About the Book

Tropical neurology is no longer limited to the developing countries of tropics. The world has become a global village and neurological disorders of tropics are very often seen in the temperate zones of the West. The first edition of Neurology in Tropics was published in 1999 and has become a standard reference work. It received glowing reviews from the major national and international journals. There has been remarkable advancement in the field since then, and the second edition has been fully revised, with 24 new chapters. In this edition, 146 leading experts from 23 countries have contributed the sections on CNS Infections, Nutritional Disorders and Neurotoxicology, Neuromuscular Diseases, Cerebrovascular Diseases, Epilepsy, Demyelination, Degeneration, and Miscellaneous Disorders. This book brings in a wealth of knowledge to readers all over the world, be it academic neurologists, practicing neurologists, general physicians, or residents.

About the Author

Jagjit S. Chopra, DCH, FRCPE, PhD, FAMS, FIAN
Prof. Jagjit S. Chopra is currently Professor Emeritus PGIMER and National Academy of Medical Sciences. He completed his medical graduation from Govt. Medical College, Patiala, Punjab, India, and received Neurology training from Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland; fellowship from Royal College of Physicians Edinburg; and doctorate from Queens University, Belfast, UK. He joined the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India, as Chief of Neurology unit in 1968.
He has received large number of national and international awards, orations, and visiting professorships, including the prestigious B.C. Roy National Award and Padma Bhushan—one of the highest civilian awards, awarded by the President of India (2008). He has been Editor in Chief of Neurology India, a journal of Neurological Society of India, and World Neurology (10 years), a publication of World Federation of Neurology. He has been Editor and Co-Editor for 14 books including Neurology in Tropics and has contributed more than 40 chapters in different books.

Inder M.S. Sawhney, MD, DM, FRCP, FIAN
Dr Inder M.S. Sawhney graduated from CMC, Ludhiana, Punjab, India, and was trained in neurology at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India. He was awarded Commonwealth Fellowship for training in Epilepsy in Maudsley and King’s College Hospital, London, UK. He served on the Neurology faculty of the PGIMER, before joining as a Consultant in Morriston Hospital, ABM University Health Board, Wales, UK. He is the clinical lead in Epilepsy and Chair of the Epilepsy group. He has served as Clinical Director Neurosciences, ABM University Health Board and Programme Director Neurology of Wales. His major areas of interest in Neurology are Epilepsy and Tropical Neurology. He has extensively published in national and international journals. He has co-edited 8 books including Neurology in Tropics.

Table of Contents:
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CNS INFECTIONS

1. HIV Infection in The Tropics
Elly T Katabira, Birinder Singh Paul, Gagandeep Singh
2. HTLV-1 Infection in The Tropics
Sarah A Cooper, Graham P Taylor, Antoine Gessain
3. Neurological Complications of Acute Haemorrhagic Conjunctivitis
Indermohan S Sawhney, Gagandeep Singh, Jagjit S Chopra
4. Herpes Simples Encephalitis
U K Misra, J Kalita
5. Japanese Encephalitis
UK Misra, J Kalita
6. Dengue Fever: Neurological Complications
Marzia Puccioni-Sohler, Mauro Jorge Cabral-Castro
7. Nipah Encephalitis
Sherrini Bazir Ahmad, Chong Tin Tan
8. Chikungunya - Neurological complications
J M K Murthy, V Ravi
9. Poliomyelitis
Geraldo Nunes Vieira Rizzo
10. Rabies
Vivek Lal, Manoj Kumar Goyal, Jagjit S Chopra
11. Measles Pathobiology And Central Nervous System Complications
Anita Mahadevan, Satishchandra P, Shankar SK
12. Ebola Virus Disease
Adekanmbi O, Ogunniyi A
13. Leprosy
Tarun Narang, Bhushan Kumar
14. Leprosy in Africa
Adebola Ogunbiyi, Gabrial Ogun
15. Pyogenic Meningitis
M.V.Padma Srivastava, D.Dash, MC Maheshwari, S.Jain
16. Neurobrucellosis
Murat Kutlu, Önder Ergönül
17. Neuroleptospirosis
Satishchandra P, Thomas Mathew
18. Neurological Manifestations of Syphilis
Kathir Yoganathan, Richard Walters
19. Neurological Manifestation of Enteric Fever
Birinder Singh Paul, Gagandeep Singh, Jagjit S Chopra
20. Tuberculous Meningitis
Sudesh Prabhakar, Manish Modi, Dorothee Heemskerk, Thinh Tran Thi Van, Guy Thwaites, B. D. Radotra, Chirag Ahuja, Niranjan Khandelwal, Navneet Singla, S. N. Mathuriya
21. CNS Tuberculomas
Manish Modi, Sudesh Prabhakar, Kirti Gupta, Rakesh Kumar Vasishta, Chirag Ahuja, Niranjan Khandelwal, Vedantam Rajshekhar
22. Amoebic Infections of Central Nervous System
Manoj Kumar Goyal, Manish Modi, Jagjit S Chopra
23. Neurological Complications of Malaria
Dhanpat Kumar Kochar, Abhishek Kochar
24. Human African Trypanosomiasis
Bernard Bouteille, Michel Dumas
25. Neurocysticercosis
Gagandeep Singh, Hector H. Garcia
26. Hydatid Disease of The Central Nervous System
Rajesh Chhabra, Amey Savardekar, S. N. Mathuriya, V. K. Kak
27. Neurofilariasis
Suprabhat Mukherjee, Santi P. Sinha Babu
28. Neuroangiostrongylosis
Josef Finsterer, Herbert Auer
29. Neuroschistosomiasis
Hassan Salama, Enas Hammad, Walid El Sherbiny
30. Neurognathostomiasis
Amira Taman, Hassan Salama, Walid El Sherbiny
31. Onchocerciasis And Its Potential Association With Epilepsy
Andrea Sylvia Winkler
32. Fungal Infections of Central Nervous System in Tropics
J M K Murthy, C Sundaram

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NUTRITIONAL DISORDERS AND NEUROTOXICOLOGY

33. Malnutrition and Nervous System in Children
Jagjit S Chopra, Debal Laha, Debabrata Ghosh, Shyamal Kumar Das
34. Nutrition Rehabilitation of Children With Protein Energy Malnutrition (PEM) in Developing Countries
Umesh Kapil, Neha Sareen
35. Infantile Tremor Syndrome
BNS Walia, D Ghosh, P Jauhari
36. Lathyrism
Jacques Reis, Peter S. Spencer
37. Konzo: A Permanent, Non-Progressive Motor Neuron Disorder
Thorkild Tylleskär, Desire Tshala-Katumbay
38. Tropical Ataxic Neuropathy
Mohan Madhusudanan, Kurupath Radhakrishnan
39. Minamata Disease
Y. Yoshida
40. Neurotoxins in Tropics / India : An Overview
Devika Nag, Ravindra K. Garg, Vinay K. Khanna
41. Marine Neurotoxins
Elijah W. Stommel, Tracie A. Caller, Michael R. Watters
42. Fluorosis
D. Raja Reddy, Palvasha Deme

43. Organophosphorous Poisoning
Birinder Singh Paul, Gagandeep Singh
44. Snake-Bites
David A. Warrell
45. Tetanus
Shyamal Kumar Das, Shankar Prasad Saha, Shibarjun Ghosh

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NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES

46. Tropical Neuropathies
J S Chopra, Vivek Lal, Manoj Kumar Goyal
47. Motor Neuron Disease in Tropics
Bhanu K, Srinivasan A V, Velmurugendran C U
48. Motor Neuron Disease in Africa
Rufus O. Akinyemi, Adesola Ogunniyi
49. Tropical Pyomyositis
Kurupath Radhakrishnan

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CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES

50. Epidemiology of Stroke in Tropics
Shyamal Kumar Das
51. Transient Ischaemic Attack (TIA) – Recent Concepts
Milija D Mijajlovic, PN Sylaja, Natan M. Bornstein
52. Current Concepts of Ischaemic Stroke
M Vasantha Padma, Deepa Dash, Anitha Mahadevan, SK Shankar, Ravi Varma, Suvarna Alladi, Subhash Kaul
53. Uncommon Causes of Ischaemic Stroke
Subhash Kaul, Praveen Kumar Yada, Ravi Varma
54. Secondary Prevention of Transient Ischaemic Attack and Ischaemic Stroke
Praful Dalal , Madhumita Bhattacharjee
55. Intracerebral Haemorrhage
Rohit Bhatia, Awadh Kishor Pandit, Kameshwar Prasad
56. Cerebral Venous - Sinus Thrombosis
D. Nagaraja, Mohammad Wasay, Rita Christopher, Vani Santhosh
57. Stroke Unit in The Tropics
Cynthia Felix, Dheeraj Khurana, Jeyaraj D Pandian
58. Stroke in The Young
José M Ferro, Sudesh Prabhakar, Jagjit S. Chopra

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EPILEPSY

59. Epilepsy in The Tropics
Paulo Rogério Mudrovitsch de Bittencourt, Arturo Carpio, Pierre Marie Preux
60. Central Nervous System Infections And Epilepsy
Gagandeep Singh, IMS Sawhney
61. Hot water Epilepsy
P Satishchandra, S Sinha
62. Refelex Seizures And Reflex Epilepsies in Tropical Countries
Chaturbhuj Rathore, Kurupath Radhakrishnan
63. Surgery For Epilepsy in Tropical Countries
Ramshekhar N. Menon, Kurupath Radhakrishnan

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DEMYELINATION AND DEGENERATION

64. Multiple Sclerosis in Tropics
Bhim Singhal, LekhaPandit
65. Neuromyelitis Optica And Spectrum Disorders
Lekha Pandit, Anu Jacob
66. Post-Infectious And Post –Vaccine Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis
Vinay Goyal, Neha Rai, Chanchal Goyal
67. Neurological Manifestations of Behçet’s Disease
Saadia Aïdi, Maria Benabdeljlil, Mustafa El Alaoui Faris
68. Dementia in Tropics
Manjari Tripathi,Deepa Dash
69. Vascular Dementia
Suvarna Alladi, Subhash Kaul
70. Rapidly Progressive Dementia
Ellajosyula Ratnavalli
71. Dementia in Africa
Adesola Ogunniyi
72. Hereditary Ataxia in The Tropical World
Kalyan B Bhattacharyya

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MISCELLANEOUS

73. History of Tropical Neurology
Kalyan B Bhattacharya
74. Neuroepidemiology For Planning of The Health Structure of The Country
Shyamal Kumar Das
75. Headache Peculiarities in The Tropics
Vivek Lal, Jagjit S. Chopra, Manoj Kumar Goyal, Vishnu VY

76. Heat Stroke
Lesley W Vandermark, William M Adams, Chad Asplund, Douglas J Casa, Yuri Hosokawa
77. Movement Disorders in Tropics
Madhuri Behari, Bhavna Kaul
78. Future Developments in Tropical Neurology
Bhaskar Ghosh, Shyamal Kumar Das
79. Climate Change: What Neurologists Should Know
Jacques Reis, Peter S. Spencer, Pierre Marie
80. Cranio-Vertebral Junction Anomalies
V K Khosla, SK Gupta, Pravin Salunke