Prevalence of alcohol & tobacco use & mental health correlation among male coal miners in West Bengal

Shampa Ghosh^{1

2

3}, Kannan Badri Narayanan⁴, Krishna Kumar Singh⁵, Jitendra Kumar Sinha^{1

2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Discovery and Basic Neurosciences, GloNeuro, Noida, India.
² Division of Neurotechnology, GloNeuro, Noida, India.
³ Division of Cognition and Translational Sciences, GloNeuro, Noida, India.
⁴ School of Chemical Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeonsang, Republic of Korea.
⁵ Symbiosis Centre for Information Technology, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, India.

Shampa Ghosh et al. Indian J Med Res. 2025 Mar.

. 2025 Mar;161(3):315-317.

doi: 10.25259/IJMR_1691_2024.

Shampa Ghosh^{1

2

3}, Kannan Badri Narayanan⁴, Krishna Kumar Singh⁵, Jitendra Kumar Sinha^{1

2

3}

¹ Division of Discovery and Basic Neurosciences, GloNeuro, Noida, India.
² Division of Neurotechnology, GloNeuro, Noida, India.
³ Division of Cognition and Translational Sciences, GloNeuro, Noida, India.
⁴ School of Chemical Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeonsang, Republic of Korea.
⁵ Symbiosis Centre for Information Technology, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, India.

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