B. Division of Yoga and Life Sciences

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This Division offers short-term courses and elective courses (to be chosen by MSc and PhD students). The Department of Health Sciences is attached with a 160 beds yoga therapy Health Home (Arogyadhama) meant to not only treat the yoga therapy participants (we do not call them patients) suffering from various modern ailments but also draw normal persons for prevention of possible illness and promotion of positive health by the Integrated Approach of Yoga Therapy (IAYT). The students will not only acquire theoretical knowledge and practical experience by their own yoga practices but also get the rich experience of working with doctors, senior yoga therapists and with the yoga therapy participants. Handling them under severe conditions of the diseases immensely help them to become confident of their learning and usefulness of IAYT. The research section with modern gadgets helps them to measure the changes in these participants to assess the improvements. The Department of Bio-Sciences includes the following laboratories: the psychophysiology, Neuro-psychology, sleep lab, metabolic analyzer lab, immune lab, bio-chemistry and psychology labs. It is here that the students get the necessary training to do research of international standards. The modern scientific research is applied to esoteric dimensions of tradition as well as investigations into the paranormal. Essentially this department is meant for the basic research to understand the effects of various yoga practices on human systems. The Department of Natural Sciences has 8 sections encompassing a large spectrum of living systems and their changes due to interactions with human beings. The effect of Agnihotra, Sound, Music, Vedic chanting etc. on plants and animals is studied in great detail in this department. The department includes agricultural farms, gardens, forests, horticultural plants and a GoSala with more than 100 cows. The usefulness of cowdung, Gomutra or urine of cows as possible medicines is also studied.

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    A Scientific Evaluation of Yoga in The Prevention and Management of Coronary Artery Disease.
    (Swami Vivekananda Yoga Research Foundation,, 2010) Naveen, K.V.
    Role of yoga: Prevention Management Rehabilitation
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    Yoga Therapy in the management of
    (2010) Naveen, K.V.
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    Yoga Reduces Symptoms of Distress In Tsunami Survivors 5 in the Andaman Islands
    (eCAM, 2007-01-01) Telles Shirley; Naveen, K.V.; Manoj Dash
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    Effect of yoga on musculoskeletal discomfort and motor functions in Professional Computer Users.
    (2009) Telles Shirley; Manoj Dash; Naveen, K.V.
    This self rated musculoskeletal Discompart hand grip,streegnth typing speed.
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    Use of AyUse of Ayurveda in promoting dental health and preventing dental caries
    (Indian J Dent Res,, 2009-08-03) Telles, Shirley; Naveen, K.V.; Acharya Balakrishna
    Use of AyUse of Ayurveda in promoting dental health and preventing dental caries
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    Yoga and psychosis: risks and therapeutic potential.
    (Journal of Indian Psychology, 2003) Naveen, K.V.; Telles, Shirley
    There is a strong interest in the correlation between yoga (especially meditation)and psychosis. some reports have described:1)appearance of psychotic. symptoms episodes in those with a history of psychosis, after meditation.2)precipitation of acute psychotic episodes in those with a history of psychosis.
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    Psychophysiological effects of colored light used in healing.
    (World journal of medical science, 2006-06) Naveen, K.V.; Telles, Shirley
    Chromotherapy uses colored light for healing. The present study assessed the physiological effects of blue and red light in normal volunteers, as these colors were believed to have opposite physiological effects. Fifteen male volunteers (age range 17 to 29 years) were studied in two sessions each. Each session lasted for 40 min, with a test period of 30 min, preceded and followed by two 5-min periods without colored light. Throughout both sessions, subjects lay supine with eyes closed. The room was illuminated with ordinary light during the pre and post periods of both sessions. During the test period, blue light was used for one session, while red light was used for the other. The heart rate, skin resistance, finger plethysmogram amplitude, breath rate, blood pressure and electroencephalogram (EEG) were measured. There was a significant reduction in the breath rate during exposure to blue light and the diastolic blood pressure reduced immediately after exposure to blue light, compared to the preceding period (t-test for paired data). The results suggest that blue light reduces physiological arousal, supporting the claim that blue light can be used to induce physiological rest. Red light did not have a stimulating effect in this study.
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    Effect of yoga on self-rated visual discomfort in computer users.
    (Head and face medicine, 2006) Telles, Shirley; Naveen, K.V.; Dash, Manoj; Deginal, R.; Manjunath N.K.
    Dry eye' appears to be the main contributor to the symptoms of computer vision syndrome. Regular breaks and the use of artificial tears or certain eye drops are some of the options to reduce visual discomfort. A combination of yoga practices have been shown to reduce visual strain in persons with progressive myopia. The present randomized controlled trial was planned to evaluate the effect of a combination of yoga practices on self-rated symptoms of visual discomfort in professional computer users in Bangalore.
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    Randomized trial of yoga as a complementary therapy for pulmonary tuberculosis
    (Respirology,, 2004) Naveen, K.V.; Telles, Shirley
    Objective: The present prospective, randomized trial compared the efficacy of anti-tuberculosis treatment (ATT) with two separate programs (yoga and breath awareness), on lung capacities and bacteriological status in pulmonary tuberculosis patients. Methodology: A total of 1009 pulmonary tuberculosis patients were screened and 73 were alternately allocated, to yoga ( n = 36) or breath awareness ( n = 37) groups, with 48 patients completing the 2-month trial. Patients aged between 20 and 55 years, who were sputum-positive on three consecutive examinations, had no prior ATT, and no comorbidities or extrapulmonary tuberculosis were included. In addition to ATT, one group practised yoga ( n = 25) and the other practised breath awareness ( n = 23) for 6 h per week, each session being 60 min.
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    Sudomotor sympathetic hypofunction in Down’s syndrome
    (Indian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology, 1999-06-28) Naveen, K.V.; Telles, Shirley
    General sympathetic dysfunction has been proposed as an explanation for the inability to reach normal heightened attention in Down's syndrome (DS). The present study on 15 DS subjects (group average age ± SD, 14.3 ± 3.6 years; 11 males) and in an equal number of age - and gender - matched normal subjects (NS), evaluated activity in different subdivisions of the sympathetic nervous system. DS subjects had (i) lower skin conductance levels (i.e., lower sudomotor sympathetic activity) and (ii) higher heart rates than NS. In response to auditory stimuli, DS subjects showed abnormal SSR responses (also indicating sudomotor sympathetic activity) but normal cutaneous vasoconstriction. Hence the results suggest that sympathetic dysfunction in DS is restricted to the sudomotor subdivision, activity of which has been associated with attention and recognition.
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