Vijay Danivas JUNIOR RESIDENT, DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES, BANGALORE MAY,2012 TO PRESENT

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1 Vijay Danivas PHONE Profile I am a hardworking, energetic man who can go that extra mile to achieve what is needed. I have a keen interest in clinical care and in answering the research questions arising during the process. I enjoy cooking, trying out different cuisines, travelling whenever I get a break from the work. Experience JUNIOR RESIDENT, DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES, BANGALORE MAY,2012 TO PRESENT Currently working as a postgraduate resident as part of MD Psychiatry. RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, TRANSLATIONAL PSYCHIATRY LAB, NEUROBIOLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES, BANGALORE. SEP 2011 TO APR 2012 Welcome Trust- Department of Biotechnology (WELCOME-DBT Indian Alliance) funded project titled Structural & Functional Connectivity of Hippocampus in Schizophrenia: Evaluation of Neuroimmunological & Neurotrophic Factors Interactions using Diffusion Tensor Imaging & functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies under PI- Dr. G. Venkatasubramanian Sep 2011 to Apr 2012 JUNIOR RESIDENT, DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY,MANDYA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES, MANDYA JUNE, 2010 TO SEP, 2011 Job involved independent management of patients on inpatient and outpatient basis, attending to referrals and engaging theory and clinics classes for undergraduate students.

2 Education National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India - Diploma in Psychiatry,DPM, 2010 JSS Medical College (Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences), Mysore, India - Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, MBBS, 2007 License to practice medicine: Registered under Karnataka Medical Council, 2007 onwards Reg no. Professional Memberships Indian Psychiatric Society Clinical skills: Assessment and management of spectra of clinical situations covering all psychiatric disorders Electroconvulsive therapy, repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Pentothal interviews Emergency and Acute management of violent and uncooperative patients. Research Skills: Identification and recruitment of the patients for the research, Assessing patients using standardised scales like SANS, SAPS, PANSS, YBOCS, AIMS, assessing using computerised tools- TRENDS, Learned Irrelevance etc. Recruiting healthy controls for the research projects. Obtaining written informed consents. Neuroimaging research techniques - acquisition data for structural and functional MRI studies, DTI.

3 Image analysis techniques: Manual morphometric studies of the brain using MRICro, 3D Slicer, Multitracer etc., Automated morphometric studies using Voxel Based Morphometry (VBM) for Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM) fmri analysis using Voxel Based Morphometry (VBM) for Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM) Eye movement Research: acquisition of data for Eye tracking research and its analyses. Research Projects: Clinical and Neural correlates of EyeMovement Abnormalities in Antipsychotic naive Schizophrenia. (On going as part of MD Thesis) Awards: SS Jayaram Award, Annual conference of Indian Psychiatric Society- South Zone, Madurai, India, Oct 2012 Best Poster Award in 1st Joint Conference of NIMHANS and RCPsych, NIMRCPSYCON 2010, Bangalore, India, March 2010 D S Raju Best Post Graduate Research Award in Annual Conference of Indian Psychiatric Society, South Zone IPSOCON 2009, Trivandrum, India, Oct 2009 Dr. H S Subramanya Memorial Award for the best postgraduate research, Annual Conference of Indian Psychiatric Society, Karnataka Chapter, KANCIPS 2009, Bangalore, India, Sep 2009 Publications: Danivas V, Behere RV, Rao NP, Varambally S, Venkatasubramanian G, Gangadhar BN. ECT In Treatment of Delirious Mania: A Report of 2 Cases. Journal of Electro Convulsive Therapy 2010;26(4):278-9 Danivas V, Kalmady S, Arasappa R, Behere RV, Rao NP, Venkatasubramanian G, Gangadhar BN. Inferior Parietal Lobule Volume & Schneiderian First Rank Symptoms in Antipsychotic-naïve Schizophrenia: A 3 Tesla MRI Study. Indian Journal of Psychological medicine 2009; 31: 82-87

4 Rao NP, Danivas V, Venkatasubramanian G, Behere RV, Gangadhar BN. Comorbid Bipolar disorder and Usher syndrome. Primary Care Companion to the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 2010;12(2):e1 Vinay H.R., Danivas V, Bindu M. Kutty, Preeti Kandasamy, Tejas S. Golhar, Pradeep Palaniappan, Sathish C. Girimaji, Shekhar P. Seshadri, Shoba Srinath. Case series of three children and adolescents with periodic hypersomnia. Journal of Indian Assoc. Child and Adolescent Mental Health 2010; 6(4): Danivas V, Rao NP, Venkatasubramanian G, Sertraline & Clonazepam in Palatal Myoclonus. Indian Journal of Medical Sciences (in press) Danivas V, Rohini Thimmaiah, Muralidharan Kesavan, Meera Purushotham, Uday Muthane, Sanjeev Jain. The role of Lithium in Huntington s Disease. Indian Journal of Psychiatry (in press) Arasappa R, Danivas V, Venkatasubramanian G, Choroid plexus papilloma presenting as Schizophrenia: A case report. Journal of Neurosurgery (in press) Presentations: Vijay Danivas, Rohini Thimmaiah, Muralidharan Kesavan, Meera Purushotham, Uday Muthane, Sanjeev Jain. The role of Lithium in Huntington s Disease. Poster presented in 1st Joint Conference of NIMHANS and RCPSCY, NIMRCSYCON 2010, Bangalore, India in March Vinay H Ramalingaiah, Vijay Danivas, Preeti Kandasamy, Tejas Golhar, Pradeep Palaniappan, Bindu M Kutty, Sathish Chandra Girimaji, Shekhar P Seshadri, Shoba Srinath. Case series of three adolescents with Periodic hypersomnia Poster presented in 1st Joint Conference of NIMHANS and RCPSCY, NIMRCSYCON 2010, Bangalore, India in March 2010 Vijay Danivas, Rishikesh V Behere, Rao N P, Shivarama Varambally, G Venkatasubramanian, B N Gangadhar. Delirious Mania: A Report Of Two Cases From A Psychiatric Inpatient Unit Poster presented in Annual Conference 0f Indian Psychiatric Society ANCIPS 2009 held in Agra, India in January Vijay Danivas, Rao N P, R V Behere, Ganesan Venkatasubramanian, B N Gangadhar. Comorbid Bipolar disorder and Usher syndrome: Molecular links to

5 pathogenesis. Poster presented in Annual Conference 0f Indian Psychiatric Society ANCIPS 2009 held in Agra, India in January Vijay Danivas, Rao NP, Venkatasubramanian G,. Sertraline & Clonazepam In Palatal Myoclonus. Paper presented in Annual Conference of Indian Psychiatric Society South Zone IPSOCON 2008 held in Coimbatore, India in September 2008 Conferences/ Workshops attended: Postgraduate workshop on Metabolic disorders in psychosis: assessment and Management organised by The Metabolic Clinic, NIMHANS, Bangalore on March Attended workshop on Chronic Pain Management under the guidance of Prof. S K Chaturvedi, Prof & Head, Department of Psychiatry, NIMHANS, Bangalore. Attended Endophenotypes in Psychiatry presided by Dr. Keshavan Matcheri, Professor of Psychiatry, Pittsburgh university, USA, in January 2009 Attended workshop on Culture Psychiatry Interface under the guidance of Dr. Dinesh Bhugra, President, Royal college of Psychiatry, UK in Mar 2009 Conference on Psychopharmacology held at October, Psychotherapy Psychotherapy training for years, under the guidance of Dr. Jagadisha T, Additional Professor, NIMHANS with specific emphasis on Cognitive behavioural therapy, Behavioural therapy, Supportive therapy, Interpersonal psychotherapy & Psychodynamic psychotherapy Cognitive Behavioural therapy for Specific Phobia submitted to Department of psychiatry, NIMHANS. Intensive residential therapy for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

6 Extra-curricular Achievements: NIH web based training course Protecting human research Participants on 20/09/2011 [ Certificate no ] Prizes in the quiz competitions Deep Brain Stimulation and Mindbenders held by Dept of Psychiatry, NIMHANS, Bangalore for 2 successive years 2008 and 2009.

Designation : Assistant Professor, DST-Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) faculty,

Curriculum Vitae of Dr. Janardhanan C Narayanaswamy Qualification : M.B.B.S, M.D in psychiatry Age : 13.09.1981 Designation : Assistant Professor, DST-Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research