Indar Kumar Sharawat, Prateek Kumar Panda,
Incontinentia pigmenti (IP) or Bloch-Sulzberger's disease is a rare neurocutaneous syndrome with dermatological, neurologic, and systemic manifestations including retinal, dental and hair abnormalities. It follows X-linked dominant inheritance and predominantly affects female children. The characteristic evolution of skin lesions in four stages is a hallmark diagnostic feature of the disease. ... Read more >>
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(2):325-328]
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Bashar Abuzayed, Khaled Alawneh, Majdi Al Qawasmeh, Liqaa Raffee,
A 21-year-old male patient was operated for third ventricle tumor (central neurocytoma) and showed improvement in the early postoperative period. After 2 weeks of surgery, the patient neurologic status deteriorated with acute decreased level of consciousness. Neuroimaging of the brain revealed entrapped left temporo-occipital horns with adhesion bands at the ... Read more >>
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(2):337-340]
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Akshay Anand, Sudesh Prabhakar, Keshav Thakur, Rahul Tyagi, Vinod Shastri, Devi Prasad Tripathi, Suresh Sharma,
Background The past three decades have seen palmistry as an interface to human health. There have been no previously organized attempts in utilizing this knowledge to predict the state of disease. Objective Due to unavailability of any biological marker for diagnosing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) till date, we attempt to ... Read more >>
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(2):256-260]
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Gabriel A Quiñones-Ossa, Y A Durango-Espinosa, H Padilla-Zambrano, Jenny Ruiz, Luis Rafael Moscote-Salazar, S Galwankar, J Gerber, R Hollandx, Amrita Ghosh, R Pal, Amit Agrawal,
Tracheostomy is the commonest bedside surgical procedure performed on patients needing mechanical ventilation with traumatic brain injury (TBI). The researchers made an effort to organize a narrative review of the indications, timing, management, complications, and outcomes of tracheostomy in relation to neuronal and brain-injured patients following TBI. The study observations ... Read more >>
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(2):222-229]
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Vaios Peritogiannis, Panagiota Gioti, Afroditi Gogou,
There is a dearth of studies on gambling problems in patients with psychotic disorders. A retrospective chart review of treatment-engaged rural patients was performed. From a total of 79 patients that were included in the study, 6 had a history of gambling problems, whereas the 1-year prevalence was 5%. Most ... Read more >>
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(2):333-336]
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Chittaranjan Subudhi, Ramakrishna Biswal, J Raja Meenakshi,
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(2):361-362]
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Rajeev Sharma, Prasenjit Das, Arvind Kairo, Shashank S Kale,
Drug-induced gingival overgrowth (DIGO) secondary to chronic phenytoin intake for seizure control is a well-recognized phenomenon. Phenytoin-induced gingival overgrowth (PIGO) usually resolves gradually following cessation of phenytoin intake. It is usually seen throughout the dentate regions of the maxillary and mandibular dental arches, but more severely affect their anterior portions ... Read more >>
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(2):349-352]
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Ambuj Kumar, Subhash Sahu, Shivank Sethi, Shailendra Ratre, Vijay Parihar, Narayan Swamy, Yad Ram Yadav,
Objective Normal cervical spine canal morphometry is critical for understanding the pathology of certain diseases and for proper preoperative planning. Computerized tomography (CT) scan can replace older conventional radiography techniques by providing more accurate morphometric measurements. This study was aimed to find out various dimensions of the cervical spinal canal ... Read more >>
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(2):274-277]
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Ramdas S Ransing, Girish Agrawal, Koustubh Bagul, Krishna Pevekar,
Background The delivery of mental health services largely depends on the adequacy of human resources. In India, the deficit of psychiatrists is more than 90% and is one of the major challenges that needs to be tackled to address the huge burden of mental illness. Psychiatry trainee institutes play a ... Read more >>
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(2):299-308]
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Muhammad Noushad, Shakya Bhattacharjee,
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(2):357-358]
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Elanagan Nagarajan, Lakshmi P Digala, Pradeep C Bollu,
Painless legs and moving toes syndrome is a rare movement disorder. Various conditions like spinal cord trauma, lumbar radiculopathy, peripheral neuropathy, neuroleptic treatment, or traumatic lesions of the soft tissues of the foot can present with this disorder. In our case report, we aim to report a case of a ... Read more >>
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(2):341-342]
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Karthick Subramanian, Vikas Menon, Siddharth Sarkar, Vigneshvar Chandrasekaran, Nivedhitha Selvakumar,
Background Suicide is the leading contributor to mortality in bipolar disorder (BD). A history of suicidal attempt is a robust predictive marker for future suicide attempts. Personality profiles and coping strategies are the areas of contemporary research in bipolar suicides apart from clinical and demographic risk factors. However, similar research ... Read more >>
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(2):291-298]
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Salil Gupta, Nirmala Venugopal,
Background Asymptomatic neurocognitive impairment (ANI) in people living with HIV (PLWH) can lower quality of life, reduce drug compliance, increase unemployment, and reduce life expectancy. Objective This study was aimed to identify risk factors of ANI in PLWH in an Indian cohort and explore the usefulness of Mini Mental State ... Read more >>
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(2):230-236]
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Josef Finsterer, Claudia Stöllberger, Hans Keller, Franco Laccone,
Genetic work-up is useful for the identification of a primary myopathy. However, even sophisticated genetic methods may fail to detect the underlying cause of myopathy as in the following case. The patient is a 52-year-old female with a history of epilepsy, arterial hypertension, atrial flutter requiring cardioversion, ablation, and anticoagulation, ... Read more >>
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(2):353-354]
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Deepak Agrawal, P S Chandra, P K Singh, R Meena, R Doddamani, A Jagdevan, S Mishra, K Garg,
Background Neurological patients who are ventilator-dependent occupy scarce beds in the hospitals for prolonged periods of time. Most, if not all, can be discharged on home mechanical ventilation (HMV). However, due to lack of insurance and state support, it remains prohibitively expensive for the vast majority of those who require ... Read more >>
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(2):329-332]
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Arshdeep Kaur Sethi, Vineeta Singh, Rameshwar Nath Chaurasia, Deepika Joshi, Abhishek Pathak, Shivani Rath, Ashutosh Mishra, Vijay Nath Mishra,
Background Religious and sociocultural beliefs influence the nature of treatment and care received by people with epilepsy. Objective This study aimed to study knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) among epilepsy patients in north India. Materials and Methods In this study, 201 patients attending the outpatient and inpatient services of the ... Read more >>
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(2):278-285]
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J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(2):221]
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Pradeep R, Dhananjay Gupta, Nikith Shetty, Anjani Kumar Bhushan, Krishna Haskar, Sujana Gogineni, Anish Mehta, Mahendra Javali, Purshottam T Acharya, Rangasetty Srinivasa,
Background Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is a disorder of unknown origin, characterized by features of raised intracranial pressure (ICP). Existing literature is inconclusive about the role of transcranial Doppler (TCD) in the management of IIH. Objective To study the TCD changes in IIH patients, pre- and post-cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) drainage. ... Read more >>
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(2):309-314]
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Debjyoti Dhar, Hansashree Padmanabha, Pooja Mailankody, Sadanandavalli R Chandra, Gautham Arunachal, Praveen Sharma P,
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(2):359-360]
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Sandeep Bhardwaj, Ashish Sharma, Akangsha Sharma,
Mesenchymal chondrosarcoma of the brain is one of the rarest tumors with dismal prognosis. A 26-year-old man presented with headache, vomiting, and diplopia. On evaluation, a moderately enhancing extra-axial lesion was seen in right temporal region involving right greater wing of sphenoid, adjacent right maxillary sinus, and lateral wall of ... Read more >>
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(2):344-348]
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