Research and Collaborations:

ISCM has been constantly adding to research-based, empirical evidence that has been published in national and international journals highlighting immediate, short term as well as long-term, health-enhancing benefits and its research outcomes include:

· 54 completed research projects
· 25 ongoing research projects
· 203 published research and review papers
· 2 books and 11 invited chapters in books
· 23 copyrights in the name of SBV
· 18 compilations
· 50 abstracts

The inter-disciplinary, collaborative studies have been done with the Faculty of Medicine (departments of Psychiatry, General Medicine, Pulmonology, ENT, Ophthalmology, Gastroenterology, Dermatology, Obstetrics & Gynaecology), Faculty of Nursing, and Faculty of Dentistry. They have been done for the under-served communities of Special Children, Senior Citizens, and the Transgender community in Pondicherry. The overall finding in our works is that yoga and music as adjuvant therapy are found to halt disease progression and that such an integrative approach can enhance patient care with regard to COPD, depression, alcoholic deaddiction, diabetes mellitus, bronchial asthma, hypertension, autism spectrum disorder, etc.