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Dr Ramya Mohan is a British doctor,

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, Dr Ramya Mohan, Oliver Wass In Tune, ''BBC Radio 3'', 12 May 2016. Retrieved 24 November 2016. of Indian descent. She studied at Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute">Bangalore Medical College Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute (BMCRI), (Beṅgaḷūru Vaidyakīya Mahāvidyālaya mattu Sanśōdhanā Sansthé) formerly Bangalore Medical College (BMC), is a medical college run by the Government of Karnataka. It is located ...

(BMC) in Bangalore,

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and later worked as a senior consultant in the UK for the

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Early life

Dr Ramya was involved in art before going to medical college. She's an alumna of Bangalore Medical College (BMC) where she obtained her degree in M.B.B.S. In 1993, she won the Prime Minister’s medal for creating a marble art mural for

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. The award was presented to her by then Prime Minister of India, P.V. Narasimha Rao. She later discovered during her psychiatric training she could use art to aid recovery and communication in children. Ramya Mohan interacting with guests

Career

Medicine and Psychiatry

She is known for her work in the field of Clinical

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by integrating

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with the

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. Since 2008, she has been with

as a Senior Consultant Psychiatrist and a Medical Educator. She employs her self-developed therapeutic technique ‘CAPE: Creative Arts for Processing Emotions’ where she uses music & art as media to support emotional well-being, cure

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and aid

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. In 2015, she founded iMANAS London, an organisation created to promote the integration of medicine, arts and neuroscience. In May 2016, she released her self-guided therapeutic technique ‘CAPE: Creative Arts for Processing Emotions’ in collaboration with the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, musicians and linguists. This technique has a basis in her Neuroscience research on music, emotions and the brain (Presented at the

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conference, the

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International Conference and published in

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, bringing together Eastern and Western music and well-evidenced therapeutic techniques like mindfulness,

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and CBT to support self-guided emotional processing and regulation. Dr Mohan has composed the vocals and lent her voice to this project; a collaborative effort with well-known musicians and linguists. CAPE has been referenced and featured in various media publications namely The Huffington Post and Deccan Herald.

Singing-songwriting and music composing

Dr Ramya has received formal training in

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and Hindustani Music. She has performed in classical, semi-classical and contemporary music at venues in the UK and India. In 2016 she released an album, ''CAPE'' (in the

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and

) of Western and Indian music with vocals in

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. The album was designed to allow the listener to cope with mental illness.

Art

Dr Ramya's artwork has been displayed in exhibitions in UK and India. In May 2016, she spoke on

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's ''In Tune'', about her art exhibition at the

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Recognition

In May 2016, Dr Ramya was invited by the cultural wing of the Indian High Commission UK, Ministry of external affairs, to talk on the topic 'Science, Art and Creativity: A mosaic of the human mind’. In September 2016, she was one of the contributors to the Mental Wealth Festival in London, which had participation by various individuals from the fields of medicine, arts, music, politics and community development.

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