Anand Venkatraman

Classical Indian philosophy's four-stage model of speech production maps onto distinct aphasiological syndromes in modern neurology.

Hindu Tantra's ordering of the five senses from grossest to subtlest parallels sensorimotor cortex organization and the evolutionary development of sensory cortices across vertebrates.

The mismatch in metaphysical lens — not scientific standards — explains most "is Ayurveda scientific" debates; reading it on its own first-person terms dissolves most of them.

In Yoga and Vedānta, deep absorption states that resemble Buddhist nirodha samāpatti are read not as consciousness ceasing but as its clearer revelation.

Long-practicing Tantrikas documented genuine first-person changes in their nervous systems; this paper proposes a framework for reading those records against modern neuroscience.

Abhinavagupta's 11th-century model of consciousness maps closely onto the modern clinical Arousal + Awareness framework.

Classical Indian philosophers independently arrived at a multi-stage speech-production model that anticipates how modern neurologists describe the same process.

A review of brainstem nuclei and their contribution to the arousal, autonomic, and somatosensory networks underlying emotional experience.

Whether a single ancient seal motif ties together Chinese, Indus Valley, and Tamil Sangam religious imagery.

Anti-vaccine views dominated the least-moderated platforms, suggesting platform moderation shapes which views the public actually encounters.

Early Google and Bing results during the Zika outbreak often contradicted CDC guidance — an early study of search-engine misinformation in a live epidemic.

Abhinavagupta's Kashmir Shaivite philosophy — prakāśa-vimarśa, "inner touch," memory — read as a first-person account of the nervous system.

Julian Jaynes's bicameral-mind hypothesis and split-brain research in conversation with classical Indic ideas about mind and self.

With Giriratna Mishra, on the esoteric tradition that treats Sanskrit's alphabet and grammar as encoding something deeper than ordinary language.

On mātṛkā śakti, the mālinī ordering of the Sanskrit alphabet, and how mantra practice draws on both to work with kundalini energy.

Hindu philosophy frames death as a transition that is in a real sense illusory; in conversation with what science knows about the dying process.

A Grand Rounds lecture surveying what's known about how meditation and yoga affect the nervous system.

A candid conversation with crystallographer Gautam Desiraju on why Indian science hasn't matched the country's talent, and why that's about institutional culture rather than ability.

An interview with Dr. Yogesh Kalkonde on his work in rural public health and neurology in India.

What biological brain networks can and can't teach us about building AI.