI, Professor, Deptartment 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).

Dr. P. T. Sivakumar
Professor and Head ,Geriatric Clinic and Services, Department of Psychiatry


Dr. Y. C. Janardhan Reddy
Professor & 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.


Dr. Sanjeev Jain
Senior Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Sanjeev Jain is a clinician and a teacher, and researches the genetic correlates of psychiatric and neurological disease. He studied medicine at the Delhi University (Maulana Azad Medical College); and did his post-graduate studies at the NIMHANS. He has been a Commonwealth Fellow at Cambridge (UK), and the co-Director of a NIH-Fogarty training and mentorship program. He has provided the lead for, and participated in, several population and cohort studies, and also provides genetic testing for several neuro-degenerative disorders, as well as counseling services for these families. This work includes the genetics of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, Alzheimer’s disease and Huntington’s disease, as well as addiction and OCD. Over the past few years, discussions and collaboration with other colleagues at NIMHANS, the NCBS and inSTEM, have extended the research from the clinic, to the bench, using both clinical assessments (including MRI, EEG etc.) as well as tools of cellular and molecular biology, including WES,  iPSC and neuronal cell lines from individuals diagnosed to have psychiatric illnesses, and their affected and unaffected relatives. He has been a member of the committee for drafting the Mental Health Policy document for India; and is also an Adjunct Faculty at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (TIFR), Bangalore. His other interests include the history of mental health services in India, from the colonial to the contemporary period. This work has helped understand the interface between science and medicine, and social responses to mental illness in India. The work has been supported by various funding agencies in India (DBT, ICMR, DST and the CSIR), as also the Wellcome Trust, NIH (Fogarty) and the MRC-ICMR.


Dr. Mathew Varghese
Senior Professor, Deptartment of Psychiatry
St. John's Medical College, Bengaluru, India
Former Professor of Psychiatry and Head of Geriatric Clinic and Services
National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS)
Hosur Road, Bengaluru India
email: mat.varg@yahoo.com
contact: +91- 9845683954

Dr. Vivek Benegal
Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Dr Benegal is a Professor of Psychiatry at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India. He works in addiction medicine and the genetics of psychiatric disorders. He is interested in developmental behaviour, especially drug abuse and high risk behaviour in street and working children. He is also interested in child development issues and the use of developmentally appropriate aids for children's education and recreation. He  heads The Consortium on Vulnerability to Externalizing Disorders and Addictions (c-VEDA) project jointly with Professor Gunter Schumann, King’s College London (KCL; London, UK) funded by the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) and the Newton Grant from the Medical Research Council (MRC), United Kingdom.


Dr. Kandavel Thennarasu
Professor & Head Department of Biostatistics


Dr. Jitender Saini
Professor, Department of Neuro Imaging & Interventional Radiology


Dr. Anish V. Cherian
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatric Social Work
Dr. Anish V. Cherian is Assistant Professor of Psychiatric Social Work at NIMHANS, Bengaluru, India. His areas of research interest include public mental health, suicide prevention, stigma and OCD. He has funded project from Department of Science and Technology (DST), Indian Council of Social Science Research, Fogarty International (University of Florida) and co-investigator for Wellcome trust (University of Edinburgh) and Medical Research Council (King’s College, London UK) funded grants. He has published in national and international peer reviewed journals and is reviewer for various international journals. He is the member of International Association of Suicide Prevention (IASP).


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 .

Dr. Preeti Sinha,
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry
 

Dr. Biju Viswanath
Additional Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Dr Biju's intrests are in genetics & imaging-genomics, effects of psychotropics on neural stem cell lines, role of glial cells in psychiatric illnesses.
 

Dr. Subashchandrabose Chinnathambi,
Additional Professor, Department of Neurochemistry
Dr Subhaschandrabose has keen interests in physiopathology of neurodegenerative disorders, Tau-Cytoskeleton, Tau-GPCR, Purinergic and Chemokine receptors, Tau-Lipids, Animal models, Neuropharmacology, Translational research.


Dr. Ravikesh Tripathi
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology


Dr. Gokulakrishnan Associate Professor, Deptartment of Neurochemistry
Dr. Gokulakrishnan possesses domain expertise in biomarker research and disease biology and develops precision intervention strategies. He is presently working on certain unique programmes such as understanding the role of  gut microbiome, DNA Methylome biomarkers at the interspace of Neuro-psychiatry and metabolic disorders ; novel biomarker(s) identification for early disease prediction


Dr. Reeteka Sud
Senior Scientist (Project)



Dr. Krishnaprasad Muliyala
Professor, Deparment of Psychiatry