Awards

Department of Science And Technology - Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) faculty award- 2012 for Dr. Janardhanan Narayanaswamy.
International Travel Fellowship Award 2012 - Society of Biological Psychiatry, Philadelphia, USA. Dr. Mahavir Agarwal
Dr. M. Vythialingam Memorial Oration Award 2012. Dr. G. Venkatasubramanian. Oration Title: Schizophrenia as a Metabolic Brain Disorder – A Clinician’s Perspective.
Dr. S.S. Jayaram Award for the best research paper award for the year 2012. Danivas V, Kalmady SV, Venkatasubramanian G, Gangadhar BN. Thalamic Abnormalities in Antipsychotic-naïve Schizophrenia. Annual Conference of Indian Psychiatry Society - South Zone 2012, Madurai
Dr. D.S. Raju Award for the best postgraduate research for the year 2012. Agarwal SM, Jose D, Baruah U, Shivakumar V, Kalmady SV, Venkatasubramanian G, Mataix-Cols D, Janardhan Reddy YC. Neurohemodynamic Correlates of Washing Symptoms in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Pilot fMRI Study Using Symptom Provocation Paradigm. Annual Conference of Indian Psychiatry Society - South Zone 2012, Madurai.
Dr. H S Subramanya Memorial Award for the best postgraduate research for the year 2012. Agarwal SM, Jose D, Baruah U, Shivakumar V, Kalmady SV, Venkatasubramanian G, Mataix-Cols D, Janardhan Reddy YC. Neurohemodynamic Correlates of Washing Symptoms in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Pilot fMRI Study Using Symptom Provocation Paradigm. Mahavir et al Annual Conference of Indian Psychiatry Society – Karnataka Branch, Mangalore.
National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences Silver Jubilee Award 2012 for the best outgoing student of M.D. in Psychiatry. Dr. Eesha Sharma.
Wellcome Trust / DBT India Alliance Senior Fellowship 2011. Dr. G. Venkatasubramanian.
Senior Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award 2011, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. Dr. G. Venkatasubramanian.
Poona Psychiatrists Association Award-II 2011 for the best published research paper, Annual Conference of Indian Psychiatry Society, Jaipur, India.
Dr. H S Subramanya Memorial Award 2011 for the best postgraduate research. Virupaksha H S, Sunil V Kalmady, VenkataramShivakumar, RashmiArasappa, Ganesan Venkatasubramanian, Bangalore N. Gangadhar. Volume & Asymmetry Abnormalities of Insula in Antipsychotic-naïve Schizophrenia: A 3-Tesla MRI Study. Annual Conference of Indian Psychiatry Society - Karnataka Chapter, Mysore
Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) grant under the financial assistance to MD/MS/DM.MCH thesis programme 2011. Thesis student – DrS. Mahavir Agarwal.
Dr. D.S. Raju Award for the best postgraduate research for the year 2011. Virupaksha H S, Sunil V Kalmady, VenkataramShivakumar, RashmiArasappa, Ganesan Venkatasubramanian, Bangalore N. Gangadhar. Volume & Asymmetry Abnormalities of Insula in Antipsychotic-naïve Schizophrenia: A 3-Tesla MRI Study. Annual Conference of Indian Psychiatry Society - South Zone, Hyderabad
Samuel Gershon award for Junior Investigator 2011. Rao NP, Jayaram N, Vishwanath V, Kalmady S, Venkatasubramanian G, Gangadhar BN. Antithetical relative emotional interference in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia: An optimized emotional stroop study. 9th International Conference on Bipolar disorder- June 2011, Pittsburgh, USA.
Young Scientist award 2011. Jayaram N, Vishwanath V, Rao NP, Venkatasubramanian G, Gangadhar BN. Differential emotion processing abnormalities in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder- An optimized emotional stroop study. 10th World Congress of Biological Psychiatry- June 2011, Prague, Czech Republic.
International travel grant 2011 by Indian Council of Medical research. Sharma E, Kalmady S, Rajendran V, Rao NP, Venkatasubramanian G, Gangadhar BN. Entorhinal cortex volume in antipsychotic-naïve schizophrenia. 10th World Congress of Biological Psychiatry - June 2011, Prague, Czech republic.
International travel grant 2011 by Indian Council of Medical research. Jayaram N, Vishwanath V, Rao NP, Venkatasubramanian G, Gangadhar BN. Differential emotion processing abnormalities in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder- An optimized emotional stroop study. 10th World Congress of Biological Psychiatry - June 2011, Prague, Czech Republic.
Bhagawat Award 2011. Behere RV. Dorsolateral Prefrontal Lobe Volume and Neurological Soft Signs as Predictors of Clinical, Social and Functional Outcome in Schizophrenia: A Longitudinal Study. Annual national conference of the Indian Psychiatry Society -2011, New Delhi, India.
ICMR international travel grant 2011. Shivakumar V, Venkatasubramanian G, Kalmady S, Kothari S, Rao NP, Behere RV, Gangadhar BN. Pars Triangularis Volume Abnormalities in Antipsychotic-naïve Schizophrenia. The 16th Biennial Winter workshop in psychosis-2011 - January 2011, Innsbruck, Austria.
Young Investigator Travel Award 2011. Kalmady SV, Venkatasubramanian G, Arasappa R, Gautham S, Rao NP, Behere RV, Ravi V, Gangadhar BN. Effect of Interleukin-6 on Hippocampal Shape in Antipsychotic Naïve Schizophrenia. The 2nd Asian Congress on Schizophrenia Research - February 2011, Seoul, Korea.
International Travel Award 2011. Kalmady SV, Venkatasubramanian G, Arasappa R, Gautham S, Rao NP, Behere RV, Ravi V, Gangadhar BN. Studying Brain & Behavior in Schizophrenia: Multivariate Surface Analysis of Hippocampus. Annual INCF Congress Neuroinformatics 2011- September 2011, Boston, USA.
Best poster presentation - Third prize. Sivakumar PT, Kalmady SV, Reddy NN, Rao NP, Venkatasubramanian G, Bharath S, Kovoor JME, Jain S, Varghese M. Volumetric analysis of Hippocampal subregions in late onset Depression: A 3-Tesla magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study. The 8th International Congress of the International Neuropsychiatry Association - September 2011, Chennai, India.
Department of Science & Technology (DST) Travel Grant 2011 from Government of India. Kalmady SV, Venkatasubramanian G, Arasappa R, Gautham S, Rao NP, Behere RV, Gangadhar BN. Clinical Correlates of Hippocampal Shape Abnormalities in Antipsychotic Naïve Schizophrenia. Society of Biological Psychiatry 66th Annual Meeting- May 2011, San Francisco, California.
World Psychiatric Association Early career fellowship award 2011 to Janardhanan C. Narayanaswamy. Selected as Early career psychiatrists’ fellow at the World Psychiatric Association Thematic Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2011.
International Travel Fellowship Award 2011 to Janardhanan C. Narayanaswamy to attend annual meeting of Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP) 2011 , scheduled on May 12-14, 2011 in San Francisco, CA.
Junior Investigator 2011. Janardhanan C. Narayanaswamy selected as one among 24 young researchers to participate to the Sixteenth Annual Research Colloquium for Junior Investigators (selected for the section on research on Mood and Anxiety Disorders from Neurobiology to Epidemiology and Treatment), May 15, 2011.
Best paper award 2010. Rao NP, Kalmady S, Arasappa R, Venkatasubramanian G, Gangadhar BN. Clinical correlates of Thalamus nuclei volume in Antipsychotic-naïve Schizophrenia: A 3 Tesla MRI Study. 7th Joint conference of EEG Clinical Neuro Science and International Society for NeuroImaging in Psychiatry - September 2010, Istanbul, Turkey
International travel grant 2010, Council for scientific and industrial research. Rao NP, Kalmady S, Arasappa R, Venkatasubramanian G, Gangadhar BN. Clinical correlates of Thalamus nuclei volume in Antipsychotic-naïve Schizophrenia: A 3 Tesla MRI Study. 7th Joint conference of EEG Clinical Neuro Science and International Society for NeuroImaging in Psychiatry - September 2010, Istanbul, Turkey
International travel grant 2010, Indian Council of Medical research 2010. Rao NP, Venkatasubramanian G, Kalmady SV, Behere RV, Arasappa R, Gangadhar BN. Neuroanatomical Correlates of Dermatoglyphic Complexity Index in Antipsychotic-naïve Schizophrenia. 2nd biennial conference of Schizophrenia International Research Society - April 2010, Florence, Italy.
Early Career Investigator Award from Schizophrenia Research Institute 2010. Behere RV, Venkatasubramanian G, Arasappa R, Gangadhar BN. Enhanced Emotional Threat Perception and Right Cerebral Hemispheric Dysfunction in Antipsychotic Naïve Schizophrenia. Asia-Pacific forum at the 11th Biennial Australasian Schizophrenia Conference - September 2010, Sydney Australia.
International Travel Award 2010 from Indian Council of Medical Research awarded to DrRishikesh V Behere to attend the 11th Biennial Australasian Schizophrenia Conference 2010, Sydney, Australia.
Department of Science and Technology India Travel award 2010 to Janardhanan C Narayanaswamy to attend International Forum for Mood And Anxiety disorders, Vienna, 17-19 November 2010.
Best poster award 2010 at the international forum for mood and anxiety disorders held in Vienna, 17-19 November 2010 to Janardhanan C Narayanaswamy, for the poster titled – “Is poor insight OCD a distinct subtype?”
Hong-Kong psychiatric society and Royal college of Psychiatry Travel award 2010 to Janardhanan C. Narayanaswamy to attend the 2nd HK-UK international conference in Hong-Kong, December 11-13, 2010
SS Jayaram award 2010 for best paper by young investigators to Janardhanan C Narayanaswamy at IPSOCON – Indian Psychiatric Society south zone conference held in Oct 2010.
Indian National Science Academy Young Scientist Medal 2009 in the field of biomedical sciences. Dr. G. Venkatasubramanian.
Young Psychiatrist Award 2009 by the Indian Psychiatric Society. Dr. G. Venkatasubramanian.
Poona Psychiatrists Association Award-I 2009 for the best published paper by the Indian Psychiatric Society. Dr. G. Venkatasubramanian.
Aristotle’s research award 2009. Rao NP, Venkatasubramanian G, Arasappa R, Gangadhar BN. Relationship between corpus callosum abnormalities and schneiderian first-rank symptoms in antipsychotic-naive schizophrenia patients. 4th International conference on Brain and Behaviour - December 2009, Thessaloniki, Greece
International young investigator award 2009. Rao NP, Arasappa R, Reddy NN, Venkatasubramanian G, Gangadhar BN. Antithetical asymmetry in schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorder: A line bisection study. International congress on schizophrenia research - March 2009, San Diego, USA.
National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences Silver Jubilee Award 2009 for the best outgoing student of M.D. in Psychiatry. Dr. Janardhanan C. Narayanaswamy.
International Young investigator award from International Congress on Schizophrenia Research, Dallas-Texas USA 2009. Behere RV, Venkatasubramanian G, Arasappa R, Reddy N, Gangadhar BN. Effect of risperidone treatment on facial emotion recognition deficits in antipsychotic naïve schizophrenia. International Congress on Schizophrenia Research - 2009 San Diego USA.
International Travel Support Award from Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, February 2009 awarded to Dr. Rishikesh V Behere to attend International Congress on Schizophrenia Research - 2009 San Diego USA.
Young Psychiatrist Travel award from the Asian Federation of Psychiatric Associations. Behere RV, Venkatasubramanian G, Arasappa R, Reddy N, Gangadhar BN. Schneiderian first rank symptoms and facial emotion recognition deficits in antipsychotic naïve schizophrenia: implications for social threat perception model. 2nd World Congress of Asian Psychiatry - Taipei Taiwan, November 2009.
Dr SS Jayaram award 2009. Behere RV, Kalmady S, Venkatasubramanian G, Gangadhar BN. Orbitofrontal cortex volume deficits in antipsychotic naïve schizophrenia: A 3 tesla MRI study. Annual National Conference of Indian Psychiatric Society South Zone IPSOCON 2009, Thiruvananthapuram, India.
Dr DS Raju Memorial Award 2009. Danivas V, Kalmady S, Arasappa R, Behere RV, Rao NP, Venkatasubramanian G, GangadharBN. Inferior parietal lobule volume and schneiderian first-rank symptoms in Antipsychotic-Naive schizophrenia: A 3-Tesla MRI study. Annual National Conference of Indian Psychiatric Society South Zone IPSOCON - 2009, Thiruvananthapuram, India.
Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) travel award 2009 to Janardhanan C Narayanaswamy to attend the WPA thematic conference, Istanbul, Turkey.
Platinum Jubilee Young Scientist Award 2008 by the National Academy of Sciences, India. Dr. G. Venkatasubramanian.
Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award 2008 by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. Dr. G. Venkatasubramanian.
Marfatia Award for the year 2008 for best original research paper. Venkatasubramanian G, Puthumana DTK, Jayakumar PN, Gangadhar BN. A functional MRI study of neurohaemodynamic abnormalities during emotion processing in subjects at high risk for schizophrenia. presented in the Annual National Conference of the Indian Psychiatric Society 2008 [ANCIPS 2008] held in Kolkata, India.
Dr. D.S. Raju Memorial Award 2008. Bharadwaj B, Arasappa R, Behere RV, Venkatasubramanian G, Jayakumar PN, Gangadhar BN. Emotion Recognition deficits in antipsychotic naïve schizophrenia. Annual Conference of the Indian Psychiatric Society - South Zone – 2008, Coimbatore, India.
Dr S. S. Jayaram Award, 2008. Arasappa R, Rao NP, Venkatasubramanian G, Jayakumar PN, Gangadhar BN. Structural Cerebellar Abnormalities in Antipsychotic-naïve Schizophrenia: Evidence for Cognitive Dysmetria. 41st Indian Psychiatric Conference South Zone - October 2008, Coimbatore, India.
National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences Silver Jubilee Award 2008 for the best outgoing student of M.D. in Psychiatry. Dr. Naren P. Rao.
Indian Council of Medical Research [ICMR] Tilak Venkoba Rao Award 2007 for research contribution in Psychiatry. Dr. G. Venkatasubramanian.
Bhagwat Award 2007 for the best original research paper presented in the Annual National Conference of the Indian Psychiatric Society. Dr. G. Venkatasubramanian.
Dr. D.S. Raju Memorial Award 2007. Behere RV, RaghunandanVNGP,Venkatasubramanian G, Subbakrishna DK, Jayakumar PN, Gangadhar BN. TRENDS: A Tool for Recognition of Emotions in Neuropsychiatric Disorders. Annual Conference of the Indian Psychiatric Society - South Zone – 2007, Hyderabad, India.
Scopus Young Scientist Award in Medicine for the Year 2006, Elsevier. Dr. G. Venkatasubramanian.
The Tilak Venkoba Rao Oration Award [Indian Psychiatric Society] 2006. Dr. G. Venkatasubramanian.
Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) grant 2006 under the financial assistance to MD/MS/DM.MCH thesis programme. Thesis student – DrRishikesh V Behere. Guide – Dr BN Gangadhar, Dr PN Jayakumar, Dr Ganesan Venkatasubramanian. “Neuroanatomical correlates of clinical social and functional outcome in schizophrenia.”
Young Scientist Award at the 12th Biennial International Winter Workshop on Schizophrenia in Davos, Switzerland (2003).Venkatasubramanian G, PN Jayakumar, BN Gangadhar, MS Keshavan. Longitudinal Study of MRI Gray Matter Volume in Never-treated Schizophrenia: Evidence for cognitive dysmetria. at the 12th Biennial International Winter Workshop on Schizophrenia in Davos, Switzerland.
Dr. SS Jayaram Award for the best research paper 2003. Varambally S, Venkatasubramanian G, Jagadisha, Janakiramaiah N, Gangadhar BN (2003). Cerebellar soft signs in never-treated schizophrenia. Annual Conference of Indian Psychiatric Society, South Zone - IPSOCON- at Tirupathi, November 2003)
Bombay Psychiatric Society Silver Jubilee Award 2003. Venkatasubramanian G, Jayakumar PN, Gangadhar BN, Janakiramaiah N, Keshavan MS. Reduced Caudate Volume in Never-treated Schizophrenia: Evidence for neurodevelopmental etiopathogenesis. For the best original research paper presentation at the Annual National Conference of Indian Psychiatric Society – 2003, Hyderabad, India.
Best Original Research Paper Award for the Year 2002 by the German Journal of Psychiatry. Venkatasubramanian G, Jayakumar PN, Gangadhar BN, Janakiramaiah N, Keshavan MS. Striato-cerebellar abnormalities in never-treated Schizophrenia. German J Psychiatry 2003 6(1); 1-7.
Dr. SS Jayaram Award 2002. Venkatasubramanian G, Jayakumar PN, Gangadhar BN, Janakiramaiah N, Keshavan MS. Reduced Caudate Volume in Never-treated Schizophrenia: Evidence for neurodevelopmental etiopathogenesis. For the best original research paper presentation at the Annual Conference of Indian Psychiatric Society – South Zone (November 2002), Mysore, India.
National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences Silver Jubilee Award 2001 for the best outgoing student of M.D. in Psychiatry. Dr. G. Venkatasubramanian.
Best Postgraduate Research Paper Award 2000. Venkatasubramanian G, PN Jayakumar, BN Gangadhar, MS Keshavan. Corpus Callosum Abnormalities & Neurological Soft Signs in Antipsychotic-naive Schizophrenia. for the best original research paper presentation in the Annual Conference of Indian Psychiatric Society – Karnataka chapter in Mysore (August 2000), India.
Best Postgraduate Research Paper Award 2000. Venkatasubramanian G, PN Jayakumar, BN Gangadhar, MS Keshavan. Corpus Callosum Abnormalities & Neurological Soft Signs in Antipsychotic-naive Schizophrenia. Dr. D.S. Raju award for the best original research paper presentation at the Annual Conference of the Indian Psychiatric Society in Madurai (October 2000), India.