MindGames Winners Have (Almost) All the Answers

WHODAS?

No, it’s not some new internet slang—it’s the abbreviation for the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule, and also the answer to the final question of the 2025 MindGames Live competition: “This standard method for assessing disability levels in psychiatric disorders replaced the Global Assessment of Functioning scale in DSM-5-TR.”

If you wouldn’t have guessed the answer to this, don’t feel bad. None of the three teams of residents competing in MindGames knew either. However, thanks to their overall knowledge in the previous rounds and a smart betting strategy, the team from the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell (Majid Hamidi, D.O., Victor Kekere, M.D., and Sercan Ture, D.O.) took home the prize.

The Zucker team beat out resident teams from SUNY Downstate University (Mitchell Bayne, M.D., M.P.H., Alexander Ortiz, M.D., and Amanda Wildstein, M.D.) and Penn State School of Medicine (John Garman, M.D., Dallas Hamlin, M.D., and Anil Kalyoncu, M.D.)

Three experienced and eager psychiatrists then had their turn at the MindGames Masters competition: Sanjay Chandragiri, M.D., a psychiatrist in Dunmore, Pennsylvania, who works with the Scranton Counseling Center and other clinics in the area; Vikas Gupta, M.D., founder and CEO of Wellness Psychiatry as well as vice chair of the 2025 Annual Meeting Scientific Program Committee, chair of the Poster Subcommittee, and Co-chair of the Courses Subcommittee; and Sudhakar Shenoy, M.D., a psychiatrist in Chicago and APA’s ECP Trustee at Large.

After two spirited rounds that included a little confusion on the gameplay and a short break to repair a dislodged buzzer, the finalists were ready for their final question on the topic of history: “This masked psychiatrist gave a speech at the APA Annual Meeting in 1972 which was instrumental in APA’s decision to remove homosexuality as a mental illness.”

Once again, the final question stumped all three, but thanks to his sizeable lead entering the finals, Gupta walked away the champion. Congratulations to him, the Zucker team, and all participating contestants!

By the way, do you know the answer to the final MindGames Masters question? Find out here. ■