Specialisation: Psychiatry
Qualification: MD Psychiatry, DM Addiction Psychiatry
Alma Mater/Experience: MBBS from Govt Medical College Kozhikode 2005-11; MD
Psychiatry from NIMHANS 2013-16; DM Addiction Psychiatry from NIMHANS 2017-20;
Senior Resident in Psychiatry at NIMHANS 2016-17; Working as a Consultant Psychiatrist
in Iqraa from Sep 2020
Experience – 6 years post MD experience
Areas of interest: Psychotherapy in Substance Use Disorders, Dual Diagnosis, Lived
Experiences in Severe Mental Illness, Course and Outcome in Substance Use Disorders
Research Papers:
Narasimha VL, Menon TNJ, Mahadevan J, Mukherjee D, Benegal V, Murthy P.
Baclofen withdrawal hallucinosis. Asian Journal of Psychiatry 2018 Aug;36: 90-91
Narasimha VL, Shukla L, Mukherjee D, Menon TNJ, Mahadevan J, Huddar S, Panda
UK, Kandasamy A, Chand PK, Benegal V, Murthy P. Complicated Alcohol
Withdrawal—An Unintended Consequence of COVID-19 Lockdown. Alcohol
Alcohol. 2020 May 13 : agaa042.
Review Article
Jayakrishnan Menon and Arun Kandasamy. Relapse Prevention. Indian J of
Psychiatry. 2018 Feb; 60(Suppl 4): S473-S478
Book Chapters
Jayakrishnan Menon and Pratima Murthy. Addiction Spectrum Disorders. Different
Strokes: Spectrums of Psychiatry. Indian J of Psychiatry. Edited by Vinay Kumar and
Om Prakash. Jan 2018; pp 26-39
Jayakrishnan Menon and Arun Kandasamy. Management of Tobacco use Disorder
during the Pandemic of COVID-19. Mental Health in the times of COVID-19
Pandemic: Guideline for General Medical and Specialised Mental Health Care
Settings. Department of Psychiatry, NIMHANS. April 2020. Pg 75-81
Aniruddha Basu, Jayakrishnan Menon, Parvesh Batra, Mrinmay Das. Unifying
Pathways Among Addiction: The Similarities among Differences. Recent Advances
in Biological Psychiatry, 2 nd Edition. Indian Association of Biological Psychiatry.
Edited by Nitin Gupta, Pramod Kumar and Ashwin Mohan. 2020; Pg 7-15
