Dr. Bharath Holla

Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Integrative Medicine,
National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru

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Specializing in psychiatry with both an MD and a PhD, Dr. Holla contributes to patient care, research, and post-graduate education in the field.

He completed his postgraduate residency in psychiatry and further specialized in addiction psychiatry during a post-doctoral clinical fellowship at NIMHANS, Bengaluru, India. His PhD research focused on using imaging-genomics to understand addiction vulnerability in adolescents.

His research interests include:

  • Biological Psychiatry,
  • Addiction Medicine,
  • Evidence-based Integrative Psychiatry,
  • Population Neuroscience,
  • Neuroimaging,
  • Genetics.

As a co-investigator, Dr. Holla contributes to several neuroscience research initiatives in India, such as:

  • The Consortium on the Vulnerability to Externalizing Disorders and Addictions (c-VEDA) [cveda-project.org],
  • Pathways to Resilience and Mental Health (PARAM),
  • Accelerator program for Discovery in Brain disorders using Stem cells (ADBS) [adbsnimhans.org],
  • The Centre for Brain and Mind (CBM)
  • Yoga and Ayurveda in Neuroscience - Translational Research Accelerator Programme (YANTRA)

Dr. Holla advocates strongly for open-science initiatives and multi-disciplinary collaborations to advance neuroscience and psychiatry.

His involvement in multiple multi-institutional and international population neuroscience projects has led to high-impact research publications and significant contributions to the community.

Dr. Holla is committed to innovating new treatment methodologies for psychiatric disorders while also incorporating traditional approaches, such as Yoga and Ayurveda, into patient care for holistic well-being.

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selected publications

  1. A series of five population-specific Indian brain templates and atlases spanning ages 6-60 years.
    Bharath Holla, Paul A. Taylor, Daniel R. Glen, John A. Lee, Nilakshi Vaidya, Urvakhsh Meherwan Mehta, Ganesan Venkatasubramanian, Pramod Kumar Pal, Jitender Saini, Naren P. Rao, and 12 more authors
    Human brain mapping, Dec 2020
  2. Effect of prefrontal tDCS on resting brain fMRI graph measures in Alcohol Use Disorders: A randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled study.
    Bharath Holla, Jitendriya Biswal, Vinutha Ramesh, Venkataram Shivakumar, Rose Dawn Bharath, Vivek Benegal, Ganesan Venkatasubramanian, Prabhat Kumar Chand, and Pratima Murthy
    Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry, Aug 2020
  3. Altered brain cortical maturation is found in adolescents with a family history of alcoholism.
    Bharath Holla, Rose Dawn Bharath, Ganesan Venkatasubramanian, and Vivek Benegal
    Addiction biology, Jul 2019
  4. Brain Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Cue-reactivity Can Predict Baclofen Response in Alcohol Use Disorders.
    Bharath Holla, Sheshachala Karthik, Jitendriya Biswal, Biju Viswanath, Deepak Jayarajan, Rose Dawn Bharath, Ganesan Venkatasubramanian, and Vivek Benegal
    Clinical Psychopharmacology and Neuroscience, Aug 2018
  5. Disrupted resting brain graph measures in individuals at high risk for alcoholism.
    Bharath Holla, Rajanikant Panda, Ganesan Venkatasubramanian, Bharat Biswal, Rose Dawn Bharath, and Vivek Benegal
    Psychiatry research. Neuroimaging, Jul 2017