Dr. Meena Gnanansekharan

Dr Meena Gnanansekharan is a Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatrist in Bengaluru with 31 years of experience. She is currently practising as a Consultant at Manipal Hospital, Yeshwanthpur.

She also consults at Reach Psychiatry and Counselling Centre, Kalyan Nagar.

She specialises in neurodevelopmental conditions, child and adolescent mental health, adult mood disorders, eating disorders and addiction medicine.

Areas of Expertise

• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Dr Gnanansekharan diagnoses and manages emotional and behavioural challenges in children and teenagers, including school refusal, social anxiety and adolescent mood disturbances.
• Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Her clinical focus includes diagnostic evaluations and management protocols for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism spectrum conditions and intellectual disabilities.
• Adult Mood and Anxiety Disorders: She provides pharmacological care and psychological support for major depressive disorders, bipolar spectrum conditions, obsessive compulsive disorder and generalised panic disorders.
• Eating and Sleep Disorders: She treats complex eating pathologies, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorders, alongside chronic insomnia and sleep dysregulations.
• Addiction Medicine and Psychotherapy: She oversees medical detoxification and therapeutic interventions utilising cognitive behavioural therapy, insight-oriented therapy and motivational enhancement protocols.

Educational Background

She completed her adult psychiatry residency and child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at the University of South Dakota School of Medicine, United States.

She is a dual Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in General Psychiatry as well as Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Awards, Research, and Publications

Dr Gnanansekharan received the Future Leaders in Psychiatry Award from Emory University and served as a Keynote Speaker at the Second World Congress on Psychiatry and Psychological Syndromes in Spain.

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