Surendra Jain, Keshav Mishra, Ashok Gandhi, Deepak Garg,
Traumatic spondylolisthesis of axis or hangman's fracture is the second most common C2 vertebra injury. We present a report of a young man presenting with a history of fall from height with C2 to C3 spondylolisthesis without any evidence of injury to pars interarticularis but with associated injury to capsular ... Read more >>
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(4):663-666]
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Tarannum Ahmed, , Rajesh Kumar, Yogesh Bahurupi,
<b>Background</b> Stroke is one of the most debilitating conditions contributing to significant disability and death globally. Identifying risk factors for quality of life (QoL) will enable to improve home-based rehabilitation in post-stroke phase. <b>Objective</b> This study was aimed to identify the risk factors of QoL in stroke patients in the ... Read more >>
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(4):616-622]
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Jonathan Rios, Catarina Félix, Paula Proença, Luís Malaia, Hipólito Nzwalo,
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(4):680-681]
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Avin Muthuramalingam, Vigneshvar Chandrasekaran, Karthick Subramanian,
Trifluoperazine is a conventional antipsychotic whose use has been limited with the arrival of relatively new atypical antipsychotics. However, conventional antipsychotics are utilized in the management of psychiatric illnesses comorbid with metabolic disorders such as diabetes or dyslipidemia. Though trifluoperazine has been known to cause extrapyramidal symptoms, rarely ophthalmic symptoms ... Read more >>
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(4):661-662]
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Gait disorders are common in the elderly as there are various causes of neurological and non-neurological conditions. On the other hand, most of the gait parameters do change with advancing age which is identified as age-related physiological changes in gait. At this point, the discrimination between age-related physiological changes and ... Read more >>
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(4):640-642]
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Naresh Nebhinani, Pooja Patnaik Kuppili, , Karandeep Paul,
<b>Objectives</b> Medical students are future physicians, and their attitude toward suicide attempters can impact outcome of patient management and quality of care. This study aimed to assess the effects of brief educational intervention on medical students' attitude toward suicide prevention. <b>Materials and Methods</b> The prospective study was conducted at a ... Read more >>
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(4):609-615]
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Anoop Varma, Chittur Viswanathan Gopalakrishnan, Nanda Kachare, Dilip Panikar,
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(4):668-669]
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Soumya Mukherjee, James M W Robins, Debasish Pal,
A case of resection of a large dumbbell-shaped nerve sheath tumor at L1/L2 via a direct lateral minimally invasive approach is described. The tumor was removed via a lateral, subdiaphragmatic, rib-sparing, retropleural, retroperitoneal approach. The thoracolumbar junction can be challenging via the lateral approach and to the best of our ... Read more >>
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(4):654-657]
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Aswin Pai, Ajay Hegde, Rajesh Nair, Girish Menon,
<b>Background</b> Adult primary intraventricular hemorrhage (PIVH) is a rare type of hemorrhagic stroke that is poorly understood. The study attempts to define the clinical profile, yield of diagnostic cerebral angiography, and prognosis of patients with PIVH. <b>Patients and Methods</b> Retrospective data analysis of all patients with PIVH admitted between February ... Read more >>
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(4):623-628]
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Ram Lakhan, Amit Agrawal, Manoj Sharma,
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis has greatly affected human lives across the world. Uncertainty and quarantine have been affecting people's mental health. Estimations of mental health problems are needed immediately for the better planning and management of these concerns at a global level. A rapid scoping review was conducted ... Read more >>
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(4):519-525]
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Janani Arul, Peter Prasanth Kumar Kommu, Ananthanarayanan Kasinathan, Lopamudhra Ray, Lalitha Krishnan,
<b>Objective</b> To estimate the serum zinc levels in children under the age of 5 years with febrile seizures and febrile children without seizures <b>Materials and Methods</b> In this cross-sectional study from 2017 to 2018, 40 children with febrile seizures (simple and complex) were taken as cases. Forty age- and sex-matched ... Read more >>
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(4):597-600]
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Aseem Mehra, Garima Sangwan, Sandeep Grover, Soundappan Kathirvel, Ajit Avasthi,
<b>Objective</b> This study aimed to assess the prevalence of cognitive impairment and psychiatric morbidity among the patients attending the rural noncommunicable disease clinic after controlling for various confounders (i.e., psychological morbidity, obesity, gender, level of education, duration of the illness and age). <b>Materials and Methods</b> One-hundred twenty-four patients were evaluated ... Read more >>
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(4):585-592]
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Ayush Agarwal, Pradeep S Reddy, Venugopalan Y Vishnu, Ajay Garg,
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(4):678-679]
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Sjogren's syndrome (SS) is an autoimmune disorder characterized by lymphocytic and plasma cell infiltration of exocrine glands, resulting in dry mouth and keratoconjunctivitis sicca. The clinical symptoms may range from mucosal dryness to more systemic complaints. We report a 42-year-old man presenting with rapid cognitive decline and memory impairment for ... Read more >>
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(4):658-660]
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Hansen Deng, John K Yue, Pratik Mukherjee,
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(4):676-677]
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Paramjit Singh, Kanchan Gupta, Gagandeep Singh, Sandeep Kaushal,
<b>Objective</b> Antiepileptic drug (AED) therapy remains the primary form of treatment for epilepsy, noncompliance to which can result in breakthrough seizure, emergency department visits, fractures, head injuries, and increased mortality. Various tools like self-report measures, pill-counts, medication refills, and frequency of seizures can assess compliance with varying extent. Thus, assessment ... Read more >>
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(4):636-639]
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Ramakant Yadav, Dhiraj Kumar Srivastava, Prashant Kumar Bajpai, Raj Kumar,
<b>Background</b> Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a viral disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) belonging to the coronavirus family. The primary target of SARS-CoV-2 is peripheral mucosal cells of respiratory tract. Recent days have seen few cases where virus has affected extrapulmonary organ such as nervous ... Read more >>
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(4):526-529]
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Prasad Krishnan, Nabanita Ghosh, Sayan Das,
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(4):667]
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J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(4):517-518]
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James M W Robins, Senthil K Selvanathan, Azzam Ismail, Chris Derham, Deb Pal,
A 67-year-old patient with a history of fully treated bowel carcinoma presented with a short history of unilateral lumbosacral radiculopathy. No neurological deficit was found on examination. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) demonstrated initially L4/5 foraminal narrowing that was believed to be the cause for the patient's symptoms; however, a nerve ... Read more >>
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(4):646-650]
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Prakash B Behere, Amit B Nagdive, Aniruddh P Behere, Richa Yadav, Rouchelle Fernandes,
<b>Objectives</b> Can undergraduate medical students (UGs) adopt a village model to identify mentally ill persons in an adopted village successfully? <b>Materials and Methods</b> UGs during their first year adopt a village, and each student adopts seven families in the villages. During the visit, they look after immunization, tobacco and alcohol ... Read more >>
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(4):593-596]
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Fayaz Khan, Mohamed Faisal Chevidikunnan, Raghad Ahmad Almalki, Mawada Khaled Mirdad, Khadeeja Abdulaziz Nimatallah, Shahad Al-Zahrani, Aysha Abdulmalek Alshareef,
Stiff-person syndrome (SPS) is a rare neurological disorder that causes muscle rigidity and stiffness of the trunk and proximal limb muscles, leading to movement difficulties and impaired function. Due to the rarity of the disease, studies on the benefit of rehabilitation for this disorder are quite limited. A 46-year-old female ... Read more >>
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(4):651-653]
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Shweta Modgil, Radhika Khosla, Abha Tiwari, Kaushal Sharma, Akshay Anand,
<b>Background</b> Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a rare motor neuron disease with progressive degeneration of motor neurons. Various molecules have been explored to provide the early diagnostic/prognostic tool for ALS without getting much success in the field and miscellaneous reports studied in various population. <b>Objective</b> The study was aimed to ... Read more >>
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(4):573-580]
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Cannabinoids have been found to be effective in controlling seizures and the highly purified form of cannabinoid derived for <i>Cannabis sativa</i> . Cannabidiol (CBD) is now approved for Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) and Dravet syndrome. CBD was used in a 9-year-old boy with LGS (unknown etiology) with very good results. The ... Read more >>
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(4):643-645]
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Obaida Abu, Asifur Rahman, Robert Khan, Shamsul Alam, Kanak Barua, Bipin Chaurasia,
<b>Objective</b> Gliomas, the most frequent primary brain tumors, have various grades, among which grade II, III, and IV are diffusely infiltrating astrocytomas. As therapeutic approaches and outcome differ considerably, depending on the grade of these tumors, prediction is important regarding outcome. Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) can be of help in ... Read more >>
J Neurosci Rural Pract (Journal of neurosciences in rural practice)
[2020, 11(4):581-584]
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