AYURVEDIC NEUROPSYCHIATRY: From Manovaha Srotas to Neural Circuits: Rebuilding Psychiatry Through Ayurveda (The Ayurvedic Science Series Book 9)

What if psychiatry is not only the study of the brain, but the study of the whole regulated human being?

Ayurvedic Neuropsychiatry is a bold academic and clinical exploration of mental health through the meeting point of Ayurveda, neuroscience, psychiatry and systems medicine.

Moving from Manovaha Srotas to neural circuits, this book presents a serious framework for understanding the mind not as an isolated brain event, but as an embodied field of regulation involving memory, identity, cognition, digestion, sleep, breath, tissue integrity, resilience and daily rhythm.

Dr. Ankit Kumar develops an original Ayurvedic neuropsychiatric model using classical concepts such as Manas, Buddhi, Smriti, Chitta, Ahamkara, Prana, Agni, Ama, Ojas, Majja Dhatu, Sattva, Rajas, Tamas and Manovaha Srotas, while placing them in disciplined dialogue with modern ideas such as neural circuits, autonomic regulation, neuroplasticity, trauma memory, gut-brain axis, circadian psychiatry, inflammation, cognitive decline and psychiatric assessment.

This book does not reduce Ayurveda into modern biomedical terminology. It also does not reject modern psychiatry. Instead, it builds a responsible bridge between two powerful systems of understanding human suffering.

Inside this book, readers will explore:

• Why the brain alone is not enough to explain mental illness
• How Ayurveda understands mind, memory, cognition, identity and emotional regulation
• Depression, anxiety, psychosis, OCD, addiction, bipolar disorder, dementia, trauma and psychosomatic disorders through Ayurvedic neuropsychiatric models
• The role of Agni, Ama, Ojas, Prana, Dosha, Guna, Srotas and Dhatu in psychiatric presentations
• How to construct Ayurvedic neuropsychiatric assessment formats, scales and research tools
• The therapeutic architecture of Sattvavajaya Chikitsa, Medhya Rasayana, Ahara, Nidra, Dinacharya, Panchakarma, Yoga and Pranayama
• Why integrative psychiatry must be built without intellectual compromise
• How Ayurvedic Neuropsychiatry can become a future research discipline

Written for Ayurveda scholars, clinicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, researchers, postgraduate students, integrative medicine professionals and serious readers of mind-body medicine, this book challenges the superficial use of Ayurveda in mental health and calls for a more rigorous, measurable and clinically responsible model.

Ayurvedic Neuropsychiatry is not a book of shortcuts, miracle cures or wellness slogans.

It is a foundational work for those who believe that the future of mental health must move beyond isolated symptoms and toward the complete architecture of the human being.

Between Manovaha Srotas and neural circuits, a new science is waiting to be built.