Dr. Vikram Arunachalam is an award-winning Psychiatrist practicing at Manipal Hospital,Malleshwaram, Bengaluru. With over two decades of experience, he is widely respected for hisevidence-based, compassionate, and patient-centered psychiatric care.He completed his MBBS from Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Medical College in 2000 and pursued psychiatryspecialization at the Schizophrenia Research Foundation (SCARF), Chennai – a world-renowned,WHO-affiliated mental health center – where he earned his DNB in Psychiatry in 2009. He thenadvanced his training at NIMHANS, Bengaluru, an Institute of National Importance, where heworked for more than a decade under distinguished mentors, contributing extensively to clinicalpsychiatry, community psychiatry, research, and public health programs that have shapedservice delivery models across Karnataka.Areas of Expertise• Adult Psychiatry (mood, anxiety, psychotic, stress-related disorders)• Addiction Medicine (specialized expertise in nicotine/tobacco de-addiction)• Psychotherapy (CBT, supportive psychotherapy, family counseling)• Holistic services including premarital counseling, adolescent psychiatry, dementia care, migrainemanagement, and community psychiatry models