Brain Degeneration and Dementia in Sub-Saharan Africa

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4939-4497-2
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 5575 g

Stemming from a 2012 conference entitled Brain Degenerations and Emerging Mental Health Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa, this book is aimed at both the general practitioner interested in CNS disorders, and the specialist who would like to know more about CNS pathology in Africa. By employing a broad defi nition of what brain degeneration means, the authors are able to touch upon everything from dementias and CNS malignancy to traumatic brain injury and CNS infective processes.

This book draws from and builds upon the original conference presentations, and incorporates the most up-to-date science behind brain degeneration as well as actual case reports. Each of the book’s six sections off er the reader a deeper understanding of brain degeneration as it exists in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jacobson, Stanley

Musisi, Seggane

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Alzheimer und Demenz
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Neurowissenschaften, Kognitionswissenschaft
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Neurologie, Klinische Neurowissenschaft
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Forward.- Preface.- The Penn ADCC: Integrating Neurodegenerative Disease Research Across Disciplines, Conditions, and Population Groups.- Anatomy of Normal and Degenerative Changes in the Brain.- A 24-Hour Walk Through Mulago National Referral Hospital, Uganda: What Kind of In-patients Do You See?.- HIV-Associated Cognitive Impairment in Sub-Saharan Africa.- Vitamin Deficiencies and Neuropsychiatric Disorders in Sub-Saharan Africa.- Environmental Toxins as Causes of Brain Degeneration in Sub-Saharan Africa.- Childhood Threats to Adult Cognition in Sub-saharan Africa: Malaria, Anemia, Stunting, Enteric Enteropathy, and the Microbiome of Malnutrition.- Strokes as Seein in Mulago Hospital, Uganda.- Challenges of Diagnosis and Treatment of Epilepsy at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala, Uganda.- Psychiatric Aspects of HIV infection in Sub-Saharan Africa.- Children with Neurodegenerative Development Disorders in Uganda.- Cognitive Outcome of Malaria and HIV Infection in Children in Sub-Saharan Africa.- Acquired Brain Injury in Children in Sub-Saharan Africa.- Review of Reasons for Patients to Receive A CT of the Head and Neck Region in Uganda in 2011-2012.- CT Findings in the Brain of Adult Patients with HIV/AIDS.- Neuropsychological Cases in a Low-Income National Referral Hospital.- A Case of Alzheimer's Dementia in Uganda.- A Case Report of Mania and Glioma.- Secondary Mania of HIV/AIDS.- Case Presentation of Epilepsy Secondary to Cerebral Malaria.- Caring for the Elderly with Dementia in Africa.

Über Autor(innen)

Stanley Jacobson PhD, is Professor of Anatomy & Cellular Biology and Integrated Physiology and Pathobiology at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, MA. He is the author of over 100 papers on the circuitry within the central nervous system and co-author of a number of neuroscience textbooks. He is also a Fulbright Scholar at Makerere University in Kampala Uganda.

Seggane Musisi, MBChB, FRCP(C) , D. Psych (Toronto) is Professor and former Chief of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine of Makerere University College of Health Sciences in Kampala, Uganda. He has had wide research and clinical experience in Liaison Psychiatry, Psychiatric Intensive Care, HIV-Psychiatry, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as well as the psychiatry of old age. Dr Musisi is the author of the highly popular book “Psychiatric Problems of HIV/AIDS and Their Management in Africa,” and the Editor In Chief of ‘The African Journal of Traumatic Stress.’ He is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including the prestigious Fulbright New Century Scholar award.