Bharath Holla

Employment

• National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences Associate Professor of Psychiatry
  2023 - Present
• National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
  2019 - 2023
• National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences Assistant Professor and Clinician Scientist for the Accelerator program for Discovery in Brain disorders using Stem cells (ADBS)
  2017 - 2019
• National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences Senior Resident and Ph.D. Scholar
  2015 - 2017
• National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences Senior Resident and Post doctoral Clinical Fellow
  2014 - 2015
• National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences Junior Resident
  2011 - 2014

Education

• National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences Ph.D. (Addiction Psychiatry)
  2015 - 2022
• National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences Post Doctoral Clinical Fellowship
  2014 - 2015
• National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences MD
  2011 - 2014
• Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute MBBS
  2004 - 2010

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (105)

• For better and for worse: Evidence of differential susceptibility to environmental adversity in youth substance use from the cVEDA cohort
  Asian Journal of Psychiatry 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajp.2026.105116
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• Efficacy of yoga-breath linked intervention to stop smoking (Y-BLISS) in reducing the number of cigarettes smoked per day among smokers attempting to reduce or quit: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial [version 3; peer review: 2 approved]
  2026 DOI: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.22839.3
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• Efficacy of yoga-breath linked intervention to stop smoking (Y-BLISS) in reducing the number of cigarettes smoked per day among smokers attempting to reduce or quit: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
  Wellcome Open Research 2026 DOI: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.22839.2
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• Plasma Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein (GFAP) shows age-dependent associations with externalizing psychopathology and atypical brain connectivity
  Translational Psychiatry 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41398-026-04114-2
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• Development, Validation and Feasibility of a Yoga-Based Motor Assessment Tool (Y-MAT) for Children with ADHD: A Cross-Sectional Pilot Study [version 1; peer review: 2 approved with reservations]
  2026 DOI: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.26077.1
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• The Brief Prakriti Inventory: Latent structure, reliability, and validity [version 2; peer review: 4 approved, 1 approved with reservations]
  2026 DOI: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.25166.2
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• Ayurvedic Therapeutic Regimen as an Add-On to Optimized Conventional Management of Parkinson Disease: Protocol for an Exploratory Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluating Clinical, Cortical Excitability, Neuroimmune, and Autonomic Function Parameters
  JMIR Research Protocols 2026 DOI: 10.2196/83336
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• A unified general cognitive factor explains impairment across schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD and substance use disorder
  Medrxiv 2026 DOI: 10.64898/2025.12.24.25342965
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• DGAMLSS: An exact, distributed algorithm to fit Generalized Additive Models for Location, Scale, and Shape for privacy-preserving population reference charts
  Bioinformatics 2026 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btaf625
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• The competency–control paradox in parenting adolescents: Evidence from an Indian mixed-methods study
  Asian Journal of Psychiatry 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajp.2026.104965
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