Dr Shantala researches the healing abilities of Raga music

Dr Shantala researches the healing abilities of Raga music

The synergy of music and science is an interesting topic to know more about. It’s been a good few years that DesiYUP connected with clinical neuropsychologist Dr. Shantala Hegde from India. She is a clinical and public health intermediate fellow of the India Alliance...
Teach Your Children Music To Make Them Smarter

Teach Your Children Music To Make Them Smarter

DesiYUP founder Mahesvari Autar talking to kids about her book Radha’s eerste concert where the protagonist of the book learns to play music with a bansuri (flute) at de Bijenkorf Rotterdam Recently more scientific studies are being conducted to understand the...
The ultimate cause of disease is stress

The ultimate cause of disease is stress

“Playing music with others or enjoying live music stimulates the cuddle hormone oxytocin.” Tabla player Yama Sarshar performing during the Eindeloos India Festival in de Doelen Everyone is familiar with stress, yet most of us struggle to prevent or alleviate its...
Harmony in Leadership: Navigating the Melodies

Harmony in Leadership: Navigating the Melodies

Meet MindZ, or as we like to call it, “Muziek in de Zorg,” is an initiative of medical students at Erasmus MC. This aims at making music a part of the medical world’s heartbeat.To spark connections between medical students and the music community,...
The Mozart-effect in Hospitals

The Mozart-effect in Hospitals

MAM (Music as Medicine) Foundation is doing research on music as an innovative method for medical treatments in and outside the medical health care system their research is ‘evidence based’.