Y.C. Janardhan Reddy is a Senior Professor of Psychiatry, Associate Dean of Behavioral Sciences and Head of the Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Clinic at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India. Dr. Reddy has special interest in studying the long-term course and outcome of OCD and bipolar disorders and in the management of treatment resistant OCD patients. He is involved in studies of phenomenology, comorbidity, family-genetics, treatment resistance, neuropsychology, and neuroimaging in OCD. Dr. Reddy’s research has been funded by various national and international agencies. He was a member of the WHO Working Group on Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders for ICD-11 classification of Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Dr. Reddy is the lead author of the Indian Psychiatric Society (IPS) Clinical Practice Guidelines on OCD and on CBT in anxiety disorders and OCD and related disorders.