Mr. Keshav Desiraju appreciated NIMHANS for its broad outlook in adopting modern and ancient systems of medicine and underscored the need for communicating to the public that mental illness is not something to be ashamed of and is an illness like any other. Dr. Satish Chandra added that NIMHANS has had an Ayurveda unit in collaboration with AYUSH for a long time and that he himself has done research with yoga adjuvant therapy in patients with refractory epilepsy. There are several ongoing research projects in NIMHANS using modern and ancient systems of medicine.
Dr. Satish Chandra then remembered that Dr. T Desiraju, who was an esteemed scientist from the Department of Neurophysiology, had worked on Project Consciousness more than 20 years ago.