Our journey towards providing comprehensive brain, spine and mind care began in 1965, when Prof. Krishnamoorthy Srinivas our founder returned from Canada and the UK after eight years of intensive training with the best neurologists and neuroscientists at the time.

As a well qualified and trained professional with a double MRCP (soon to acquire DM in Neurology, the first in the country and later be elected the youngest FRCP of 3 Royal Colleges), he established his clinical practice in the Mylapore area. Mylapore has for long been the home of Chennai intelligentsia and traditionally boasts a well read and aware population with contemporary expectations.

Serving in this environment, it was not long before he recognized the differing neurological requirements of the community from what hospitals and institutes were delivering. He intelligently perceived the felt need at community level for rehabilitation services that were of a high quality yet easily accessible, humane and responsive to patient needs. He could see even then that neurological and psychiatric disorders were closely allied with each other; were often a reflection of underlying emotional stress; and needed comprehensive care that went beyond drugs and prescriptions. Thus was born his vision of a community based comprehensive clinical service that tackled neurological disorders through physical and psychological therapy.

Over four decades our founder has grown in stature to become one of India's (even the world's) most celebrated neurologists. He is the recipient of many awards, honors and distinctions; most significant of these perhaps being the dual distinction of Honorary Membership of the American Neurological Association (2003) and American Academy of Neurology (2004), the first Indian to be so honored. He has as professor at the Madras Institute of Neurology- Madras Medical College taught legions of students (Neurology, Psychiatry, General Medicine and allied specialties) and continue to teach and mentor several even today. He has through his own philanthropy of time and sense of social responsibility; and through the philanthropy of friends, well-wishers, patients and corporate houses; developed community neurology departments of excellence at the Voluntary Health Services Hospital (Taramani, Chennai- 600113) and Public Health Centre (West Mambalam, Chennai- 600033). He has also developed through his mentorship, sharing of knowledge and training a team of professionals who specialize in the provision of comprehensive brain, spine and mind care.

His inspiration and mentorship encouraged his son and our Director and Senior Consultant Prof. ES Krishnamoorthy to enter the world of medicine and to subsequently train in Psychiatry acquiring the MD at the prestigious Manipal Group of institutions. He then was awarded the Paul Hamlyn Fellowship for the Diploma in Clinical Neurology and subsequent Neuropsychiatry training at the prestigious Institute of Neurology and National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery at Queen Square, London, a world class centre of excellence. A year long stint as resident in Neurology at the Royal Victoria Infirmary and Newcastle General Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne followed. Prof. ES Krishnamoorthy was then awarded in competition the Raymond Way Fellowship in Behavioral Neurology under the tutelage of Prof. Michael Trimble at the Institute of Neurology, Queen Square. In this position (equivalent to Lecturer and Senior Registrar) he managed in-patient and out-patient services in epilepsy, Tourette's syndrome and neuropsychiatry apart from carrying our world-class research in these areas. A brief leadership stint establishing an Epidemiology and Clinical Research Unit at the National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore followed, after which he returned to India as the first comprehensively trained "Behavioral Neurologist, Neuropsychiatrist & Clinical Neuroscientist".

Following his return Chennai in 2002, our services have witnessed considerable augmentation and development in response to societal changes and needs. We moved to a central and permanent location that combines aesthetic appeal with comfort and pragmatism. We have grown in scope to offer a wide variety of investigations and treatments under one roof. We have a comprehensive neurophysiology laboratory and offer comprehensive neurological and psychiatric assessments and treatment services. Our service now includes a range of physical therapies (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation, Interferential Therapy, Ultrasound, Short Wave Diathermy etc.) that aim to improve physical and occupational functioning and reduce disability. We also offer a very wide range of psychological therapies (Jacobson's Progressive Muscular Relaxation techniques, counseling, cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), cognitive retraining therapy (CRT), cognitive analytical models of therapy, short term psychodynamic therapy and a range of counseling services targeting schoolchildren, adolescents & young adults, couples and families, martial and sexual counseling etc. We have developed a range of programs that address the needs of the confused career aspirant, the busy professional with physical and emotional stress, children with special needs (emotional, behavioral and physical), adolescents, adults and elderly.

Indeed, we now are a unique model of community based comprehensive neuropsychiatric care, with no parallels in India and few parallels internationally, working as a team to improve the quality, of life both for the patient and the family.