Ganesan Venkatasubramanian is a professor of psychiatry at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru. (NIMHANS). His areas of interest are schizophrenia, transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS), brain imaging, neuroimmu nology, neurometabolism and other areas of biological psychiatry.
He hails from Tamil Nadu and did his MBBS from Stanley Medical College. He completed MD and Ph.D in Psychiatry from NIMHANS. He was a clinical research fellow under Sean Spence in the University of Sheffield. Sean Spence developed the first brain scan lie detector. He was thus trained in advanced brain imaging techniques.
Venkatasubramanian’s brilliant achievements in the field of psychiatry brought him many awards and recognitions. He received the Young Scientist Award at the 12th Biennial International Winter Workshop on Schizophrenia in Switzerland in 2004 and the Elsevier Scopus Young Scientist Award for Medicine in 2006. He won three awards in 2009 namely, the Young Psychiatrist Award of the Indian Psychiatric Society, Shakuntala Amir Chand Prize of the ICMR and the Young Scientist Medal of the Indian National Science Academy. He also got the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in 2018.
He is in the editorial committee of the Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine and Asian Journal of Psychiatry published by Elsevier.
He is a member of the Indian Psychiatric Society and co-chaired its Biological Psychiatry section during 2010- 11.
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