Senior Lecturer

1. Dias SR. An agitated patient in a primary care hospital: A case study. Drug Information Bulletin: 1, Issue 4, March 2007.
2. Dias SR. What is good about the old? Clomipramine Drug Information Bulletin. 3: Issue 2, May 2010, p7
3. Dias SR. Novel mode of Paraquat Poisoning. The Ceylon Medical Journal, 54: June 2009.
4.  Dissabandara LO, Dias SR, Dodd PR, Stadlin A.  Patterns of substance use in male incarcerated drug users in Sri Lanka.  Drug Alcohol Rev.November 2009 28(6):600-7.
5.  Dias SR, Samudra Kathriarachchi.  Editorial “ Medical writing in publishing research in the Sri Lanka Journal of Psychiatry – 2010.
6. Goonerathne I, Dias SR. The role of international public health law and human rights discourse on mental health legislation in Sri Lanka. Special article - published in the Sri Lanka Journal of Psychiatry 2010.
7. Jayakodi DHS, Rajapakse B, Perera S, Dias SR, Abeysinghe R. Use of the Bell and Pad method in the management of Nocturnal enuresis, Research News - Sri Lanka Journal of Psychiatry 2010.
8. Dias SR. Use and abuse of Sildenafil. Drug Information Bulletin:1, Issue 4, March 2010
9. Dias SR.  Narcoleptic malignancy syndrome – A Case Report. Sri Lanka Journal of Medicine 2010.
10. Dias SR. Arrhythmias and Risperidone - A Case Report. Drug Information Bulletin: 1, Issue 4, March 2010.
11.  Dias SR. Case Report on Arson and Psychiatry. Sri Lanka Journal of Forensic Medicine, Science and Law, 2010.
12.  Dias SR. Parquet used as a catalyst to increase the percentage of alcohol distillated in illicit brewing industry of Sri Lanka. Journal of Brewing and Distillation. June 2010.
13. Dias SR. What is new? Dapoxetine the ultimate solution for premature ejaculation? Drug information bulletin. 3: Issue 2, May 2010 p8-10.
14.  Lakal O Dissabandara, Natalie J Loxton, Dias SR, Mark Daglish, Alfreda Stadlin. Psychometric properties of Sinhalese versions of Behavioral Inhibition System, Behavioural Activating System (BIS/BAS) scales, Sensation Seeking Scale (SSS) and Sensitivity to Punishment and Sensitivity to Reward Questionnaire (SPSRQ)  Accepted for publication. Sri Lanka Journal of Psychiatry, June 2011.
15. Dias SR. Portrayal of mental illnesses in Sinhalese films; what is shown and what does it mean? A qualitative analysis.  Accepted as the leading article for the Sri Lanka Journal of Medicine, June 2011.
16. Dias SR. Gunarathne I. Do Rituals violate the rights of the mentally ill patients? Sri Lanka Journal of medicine Science and law. Vol.2 No 1 2011.
17. Psychometric properties of three personality inventories translated to Sinhalese, Sri Lanka Journal of Psychiatry Vol. 2 No 1, 2011
18. Lakal O Dissabandara, Natalie J Loxton, Dias SR, Mark Daglish, Alfreda Stadlin. Testing the fear and anxiety distinction in the BIS/BAS scales in community and heroin-dependent samples.  Personality and individual differences 2012  Vol 52, 888-892
19.  Dias SR. Descriptive study of the postgraduate education plans of intern medical graduates and eliciting the determining factors.  
20.  Dias SR. How the expression of grief in Sinhala Buddhist and Muslim community in rural Sri Lanka fits with the five stage model of grief proposed by Murry Parkers (Unpublished - Manuscript in preparation).
21. Dias SR. Depression and Alcohol dependence are the main Risk factors associated with deliberate self harm, in central province of Sri Lanka (Accepted by SMJ)
22. Dias SR. Descriptive study of the postgraduate education plans of intern medical graduates and eliciting the determining factors. (Accepted by Jaffna Medical Journal)
23. Dias SR. Effects of long term lithium treatment on creatinine clearance in a Sri Lankan population (Unpublished – send to SJM).
24. Abeyasinghe R, Dawson A, Siriwardane P, Dias SR, Tennekoon S A. Randomized control trial of a community based Alcohol Education Programme to changing the drinking pattern in rural Sri Lanka. (Unpublished - Manuscript in preparation).

1. 34th Annual Academic Sessions 2012, Kandy Society of Medicine. “Study on Demography and Behavioural Patterns of Patients Staying in the Night Hours for the Following Day Clinic in the Teaching Hospital, Kandy”.  9th – 11th February 2012. Best Research Paper.
2. Proceedings and Abstracts of the 34th Annual Academic Sessions of the Kandy Society of Medicine – 2012. “Study on Demography Behavioural Patterns of Patients Staying in the Night Hours for the Following Day Clinic in the Teaching Hospital, Kandy”.  Best Oral Presentation.
3. Annual Academic Sessions 2010, Sri Lanka College of Psychiatrists in Collaboration with Sri Lankan Psychiatrists’ Association (UK). A randomized control trial of a community based Alcohol Education Programme in Changing the Drinking Pattern in Rural Sri Lanka. 25th – 28th February 2010.
4. The Journal of Sexual Medicine.  “Myths Regarding Sex Among Male University Students in Sri Lanka. J Sex Med 2009; 6(suppl 5): 429-479. PO-03-028
5. 13th Pacific Rim College of Psychiatrist Scientific Meeting, Japan. “Descriptive Study of the Pattern of Deliberate Self Harm (DSH) in Sri Lanka”.  October 30- November 2, 2008, Tokyo, Japan. OSO1-5.
6. NIDA International Form, Quebec City, Canada. “Characteristics of Male Drug Users in a Prison Population in Sri Lanka. June 15-18, 2007.
7. 8th Annual Academic Sessions, Postgraduate Medical Centre, General Hospital (Teaching) Kandy. “Laminated Man”.  December 2004.
8. The Journal of Sexual Medicine. “Descriptive Study of Sexual Behaviour of Male University Students in Sri Lanka. J Sex Med 2009; 6 (suppl 5): 429-479. PO-03-029
9. 13th Pacific Rim College of Psychiatrist Scientific Meeting, Japan. “Post Graduate Training in Psychiatry in Sri Lanka”.  October 30- November 2, 2008, Tokyo, Japan. SY43-2.
10. Sri Lanka Psychiatric Association Annual Scientific Sessions 2000-2001. “A Comparison of the Morbidity Pattern of Psychiatric Disorders Encountered in the Public and Private Sectors. 29th April 2001.
11. Peradeniya University Research Sessions PURSE – 2006. “Do Rituals Violate the Rights of the Mentally Ill Patient”?  Volume 11, November 30, 2006.
12. Peradeniya University Research Sessions PURSE – 2006. “Psychogenic Polydipsia and Water Intoxication in Chronic Schizophrenia”: A Case Presentation. Volume 11, November 30, 2006.
13. Peradeniya University Research Sessions PURSE – 2006. “Prevalence of Intestinal Helminthiasis in a Mental Hospital in Sri Lanka”.  Volume 11, November 30, 2006.
14. Peradeniya University Research Sessions PURSE – 2006. “Prevalence of Ectoparasitic Infestations in Patients in a Mental Hospital”.  Volume 11, November 30, 2006.
15. 121st Annual Scientific Sesscions, Sri Lanka Medical Association. “Paraquat – A Novel Mode of Catalyst in the Processing of Kassippu (Illicit Brew). 19th – 22nd March 2008
16. 29th Annual Academic Sessions. The Kandy Society of Medicine. “Drug and Alcohol Misuse in a Sri Lankan Prison Population”. 22nd,  23rd and 24th February 2007.
17. 29th Annual Academic Sessions. The Kandy Society of Medicine. “Medical Graduates who Sought Entrance from less Affluent Districts are Reluctant to Serve these Districts in Return”. 22nd,  23rd and 24th February 2007.
18. 8th Annual Academic Sessions. Postgraduate Medical Centre, General Hospital (Teaching), Kandy. “Insight, Culture and Mental Illness”. December 2004.
19. Peradeniya University Research Sessions (PURSE) – 2011. “Descriptive Study of Sexual Relationships Prevalent within a University in Sri Lanka”. p.216, Vol.16, 24th November 2011.
20. Peradeniya University Research Sessions (PURSE) – 2011. “Effects of Long Term Lithium Treatment of Renal Function”. p.104 Vol.16, 24th November 2011.
21. Peradeniya University Research Sessions (PURSE) – 2011. “Friendship Among University Students: A Case Study of the University of Peradeniya. p.215, Vol.16, 24th November 2011.
22. Peradeniya University Research Sessions (PURSE) – 2011. “Pilot Study of Clozapine Treatment in Patients Suffering from Resistant Schizophrenia”. p.98, Vol.16, 24th November 2011.
23. Peradeniya University Research Sessions (PURSE) – 2011. “Descriptive Psychopathology of Obsessions and Compulsions of a Clinic Population of Patients with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder”. p.97, Vol.16, 24th November 2011.
24. Peradeniya University Research Sessions PURSE – 2008, Volume 13 – Part I. “How People Interpret SMS in Distorted Language? The Perceptual Principals Behind it”. p.267, Vol.13, 18th December 2008.
25. Peradeniya University Research Sessions PURSE – 2008, Volume 13 – Part I. “The Expression of Grief in the Context of Sinhalese and Muslim Communities in Sri Lanka”. p.257, Vol.13, 18th December 2008.
26. Peradeniya University Research Sessions PURSE – 2008, Volume 13 – Part I. “Portrayal of Psychiatric Disorders in Sinhala Cinema”. p.73, Vol.13, 18th December 2008.
27. Kandy Society of Medicine, Foundation Session, 15th September 2006 PGRC, Gannoruwa, Kandy, Sri Lanka. “Audit of Alcohol Related Service Users at the Teaching Hospital Peradeniya over 24 years”.
28. Peradeniya University Research Sessions PURSE – 2009, Volume 14. “The Potrayal of the Psychiatric Patient (Violet) in the Film Pawuru Walalu: A Case Study”. Vol.14, 3rd  December 2009.

1. Your Child Your Family   (Book 1) Segment  46 - Parenting  p 49-51
2. In Honor of Herbert Allan Aponso  Edited by Ananda Jayasinghe    p125-127
   
3. The Promised Land.  A novel, in its 3 draft state currently, is to be published in January 1213. (The draft is to be send as a candidate for the Gratian Award 1213)
4. Counseling for us by us ( 2nd Draft)
   
5. Upadeshanaya ( 1st Draft)