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  1. Sri Lankan School Student and Teacher Perspectives of Adolescent Mental Health and Its Determinants: A Qualitative Exploration
  2. The Rise of 'Self-Diagnosis' in Mental Health
  3. Scroll control: Should Sri Lanka enforce a social media ban for minors?
  4. Burden of 375 diseases and injuries, risk-attributable burden of 88 risk factors, and healthy life expectancy in 204 countries and territories, including 660 subnational locations, 1990–2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study...
  5. Global burden of 292 causes of death in 204 countries and territories and 660 subnational locations, 1990–2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023
  6. Global age-sex-specific all-cause mortality and life expectancy estimates for 204 countries and territories and 660 subnational locations, 1950–2023: a demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023
  7. GBD 2023 Cardiovascular Disease Collaborators
  8. Attention deficit disorder among Sri Lankan university students: have we turned a blind eye to a treatable condition?
  9. Drawings: A window to children’s soul
  10. India's mental health budget 2025 needs urgent reform
  11. Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Approach and Suicide Prevention: A Qualitative Narrative Review
  12. Nature, prevalence and determinants of mental health problems experienced by adolescents in south Asia: a systematic review
  13. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RESILIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH IN ADOLESCENTS IN NON-WESTERN CULTURES : A SHORT NARRRATIVE REVIEW OF LITERATURE
  14. Auditory and visual hallucinations in an adolescent following orthotopic liver transplantation
  15. Silver Russell syndrome: A suspected syndromic child in Sri Lanka presenting with recurrent head-banging associated with force-feeding
  16. Suicide among psychiatrists: From healers to seekers of mental health care
  17. Factors behind suicides in Muslim countries: a global ecological study
  18. Early career psychiatrists' perspectives on managing stigma and discrimination related to suicide
  19. Climate change and Indigenous mental health in Australia: In the aftermath of the defeat of the Voice referendum
  20. The effectiveness of telehealth interventions in suicide prevention: A systematic review and meta-analysis
  21. Prevention of suicides associated with global warming: perspectives from early career psychiatrists
  22. Self-Harm in Children and Adolescents Who Presented at Emergency Units During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An International Retrospective Cohort Study
  23. Mental health insurance reform in India
  24. Survey on the psychosocial impact of COVID-19 on the Sri Lankan mental healthcare system and the needs of frontline healthcare workers in the post-covid era
  25. Prevalence and associated factors of depression in Sri Lanka: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  26. Psychometric properties of the Sinhala version of the Swanson, Nolan, and Pelham rating scale (SNAP-IV) Parent Form in healthy children and children with ADHD
  27. What is stopping Early Career Psychiatrists (ECPs) from doing research in Sri Lanka?
  28. A possible link between air pollution and suicide?
  29. The alarming development of online gambling in Iranian women during the COVID-19 pandemic
  30. Exploring the Link Between Feeling Alone and Suicidal Thoughts: A Comprehensive Overview.
  31. Gender Dysphoria and Morbid Sexual Jealousy in an Adolescent
  32. International collaboration to address the inevitable mental health burden in Sri Lanka in the context of the economic crisis
  33. Assessment of mental health problems among adolescents in Sri Lanka: Findings from the cross‐sectional Global School‐based Health Survey
  34. Facebook and Suicidal Behaviour: User Experiences of Suicide Notes, Live-Streaming, Grieving and Preventive Strategies—A Scoping Review
  35. Mental health services in Syria: Challenges and opportunities
  36. Facebook and Suicidal Behaviour: User Experiences of Suicide Notes, Live-streaming, Grieving and Preventive Strategies. A Scoping Review.
  37. Relationship between childhood sexual abuse and suicidal behaviour in South Asian countries: A scoping review
  38. Telepsychiatry for conflict-affected settings: Feasibility, ethics, barriers and prospects
  39. Exposure to violence and the presence of suicidal and self-harm behaviour predominantly in Asian females: scoping review
  40. Role of pets and animal assisted therapy in suicide prevention
  41. Suicide in the context of infodemic during COVID-19 pandemic: A global perspective
  42. Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in a lower-middle income country: A survey from Sri Lanka
  43. Children, adolescent, and youth mental health in Sri Lanka in the context of recent violence, COVID-19, and economic crisis: A call for action
  44. Mental health services in conflict areas – An experience from Libya
  45. Suicide, Stigma and COVID-19: A Call for Action From Low and Middle Income Countries
  46. Over‐the‐counter drug use in suicidal/self‐harm behavior: Scoping review
  47. Women in Afghanistan: a call for action
  48. Factors influencing a career in child and adolescent psychiatry: Views of psychiatry trainees in Sri Lanka
  49. Libya: mental health challenges a decade after the Arab spring
  50. Novel report on congenital talipes equinovarus (CTEV) following olanzapine exposure during pregnancy: case report and short review
  51. A new paradigm in psychiatry: International research and clinical collaborations of early-career psychiatrists
  52. Depressive morbidity among persons with spinal cord injury in Sri Lanka and the diagnostic utility of the Centre for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale
  53. The children of Afghanistan need urgent mental health support
  54. Cyber victimization during the COVID ‐19 pandemic: A syndemic looming large
  55. The disquietude of clozapine continuation during the COVID‐19 pandemic
  56. Randomised, placebo-controlled trial on topiramate add-on therapy for weight reduction and symptomatology in overweight/obese persons with schizophrenia
  57. Challenges in mental health and psychosocial care in conflict-affected low- and middle-income countries
  58. Armed assault of Russia on Ukraine and looming danger on regional mental health: a call for action by psychiatrists in conflict settings
  59. Psychiatry in Kashmir: a call for action
  60. Experience of required foreign specialist training: The lived experiences of Sri Lankan trainee child and adolescent psychiatrists in Australia
  61. Afghanistan: Decades of collective trauma, ongoing humanitarian crises, Taliban rulers, and mental health of the displaced population
  62. Asian journal of psychiatry and psychiatry in Asia: Time to reconsider human resources to represent cultural diversity in Asia
  63. Psychological wellbeing and mental health amongst medical undergraduates: A descriptive study assessing more than 1,000 medical students in Sri Lanka
  64. Revisiting the ATP 30: the Factor Structure of a Scale Measuring Medical Students’ Attitudes Towards Psychiatry
  65. Parental perspectives on the lived experience of having a child with autism spectrum disorder in Sri Lanka
  66. KAP-COVIDGLOBAL: a multinational survey of the levels and determinants of public knowledge, attitudes and practices towards COVID-19
  67. Cross-Sectional Study on the Association Between Social Media Use and Body Image Dissatisfaction Among Adolescents
  68. Mental health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
  69. The living being dead: Cotard syndrome presenting as a dead spirit
  70. Clozapine induced severe weight loss in resistant schizophrenia managed with risperidone add-on therapy
  71. Frontal lobe neuropathology presenting to Mental Health Services
  72. Dose-dependent clozapine-induced skin picking and self-injurious behaviour in treatment-resistant schizophrenia
  73. Emotional and behavioural dysregulation in children of health care workers in the frontline of COVID-19 response in Sri Lanka
  74. Early phase child and adolescent psychiatry response after mass trauma: Lessons learned from the Easter Sunday attack in Sri Lanka
  75. Psychological morbidity among children with transfusion dependent β-thalassaemia and their parents in Sri Lanka
  76. Diagnostic overlap between adolescent affective instability in borderline personality and juvenile bipolar disorder in Sri Lanka
  77. Collaborative networking between regional child mental health, paediatric and educational services in Gippsland, Australia: An online survey
  78. Aspects of Moral Character, Civic Purpose, Social Identity in relevance to the Psychological Well-being of Adolescents in Sri Lanka
  79. Masked presentations of dissociative disorder among Sri Lankan adolescents
  80. Retained primitive reflexes in children, clinical implications and targeted home-based interventions
  81. Immediate-Release Methylphenidate–Associated Recurrent Nasal Bleeding in Siblings
  82. Gender disparity as a threat to the mental well-being of young Sri Lankan women
  83. Suicidal ideation in gay adolescents in the context of cultural stigma and criminalized homosexuality in Sri Lanka
  84. Socio-cultural and neurobiological perspectives of betel nut chewing in schizophrenia
  85. Confluence of Western Psychotherapy and Religious Teachings in Mental Healthcare of an Asian Buddhist Community: Sri Lanka
  86. How the West can help to develop mental health services in resource-limited settings
  87. Delayed anxiety and depressive morbidity among dengue patients in a multi-ethnic urban setting: first report from Sri Lanka
  88. The use of aripiprazole for tic disorders in children and adolescents and implications for resource limited settings in the developing world
  89. Reincarnation Type Presentations of Children with High-Functioning Autism in Sri Lanka
  90. Commentary: Measuring Depression in a Non-Western War-Affected Displaced Population: Measurement Equivalence of the Beck Depression Inventory
  91. Subspecialisation in Postgraduate Psychiatry and Implications for a Resource-Limited Specialised Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service
  92. High-functioning autism in a Sri Lankan youth with Langer–Giedion syndrome
  93. Transcultural factors related to depressive psychopathology in Sri Lankan migrants living in Australia
  94. Racism Toward Mental Health Workers
  95. Topiramate’s effectiveness on weight reduction in overweight/obese persons with schizophrenia: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
  96. A comparative study on medical comorbidities among children with autism spectrum disorder and controls in a children’s hospital
  97. Zoophilia in an adolescent with high-functioning autism from Sri Lanka
  98. Near-Death Experiences in a Multi-religious Hospital Population in Sri Lanka
  99. Unusual sexual behaviour associated with female depression
  100. A one year follow up study of persistent motor tic disorder treated with risperidone in a children’s hospital in Sri Lanka
  101. Fluoxetine-Induced Severe Oral Ulceration in a 13-Year-Old Girl
  102. Child and youth mental health in post-war Sri Lanka
  103. Internet Gaming Disorder among Adolescents
  104. SERIOUS BODILY HARM RELATED TO OBSESSIONS FROM SRI LANKA
  105. Association of duration of untreated psychosis and functional level, in first episode of schizophrenia attendingan outpatient clinic in Sri Lanka
  106. Association of family history of bipolar disorder with risk of violence in inpatient mania: a cohort study
  107. Clinical presentation and comorbidities of obsessive compulsive disorders in children and adolescents presenting to a tertiary care hospital in Sri Lanka
  108. Prolonged Delirium in a Tertiary care psychiatry unit in Sri Lanka
  109. A comparative study of subjective experiences related to driving among outpatient psychotropic users and controls in Ragama, Sri Lanka
  110. Female offenders with psychiatric disorders in Sri Lanka
  111. Tardive dyskinesia in an 8-year old child