Dr Mamta Sood

Name: MAMTA SOOD

Present Position: Professor of Psychiatry

All India Institute of Medical Sciences

Ansari Nagar, New Delhi 110029, India

Major (Retd), Army Medical Corps, Armed Forces of India

Contact Address: Dr Mamta Sood

Deptt of Psychiatry, 4^th Floor, Teaching Block, AIIMS, New Delhi -110029

Phone : 91 11 26546634

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Professional Qualifications:

MBBS (Dec 1988): Government Medical College, Rohtak

DPM (Jul 1991): Central Institute of Psychiatry, Kanke, Ranchi, Jharkhand

MD (Jul 1993): Central Institute of Psychiatry, Kanke, Ranchi, Jharkhand

MAMS (2009): National Academy of Medical Sciences (India)

Areas of interest: Severe mental illnesses, Psychosocial underpinnings of mental illnesses, Use of mobile technologies in mental health, Medical education

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Position 	Institution	Duration
Graded & Classified Specialist (Psychiatry)	Army Medical corps	1995- 2005
Assistant Professor (Psychiatry)	AIIMS, New Delhi	2005 -2009
Associate Professor (Psychiatry)	AIIMS, New Delhi	2009-2012
Additional Professor (Psychiatry)	AIIMS, New Delhi	2012 -2016
Professor	AIIMS, New Delhi	2016-till date

 

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS AND MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES

Professional Awards

• Col Kirpal Singh Award of Indian Psychiatric Society for best paper in Military Psychiatry (1997)

• Young Psychiatrist award of Japanese Society of Psychiatrists and Neurologists (2007)

• G C Boral Award of Indian Association for Social Psychiatry (2009, 2018)

• Balint Award of Indian Association for Social Psychiatry (2011)

• J K Trivedi Award of Indian Association for Social Psychiatry (2018)

• N N De Oration Award of Indian Association for Social Psychiatry (2021)

Posts held in Scientific Societies

• Vice President, Indian Association for Social Psychiatry (2022-2024)

• Vice President Cum President Elect, Indian Psychiatric Society, North Zone (2022-2023)

• University Representative on the Advisory Committee of Lady Harding Medical College (2022-till date)

• Secretary General, Indian Association for Social Psychiatry (2016- 2020)

• EC member, Indian Association for Social Psychiatry (2012-2016, 2020 - 2022)

• Assistant Secretary General, Indian Association for Social Psychiatry (2007-2011)

• EC member, Indian Psychiatric Society, North Zone (2015-2018)

• Election officer, Indian Psychiatric Society, North Zone (2019 -2020)

• Election Commissioner, Indian Psychiatric Society, North Zone (2020-2021)

• Convener, UG Task force, Indian Psychiatric Society (2012-2015)

• Secretary, Section on Recovery, World Association of Social Psychiatry (2019- till date)

Membership Professional Societies

• Fellow Indian Psychiatric Society

• Fellow Indian Association for Social Psychiatry

• Fellow Indian Psychiatric Society North Zone

Organizational Activities

• Organising Secretary, WASP Asia Pacific Hybrid Congress 2021 (2021)

• Organising Secretary, 27^th National Conference of Indian Association for Social Psychiatry (2021)

• Organizing Secretary, National CME on Strengthening Home Based Care for Severe Mental Disorders, AIIMS New Delhi (2019)

• Chairperson, Scientific Committee, 26^th National Conference of Indian Association for Social Psychiatry, at Bhubaneswar (2019)

• Organizing Secretary, National CME on Consultation Liaison Psychiatry, AIIMS New Delhi (2018)

• Chairperson, Scientific Committee, 25^th National Conference of Indian Association for Social Psychiatry at Rohtak (2018)

• Chairperson, Scientific Committee, 24^th National Conference of Indian Association for Social Psychiatry at Guwahati (2017)

• Treasurer, Mid Term CME of Indian Psychiatric Society North at New Delhi (2010)

• Assistant Organizing Secretary, 15^th National Conference of Indian Association for Social Psychiatry (2008)

 

RESEARCH

Publications

• Singh SP, Winsper C, Mohan M, Birchwood M, Chadda RK, Furtado V, Iyer SN, Lilford RJ, Madan J, Meyer C, Ramachandran P, Thara R, Shah J, Sood M. WIC Consortium Pathways to care in first-episode psychosis in low-resource settings: Implications for policy and practice. Asian Journal of Psychiatry. 2023 Mar 1;81:103463.

• Singh P, Srivastava A, Guin D, Thakran S, Yadav J, Chandna P, Sood M, Chadda RK, Kukreti R. Genetic Landscape of Major Depressive Disorder: Assessment of Potential Diagnostic and Antidepressant Response Markers. International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology. 2023 Jan 19.

• Singh SP, Jilka S, Abdulmalik J, Bouliotis G, Chadda R, Egbokhare O, Huque R, Hundt GL, Iyer S, Jegede O, Khera N, Lilford R, Madan J, Omigbodun A, Omigbodun O, Raja T, Read, UM Siddiqi BA, Sood M, Soron TR, Ahmed HU, Transforming access to care for serious mental disorders in slums (the TRANSFORM Project): rationale, design and protocol. BJPsych Open. 2022 Nov;8(6):e185.

• Gupta R, Sood M, Sharma U, Bhargava R, Jagannathan NR, Chadda RK. Neurochemical correlates of cognitive functions in euthymic patients with bipolar disorder: 1H-MRS study. Asian journal of psychiatry. 2022 Dec;78:103273.

• Mishra A, Reeta KH, Sarangi SC, Maiti R, Sood M. Effect of add-on alpha lipoic acid on psychopathology in patients with treatment-resistant schizophrenia: a pilot randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial (Sep, 10.1007/s00213-022-06225-2, 2022). PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY. 2022 Nov 1;239(11):3537-.

• Soni S, Muthukrishnan SP, Sood M, Kaur S, Sharma R. Spectral perturbations of cortical dipoles during a dynamic visuo-spatial working memory task in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging. 2022 Oct 1;326:111530.

• Mishra A, Sarangi SC, Maiti R, Sood M, Reeta KH. Efficacy and Safety of Adjunctive Serotonin‐Dopamine Activity Modulators in Major Depression: A Meta‐Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. The Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. 2022 Jun;62(6):721-32.

• Sood M, Chadda RK, Shukla T, Patel R, Ratra D, Mohan M, Singh SP. A Study on Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Persons with Preexisting Psychotic Disorder, their Coping Strategies, and Compliance with Preventive Measures. World Soc Psychiatry 2022; 4:202-10

• Sood M, Chadda R, Chawla N, Sharma M, Patel R, Mohan M, Iyer S, Padmavati R, Thara R, Singh S. Understanding needs of stakeholders and outcomes desired from a home-based intervention program for" difficult to treat" schizophrenia and related disorders: A qualitative study. Indian Journal of Psychiatry. 2022 Jan 1;64 38-47

• Katyal J, Rashid H, Tripathi M, Sood M. Prevalence of depression and suicidal ideation in persons with epilepsy during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study from India. Epilepsy & Behavior. 2021 Nov 1;124:108342.

• Sood M, Chadda RK, Meeting the Challenge of COVID-19 Pandemic in Mental Health Care in a Tertiary-Care General Hospital in India. Ann Natl Acad Med Sci DOI: 10.1055/s-0041-1729774

• Singh SP, Mohan M, Iyer SN, Meyer C, Currie G, Shah J, Madan J, Birchwood M, Sood M, Padmavati R, Chadda RK, Lilford RJ, Rangaswamy T, Furtado V on behalf of the WIC Consoritum, Warwick-India-Canada (WIC) global mental health group: rationale, design and protocol. BMJ Open 2021;11: e046362. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046362

• Singh J, Sood M, Chadda RK, Singh V, Kattula D. Mental health issues and coping among health care workers during COVID19 pandemic: Indian perspective. Asian J Psychiatr. 2021; 61:102685. doi: 10.1016/j.ajp.2021.102685

• Rashid H, Katyal J, Sood M, Tripathi M. Depression in persons with epilepsy: A comparative study of different tools in Indian population. Epilepsy Behav. 2021; 115:107633. doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2020.107633. Epub 2020 Dec 11. PMID: 33309426.

• Sharma S, Kumar V, Sood M, Malhotra R. Effect of Preoperative Modifiable Psychological and Behavioural Factors on Early Outcome Following Total Knee Arthroplasty in an Indian Population. Indian J Orthopaedics 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43465-020-00325-x

• Singh J, Verma R, Raghav R, Sarkar S, Sood M, Jain R. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) levels in first-episode schizophrenia and healthy controls: A comparative study. Asian J Psychiatry. 2020; 54:102370.

• Sood M, Patra BN, Deep R, Kalyansundaram L, Dua S, Vijay S. Organizing inpatient services in a general hospital in times of COVID-19. Indian J Soc Psychiatry 2020;36, Suppl S1:154-61

• Soni S, Muthukrishnan SP, Sood M, Kaur S, Sharma R. 2020. Altered parahippocampal gyrus activation and its connectivity with resting-state network areas in schizophrenia: An EEG study. Schizophrenia Research 222, 411-422

• Dhandapani VR, Chandrasekaran S, Singh S, Sood M, Chadda RK, Shah J, Iyer S, Meyer C, Mohan M, Birchwood M, Madan J, Currie G, Ramachandran P, Rangaswamy T, Singh SP. Community stakeholders' perspectives on youth mental health in India: Problems, challenges and recommendations. Early Interv Psychiatry. 2020 May 21. doi: 10.1111/eip.12984. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32436369.

• Mathur R, Singh J, Sood M. A Case Report of Clozapine-Associated Stuttering and Amisulpride-Associated Stuttering and Seizure in an Adult on Concurrent Fluoxetine Therapy. J Clin Psychopharmacol. 2021 Mar 5. PMID: 33675589. doi: 10.1097/JCP.0000000000001376. Online ahead of print.

• Soni S, Muthukrishnan SP, Samanchi R, Sood M, Kaur S, Sharma R(2019) Pre-trial and pre-response EEG microstates in schizophrenia: An endophenotypic marker Behavioural brain research 371, 111964

• Rashid H, Katyal J, Tripathi M, Sood M, Gupta YK. Validation of the Indian version of Neurological Disorders Depression Inventory for Epilepsy (NDDI-E), Epilepsy & Behavior 2019; 95: 75-78

• Srivastava A, Singh P, Gupta H, Kaur H, Kanojia N, Guin D, Sood M, Chadda RK, Yadav J, Vohora D, Saso L, Kukreti R. Systems Approach to Identify Common Genes and Pathways Associated with Response to Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors and Major Depression Risk. Int J Mol Sci2019; 20:1993.

• Sood M, Mahapatra A, Chadda RK. Use of mobile phones by patients with serious mental illness attending a general hospital psychiatric outpatient service in India. Asian J Psychiatry 2019: 45: 61-62

• Bansal K, Kharbanda OP, Sharma J B, Sood M, Priya H, Kriplani A. Effectiveness of an integrated perinatal oral health assessment and promotion program on the knowledge in Indian pregnant women. J Indian Soc Pedod Prev Dent 2019; 37:383-91

• Pendse SR, Karusala N, Siddarth D, Gonsalves P, Mehrotra S, Naslund JA, Sood M, Kumar N, Sharma A. Mental health in the global south: challenges and opportunities in HCI for development. Proceedings of the Conference on Computing & Sustainable Societies, Pages 22-36, ACM

• Nishanth KN, Chadda RK, Sood M, Biswas A, Lakshmy R. Metabolic syndrome and its impact on functioning in participants with schizophrenia: A hospital-based cross-sectional study. Ind J Soc Psychiatry, 2019; 35: 179-182

• Kumar G, Sood M, Verma R, Mahapatra A, Chadda RK. Family caregivers’ needs of young patients with first episode psychosis: A qualitative study. International J of Social Psychiatry 2019; 65: 435-442

• Basu A, Chadda RK, Sood M, Kaur H, Kukreti  R. A preliminary association study between serotonin transporter (5-HTTLPR), receptor polymorphisms (5-HTR1A, 5-HTR2A) and depression symptom-clusters in a north Indian population suffering from Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) Asian J Psych. 2019; 43: 184-188

• Soni S, Muthukrishnan SP, Samanchi R, Sood M, Kaur S, Sharma R. Pre-trial and pre-response EEG microstates in schizophrenia: An endophenotypic marker. Behavioural brain research 2019: 371, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2019.111964

• Rashid H, Katyal J, Tripathi M, Sood M, Gupta YK. Validation of the Indian version of Neurological Disorders Depression Inventory for Epilepsy (NDDI-E), Epilepsy & Behavior 2019; 95: 75-78

• Srivastava A, Singh P, Gupta H, Kaur H, Kanojia N, Guin D, Sood M, Chadda, R K Yadav J, Vohora D, Saso Luciano Kukreti R. Systems Approach to Identify Common Genes and Pathways Associated with Response to Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors and Major Depression Risk. Int J Mol Sci 2019, 20(8), 1993; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms20081993

• Ganesh R, Verma R, Bhargava R, Sood M. Relationship between illness disability in patients with first-episode schizophrenia with caregivers' perception of their needs. Int J Soc Psych 2019; 35:32-9

• Gupta S, Sood M, Verma R, Singh J. Comparative survey of factors associated with illness-related knowledge among patients with severe mental illness and their caregivers. Indian J Soc Psychiatry 2019; 35:24-31

• Sood M, Krishnan V, Chadda R K, Kalpana, Kukreti R. Psychopathology of Schizophrenia in South Asia: Has there been a change over the last few decades? Asian J Psych 2019; 39: 80-83

• Ramadass S, Rai SK, Gupta SK, KantS, S Wadhwa, Sood M, Vishnubhatla S. Prevalence of disability and its association with sociodemographic factors and quality of life in a rural adult population of northern India. Natl Med J India 2019; 31: 268-273

• Ramdass S, Rai SK, Gupta SK, Kant S, Wadhwa S, Sood M, Sreenivas V. Prevalence of disability and its association with sociodemographic factors and quality of life in India: A systematic review. J Family Med Prim Care 2018; 7: 1177–1184.

• Gupta R, Sood M. Prioritizing rural and community psychiatry in India: A welcome idea! Indian J Soc Psychiatry 2018; 34:265-7

• Sood M, Chadda RK, Mishra AK, Kumari K, Kukreti R. Attitude toward antipsychotics and its correlation with psychopathology and insight in patients with schizophrenia. Indian J Soc Psychiatry 2018; 34:200-2

• Sinha Deb K, Tuli A, Sood M, Chadda RK, Verma R, Kumar S, Ganesh R, Singh P. Is India ready for mental health apps (MHApps)? A quantitative-qualitative exploration of caregivers’ perspective on smartphone-based solutions for managing severe mental illnesses in low resource settings. PLoS One. 2018 Sep 19;13(9):e0203353. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0203353. eCollection 2018.

• Soni S, Muthukrishnan SP, Sood M, Kaur S, Mehta N, Sharma R A novel method for assessing patients with schizophrenia and their first‐degree relatives by increasing cognitive load of visuo‐spatial working memory Asia Pac Psychiatry. 2018 Dec;10(4):e12333. doi: 10.1111/appy.12333. Epub 2018 Sep 7

• Soni S, Muthukrishnan SP, Sood M, Kaur S, Sharma R Hyperactivation of left inferior parietal lobule and left temporal gyri shortens resting EEG microstate in schizophrenia. Schiz Res 2018; 201: 204-207

• Sood M, Krishnan V. Preventive Psychiatry. Social Psychiatry: Principles & Clinical Perspectives, 2018, 383-385

• Prakash S, Sharan P, Sood M. A qualitative study on psychopathology of dhat syndrome in men: Implications for classification of disorders. Asian J Psychiatr. 2018; 35:79-88.

• Chadda RK, Sood M. General hospital psychiatry in India: History, scope, and future. Indian J Psychiatry. 2018;60: S258-S263

• Jajodia A, Kaur H, Srivastava A, Kumari K, Baghel R, Guin D, Sood M, Satyamoorthy K, Jain S, Chadda RK, Kukreti R. Schizophrenia susceptibility and neuregulin signaling pathway genes: A rare haplotype combination based association study in Indian population. Psychiatry Res. 2018; 262:628-630.

• Sood M, Singh SK, Chadda R K. Relevance of traditional Indian Medical concepts in psychosomatic medicine. Ann Natl Acad Med Sci (India) 2017; 53: 148-155

• Basu A, Chadda R, Sood M, Rizwan SA. Pre-treatment factor structures of the Montgomery and Åsberg Depression Rating scale as predictors of response to escitalopram in Indian patients with non-psychotic major depressive disorder. Asian J Psychiatr. 2017; 28:154-159.

• Sood M, Prashant G. Commentary on ‘Mental Illness, Psychiatric Institutions, and the Singularity of Lives’. Medicine Anthropology Theory doi.org/10.17157/mat.4.3.485

• Sood M, Ranjan R, Chadda RK, Khandelwal S K. Changing Pattern of Clinical Profile of First Contact Patients Attending Outpatient Services at General Hospital Psychiatric Unit in India over the Last 50 Years. Indian J Soc Psychiatry 2017; 33: 213-8

• Sood M, Krishnan V. Preventive psychiatry in clinical practice. Indian J Soc Psychiatry 2017; 33:79-85

• Sood M, Chadda RK, Kallivayalil RA. Primary prevention in psychiatry in general hospitals in South Asia. Indian J Psychiatry. 2017; 59: 510-514

• Nishanth KN, Chadda RK, Sood M, Biswas A, Lakshmy R. Physical comorbidity in schizophrenia and its correlates. Ind J Med Research 2017; 146: 281-284

• Sood M, Singh S, Chadda RK. Relevance of traditional Indian medical concepts in psychosomatic medicine. Ann Natl Acad Med Sci (India) 2017; 53: 148-155.

• Tuli A, Singh P, Sood M, SinhaDeb K, Jain S, Jain A, Wason M, Chadda RK, Verma R. Harmony: Close Knitted mHealth Assistance for Patints, Caregivers and Doctors managing SMIs. Ubicomp/ISWC'16 Adjunct, September 12-16, 2016, Heidelberg, Germany ACM 978-1-4503-4462-3/16/09.

• Sood M, Gupta N. Workshop on Management of 'Difficult to Treat' Serious Mental Illnesses using Problem Based Learning Approach. Indian J Soc Psychiatry 2016; 32: 174-176

• Sood M, Chadda RK, Sinha Deb K, Bhad R, Mahapatra A, Verma R, Mishra AK Scope of Mobile Phones in Mental Health Care in Low Resource Settings. J Mob Tech Med 2016;6 Article · July 2016 DOI: 10.7309/jmtm.5.2.5

• Sood M, Chadda RK, Singh P. Mobile health (mHealth) in mental health: scope & applications in low resource settings. Nat Med J India 2016; 29: 341-343

• Chawla N, Sood M. Selected summary of the article titled “Medical marijuana laws and adolescent marijuana use in the USA from 1991 to 2014: results from annual, repeated cross-sectional surveys” from Lancet Psychiatry. Nat Med J India 2016; 29: 220-221

• Mahapatra A, Sood M, Khandelwal S K Case Report: Multiple Meningioma in a Patient of Bipolar Disorder: The Dilemma of Detecting Structural Brain Lesions in the Backdrop of a Long Standing Psychiatric Illness Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research DOI: 10.7860/JCDR/2016/18817.8332

• Mahapatra A, Sood M, Bhad R, Tripathi M. Behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia with bilateral insular hypometabolism: a case report. J Clin Diagn Res 2016; 10: VD 01-VD 02

• Prakash S, Sharan P, Sood M. A study on phenomenology of Dhat syndrome in men in a general medical setting. Indian J Psychiatry 2016; 58:129-41.

• Shukla G, Aggarwal P, Sagar R, Sood M, Gupta A, Suri A, Garg A. Does antiepileptic drug withdrawal predispose patients undergoing temporal lobe epilepsy surgery to late onset of psychiatric morbidity? A report of three cases.  Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology 19(3):377 · July 2016 DOI: 10.4103/0972-2327.186828

• Jajodia A , Kaur H , Kalpana K , Kanojia N , Gupta M , Baghel R , Sood M, Jain S , Chadda R K, Kukreti K. Evaluation of genetic association of neurodevelopment and neuroimmunological genes with antipsychotic treatment response in schizophrenia in Indian populations. Mol Genet Genomic Med 2016; 4: 18–27

• Sood M, Chadda RK. Psychosocial rehabilitation for severe mental illnesses in general hospital psychiatric settings in India. BJPsych International 2015; 12: 47-48

• Sood M, Patra BN, Agrawal A, Khandelwal SK. Pituitary macroadenoma presenting with multiple psychiatric complications. Indian J Psych Med 2015; 37:462-4

• Sood M, Ranjan R. Medical Education in India: Current Status. India Science & Technology Report 2015; 3:51-54

• Basu A, Chadda RK, Sood M, Kaur H, Kukreti R. Association of serotonin transporter (SLC6A4) & receptor (5HTR1A, 5HTR2A) polymorphisms with response to treatment with escitalopram in patients with major depressive disorder A preliminary study. Indian J Med Res 2015; 142: 40-5.

• Basu A, Thanapal S, Sood M, Khandelwal SK. Catatonia: an unusual manifestation of Wilson's disease. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 2015; 27:72-3.

• Jajodia A, Kaur H, Kalpana, Gupta M, Baghel R , Srivastava A , Sood M, Chadda RK, Jain S , Kukreti R. Evidence for schizophrenia susceptibility alleles in the Indian population: An association of neurodevelopmental genes in case–control and familial samples. Schiz Res 2015; 162:112–117

• N Sujata, Gupta S, Sood M. A retrospective study to assess the delay in treatment seeking and factors contributing to delay in seeking treatment among the caregivers of persons having first episode psychosis. Int J of Nursing Edu 2015; 7: 228- 232

• Majumdar P, Khandelwal SK, Sood M, Nehra A, Sharma BS. A comparative study of cognitive function following traumatic brain injury: Significance of initial Glasgow coma scale score to predict cognitive outcome. J Mental Health Hum Behav 2015; 20: 59-64

• Bera SC, Sood M, Chadda RK, Sathyanarayana Rao TS. Contribution of general hospital psychiatric units to psychiatric research in India. Indian J Psychiatry 2014; 56:278-82

• Bera S C, Khandelwal SK, Sood M, Goyal V. A Comparative Study of Psychiatric Comorbidity, Quality of Life and Disability in Patients with Migraine and Tension. Neuro India 2014; 62: 516-520

• Gnanavel S, Thanapal S, Khandelwal SK, Sood M. Olanzapine-Induced Tardive Dystonia: a Case Report. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 2014; 26: E24-E25.

• Mittal AK, Majumder P, Agrawal A, Sood M, Khandelwal SK. Early onset obsessive compulsive disorder with obsessive slowness: a case report and demonstration of management. Indian J Psychol Med 2013; 35: 407-9.

• Krishana V, Sood M, Chadda RK. Caregiver Burden and Disability in patients with Somatization Disorder. J Psychosomatic Res 2013; 75: 376-380

• Chadda RK, Ramshankar P, Sinha Deb K, Sood M. Metabolic syndrome in schizophrenia: Differences between antipsychotic‑naive and treated patients. J Pharmacol Pharmacother 2013; 4: 174-84.

• Sivakumar T, Yadav A, Sood M, Khandelwal SK. Lorazepam withdrawal Catatonia: A case report. Asian J Psychiatry 2013; 6:620-1

• Sood M. Book Review: Expanding Horizons of the Mind Science(s). Nat Med J India 2013; 26: 55-56

• Patra B N, Kandelwal SK, Sood M. Olanzapine induced neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome. Indian J Pharmacology 2013; 45: 98-99

• Kuriakose A, Gupta S, Sood M. Quality of life and health care utilization in patients having somatoform disorder. International Journal of Current Research 2013; 5: 1838-1842

• Sinha Deb K, Sarkar S, Sood M, Khandelwal SK. Wires in the Body: A case of Factitious Disorder. Indian J Psych Med 2013; 39: 209-211

• Lalwani S, Bagla R, Sood M, Behera C, Bhardwaj DN. Suicide Among Females with Pregnancy: A Retrospective Study. J Paed Obstet Gynaec 2013; 4: 83-86

• Sood M, Sharan P. Undergraduate training in psychiatry at AIIMS: Integration with community medicine. Indian J psychiatry 2012; 54:93-94

• Sood M. A girl who saw friends unseen by others: what did we do? Indian J Soc Psychiatry 2012; 28: 87-93

• Maji KR, Sood M, Sagar R, Khandelwal SK. A follow-up study of family burden in patients with bipolar affective disorder. Int J Soc Psychiatry 2012; 58: 217-223

• Pallava A, Chadda RK, Sood M, Laksmy R. Metabolic syndrome in schizophrenia: A comparative study of antipsychotic-free/naïve and antipsychotic-treated patients from India. Nordic J Psychiatry 2012; 66: 215-21

• Sood M, Agarwal A, Sivaraman S, Khadelwal SK. Diagnostic dilemma: A case of self-injurious behavior. Indian J Psychiatry 2011; 53: 159-162

• Mishra N,  Singh SJ Nagpal, Chadda RK,  Sood M. Help seeking behavior of patients with mental health problems visiting a tertiary care centre in North India. Indian J Psychiatry 2011; 53: 234-238

• Sarkar S, Sood M. A patient of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis on category IV treatment regimen presenting with psychosis. Nat Med J India 2011; 24: 244-245.

• Sood M. Book review: Persuasion in Clinical Practice: Helping people make changes. Nat Med J India 2011; 24: 240

• Nagpal SJS, Mishra N, Chadda RK, Sood M, Garg R. Changing trends of services used as first contact by patients with mental health problems. Nat Med J India 2011; 24: 148-150

• Sood M, Sharan P. A pragmatic approach to integrating mental health in undergraduate training: The AIIMS experience and work in progress. Nat Med J India 2011; 24: 108-110.

• Sood M, Ambekar A (2011) ‘Fresh fruit juice’—a metaphor for giving extra care to a patient by family members/caretakers. Nat Med J India, 24, 375

• Sood M, Chadda RK (2010) Women in Academic Psychiatry: View from India. The Psychiatrist, 34 , 498-499

• Chadda RK, Sood M (2010) Indian research on women and psychiatry. Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 52, 229-32

• Sood M, Chadda RK (2010) Women psychiatrists in India: A reflection of their contributions. Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 52, 396-401

• Sood M (2010) Book review: Mindreadings: Literature and Psychiatry. The National Medical Journal of India, 23, 180-181

• Sood M, Chadda RK (2010). Women in Medicine: A Perspective. Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 17, 277-285.

• Chadda RK, Sood M, Kumar N (2009) Experiences of a sensitization program on common mental disorders for primary care physicians using problem-based learning approach. Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 51, 289-91.

• Sood M, Chadda RK (2009) Women in psychiatry: A view from the Indian subcontinent. Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 51,199-201.

• Chadda RK, Sood M, Kumar N (2009) Sensitising primary-care physicians to common mental disorders using a problem-based learning approach. International Psychiatry, 6, 25.

• Sood M, Shivanand K (2008) Childhood Onset Schizophrenia: Clinical Features, Course and Outcome, Journal of Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health 2008; 4:28-37

• Sood M, Chadda RK (2008) Women physicians in India. The National Medical Journal of India, 21, 154. 

• Lal R, Sood M, Kumar A (2008) ICD-11: Draft Proposal for Changes in the ‘Schizophrenia, Schizotypal and Delusional Disorders’ Section. Department of Psychiatry, AIIMS. ICD-11: Draft Proposal for Changes in the Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders, page 25-34.

• Saldanha D, Chaudhury S, Pawar AA, Ryali VSSR, Srivastava K, Sood M, Bedi HK (2007) Changing Pattern of Alcohol Abuse in the Army before and after AO 3&11/2001, Medical Journal Armed Forces India, 63, 160-162

• Sood M, Saldanha D (2004) Socio-demographic and Service Profile of Cases Diagnosed as Psychiatric Investigations (NAD). Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 46, 349-353.

• Sood M, Sood AK (2003) Depression in Pregnancy and Postpartum Period. Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 45, 48-51

• Sood M (2001) A Study on Outcome of Non affective Psychoses in Armed Forces. Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 43, 127-132

Books:

• Mental Health at Crossroads: Challenges and Solutions Editors: Chadda RK, Sharan P, Sood M, SinhaDeb K), White Falcon Publishing (ISBN: 9781636407319)

• Handbook of Consultation Liaison Psychiatry (Editors: Chadda RK, Sood M, Sarkar S), All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences: New Delhi (2020) (ISBN: 978-93-5407-984-9)

• COVID 19 Pandemic and Mental Health: Experiences of Organizing Services at a Tertiary Care Healthcare Institution (Editors: Chadda RK, Sood M, Deep R), All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences: New Delhi (2021) (ISBN: 978-93-5457-832-8)

• Mental Health Mental Illnesses: Identification and treatment (Manasik Rog: Pahchan aur Upchar) - in Hindi. (Editors: Chadda RK, Sagar R, Sood M, Ambekar A), All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences: New Delhi (2007).

• Editor for the Course Mental Health and Disorders, MSC (Counseling & Family Therapy), Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi

Research Projects

Funded

• PI in a project titled “Prospective Longitudinal Study on Duration of Untreated Psychosis in Patients with First Episode of Psychosis as Principal Investigator” (Funded by AIIMS) (2007-2008)

• Co PI in a project titled “Development of Pharmacogenomics SNP database for critical candidate genes involved in drug response for Schizophrenia as Co-investigator” (Funded by DBT) (2008-2010)

• Co PI in a project titled “Intra-genic variation of candidate genes in depression and suicide Ideation: Association study in Indian population” (Funded by DST) (2013-2015)

• PI in a project titled “A study of the clinical correlates of Quantitative Electro-encephalographic spectral analysis in first episode psychosis” (Funded by AIIMS) (2014-2016)

• Co-PI in a project titled “Genetic polymorphisms of serotonergic pathways genes and their association studies with disease severity and response to selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors in patients with major depressive disorder” (Funded by ICMR) (2017- 2020)

• Co-PI in a project titled “NIHR Global Health Research Group on Psychosis Outcomes (Funded by NIHR, UK) (2017-2021)

• Co-PI in a project titled “Assessing the Feasibility and Impact of Physical Health Monitoring in Patients with First Episode Psychosis (AIIMS Centre)” (Funded by NIHR, UK) (2021-2022)

Non funded

• PI in a project titled “A Study on Outcome of Non affective Psychoses in Armed Forces” (1999)

• PI in a project titled “A study Psychiatry Investigation (NAD) in Armed Forces” (2001)

• PI in a project titled “A study on Pregnancy and Postpartum Depression” (2001)

• PI in project titled “Research published in Indian Journal of Psychiatry from General Hospital Psychiatric Units”. (2014)

• PI in a project titled “Stigma and its correlates in schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders: A multi-centric cross-sectional study” under Indian Association for Social Psychiatry. (2014)

• PI in a project titled “Walk in clinic in a General Hospital Psychiatric Unit attached to medical college in North India”. (2014)

• PI in a Project titled “Teaching Postgraduate Trainees Communication with Caregivers of Patients with Severe Mental Illnesses in Low Resource Settings” (2015)

• PI in a project titled “Development of a Mobile based Framework for ‘Difficult to Treat’ Severe Mental Illnesses in Low Resource Settings” in collaboration with IIITD (2015)

• PI in a Project titled “Socio-Demographic and Clinical Profile of Patients with Difficult to Treat Severe Mental Illnesses attending a General Hospital” (2015)

• Co PI in a project titled “Need Assessment Survey about Consultation Liaison Psychiatry amongst the Clinical Faculty Members at AIIMS, New Delhi” (2015)

• Co PI in a project titled “Effect of an oral health preventive module on the oral health practices among pregnant women” (2015-2016)

• PI in a project titled “Socio-Demographic and Clinical Profile of Patients with Difficult to Treat Severe Mental Illnesses Visiting a Tertiary Care General Hospital” (2016)

• PI in a project titled “Prevalence and Clinical Correlates of Somatic Symptoms in Patients with Schizophrenia and Related Disorders” (2016)

• PI in a project titled “A cross-sectional study of association of illness disability and cognitive functioning in patients to caregiver needs in first episode schizophrenia” (2016)

• PI in a project titled “A cross-sectional study about knowledge towards mental illness and treatment in patients with severe mental illness and their caregivers” (2017)

• PI in a project titled “To assess change in knowledge, about mental illness and treatment of patients with severe mental illnesses, in their caregivers: A case-control study” (2017)

• PI in a project titled “A Study on Technology-Based Help-seeking Behaviors for Common Mental Disorders” (2018)

• PI in a project titled “Pilot study to assess creativity among patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in remission” (2018)

• PI in a project titled “A Study on Technology-Based Help-seeking Behaviours in patients with Severe Mental Disorders” (2019)

• PI in a project titled “Development of a Mobile based application for imparting psychosocial interventions for First Episode Psychosis” (2020)

• PI in a project titled “To study the prevalence of metabolic syndrome, disability and quality of life in patients with treatment resistant schizophrenia on clozapine” (2020)

• PI in a project titled “Survey for the assessment of mental health issues among health care workers and their coping with these issues during COVID 19 pandemic” (2021)

  

TEACHING

• Undergraduate and postgraduate teacher

• Member, Teaching Schedule Committee for Undergraduates at AIIMS

• Convener, UG Task Force, Indian Psychiatric Society

• In-charge of training in psychiatry of Interns and nursing students

• Teaching activities of the department, chief guide for MD thesis in the department and co-guide in MD and PhD thesis of other departments

• In-charge of training Junior Residents from other departments posted for training in psychiatry

• Started Community posting of Junior Residents (Psychiatry) at CRHSP, Ballabhgarh

• Workshops on communication skills for residents and faculty and stress management for newly inducted staff nurses and lab technicians in CMET

• Visiting Faculty, for a course Anthropology of Mental Health, Ashoka University, 2020-21

• Guide/Co-guide in MD Thesis: 26

• Co-guide in Thesis MSc Nursing/MSc Physiology: 9

• Co-guide in PhD Thesis: 3

• Co- Guide in DM thesis: 3