… The Raga Research Centre in Chennai,India. is currently making a comprehensive study of Indian ragas and evaluating their therapeutic potential with the help of musicians, doctors and psychiatrists. It is believed that classical Indian ragas can benefit a whole host of conditions ranging from insomnia, high and low blood pressure to schizophrenia and epilepsy. Quoted here.

This foundation is aptly placed just next to the Govt Music College at Greenways Road. Run and Managed by erstwhile Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan, the violin maestro and now by his son.