Vahan Simonyan

• Dementias


• Behavioral and mental disorders caused by the use of drugs and psychoactive substances Anxiety disorders Depressive disorders Bipolar affective disorders Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders Neuroses Post-traumatic stress disorders

Private Psychiatric Center, Director

Armenian Psychiatric Association, Secretary of reforms

"Nork" Psychiatric Center, Acting Director

"Nork" Psychiatric Center, Head of Department of 1st Psychotic Episode

"Anti-Drugs Civil Union" NGO, Psychiatric Counselor among drug abuser

The Mental Health and HIV/AIDS Armenian Expert Centre, with support from Global Initiative on Psychiatry, Trainer, Researcher

Lilly&Co Armenia, Psychiatrist, Consultant

Psychiatric Medical Center, Department of 1st Psychotic Episode, Psychiatrist

“A Comparative Study of Olanzapine and Haloperidol in the Treatment of Mental Disorders”, A.M. Kxachaturyan, V.G. Simonyan, K.S. Torosyan, Actual problems of psychiatry, psychotherapy and medical psychology, (Tula, September 3-6, 2008)

“The efficiency of treatment in the clinic of the first psychotic episode”, V.G. Simonyan, Armenian journal of mental health, Official journal of Armenian psychiatric association (1.2013, part-4)

“The effectiveness of psychosocial interventions in patients with a first psychotic episode”, V.G. Simonyan, K.S. Torosyan, Armenian journal of mental health World psychiatric Association Thematic Conference Mental Health and Mental Illness; focusing on Eurasia”, (Yerevan, Armenia, august 29-31, 2013)

“Expansion of the dopamine hypothesis: current trends in the biological treatment of schizophrenia (a review of the materials of the 26th Congress of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology)”, P. Alfimov, V.G. Simonyan, the journal named after P.B. Gannus "Psychiatry and Psychopharmacotherapy" (2014, part-16)

“Aid issues the organization of care for people with schizophrenia (based on the materials of the 22nd Congress of the European Psychiatric Association), D.A. Krupchenko, V.G. Simonyan, The Bulletin of Chuvash Psychiatry and Psychology (2015, part-11)

“New treatment strategies for schizophrenia (a review of the materials of the 27th Congress of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology), A.E. Khmelnitskaya, V.G. Simonayan, The journal named after P.B. Gannus "Psychiatry and Psychopharmacotherapy" Volume 17, Number 4, pp. 25-31, 2015

“The effectiveness of psychosocial interventions in patients with a first episode of schizophrenia”, V.G. Simonyan, K.S.Torosyan, A.G. Mkrtchyan, Mental Health, Direction and Challenges (Regional Conference Tbilisi, April 27-30, 2016)

Webinar on "Anxiety Disorders During the Covid-19 Pandemic"

WPA 2016 regional conference "Mental Health Direction and Challenges", Tbilisi, Georgia

4th International Medical Congress of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia

27th ECNP Congress, Berlin, Germany

Conference "How to fight stigma in mental health services", Yerevan, Armenia

22th European congress of psychiatry, Barcelona, Spain

21th European congress of psychiatry, Nice, France

11th World congress of the World association for Psycho-social rehabilitation Change thinking change Practice change services", Milan, Italy

Evidence-based medicine: myth or reality, Yerevan, Armenia

3rd Young Psychiatrists Network meeting, Minsk, Belarus

International forum epileptologists of the CIS, Yerevan, Armenia

Regional meeting of WPA, Yerevan, Armenia

International congress dedicated to the 90th anniversary of YSMU foundation, Yerevan, Armenia

International conference from adolescence to adulthood normality and psychopathology, Larnaca, Cyprus

Scientific conference “Psychiatry through the eyes of young scientist", Tula, Russia

Local expert for the "Public-private partnership to develop the management of mental illness in Armenia" program