Main description:

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.

Contents:

BRAIN DEGENERATION AND DEMENTIA IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: THE CASE OF UGANDA

Seggane Musisi and Stanley Jacobson, editors

Foreword: Allan Ropper

Preface: Seggane Musisi & Stanley Jacobson

SECTION I: OVERVIEW OF BRAIN DEGENERATIONS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

1: John Trojanowski, Steven E. Arnold, Jason H. Karlawish, Sharon X. Xie, & Vivianna Van Deerlin - The Penn ADCC: Integrating Neurodegenerative Disease Research Across Disciplines, Conditions, and Population Groups

2: Samuel S. Giles, Rosemary Byanyima, & Stanley Jacobson - Anatomy of Normal and Degenerative Changes in the Brain

3: Nazarius Mbona Tumwesigye, Jacinto Amandua, David Lubogo, & Victoria Masembe - A 24-Hour Walk Through Mulago National Referral Hospital, Uganda: What Kind of In-patients Do You See?

SECTION II: SELECTED CAUSES OF BRAIN DEGENERATION IN UGANDA.

4: Noeline Nakasujja - HIV-Associated Cognitive Impairment in Sub-Saharan Africa

5: Michael Ssonko - Vitamin Deficiencies and Neuropsychiatric Disorders in Sub-Saharan Africa

6: Tom H.A.M. Olewe - Environmental Toxins as Causes of Brain Degeneration in Sub-Saharan Africa

7: Jeffrey K. Griffiths & Joyce Kikafunda - Childhood Threats to Adult Cognition in sub-Saharan Africa: Malaria, Anemia, Stunting, Enteric Enteropathy, and the Microbiome of Malnutrition

8: Stephen Muwonge Matovu & Robert Mukisa- Strokes as Seen in Mulago Hospital, Uganda

9: Challenges of Diagnosis and Treatment of Epilepsy at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala, Uganda - Edward Ddumba

10: Psychiatric Aspects of HIV infection in Sub-Saharan Africa - Etheldreda Nakimuli-Mpungu

SECTION III: PEDIATRIC BRAIN DEGENERATIONS IN UGANDA

11: Angelina Kakooza-Mwesige & Dirk M. Dhossche - Children with Neurodegenerative Development Disorders in Uganda

12: Paul Bangirana - Cognitive Outcome of Malaria and HIV Infection in Children in Sub-Saharan Africa

13: Richard Idro - Acquired Brain Injury in Children in Sub-Saharan Africa

SECTION IV: TESTING AND INVESTIGATING BRAIN DEGENERATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: THE CASE OF UGANDA

14: Stanley Jacobson, Tammy Hsieh, Nathan Yuen, Samuel Giles, Rosemary Byanyima - Review of Reasons for Patients to Receive A CT of the Head and Neck Region in Uganda in 2011-2012

15: Rosemary Byanyima - CT Findings in the Brain of Adult Patients with HIV/AIDS

16: Janet Nakigudde - Neuropsychological Cases in a Low-Income National Referral Hospital

SECTION V: BIOLOGICAL, NEUROLOGICAL, AND PSYCHIATRIC FINDINGS: CASE REPORTS OF BRAIN DEGENERATIONS AT MULAGO HOSPITAL, UGANDA

17: Justine Diana Namuli - A Case of Alzheimer's Dementia in Uganda

18: Nolbert Gumisiriza - A Case Report of Mania and Glioma

19: Emmanuel Kiiza Mwesiga - Secondary Mania of HIV/AIDS

20: Harriet Nakuya - Case Presentation of Epilepsy Secondary to Cerebral Malaria

SECTION VI: THE BURDEN AND CARE OF PATIENTS WITH DEMENTIA IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA.

21: Seggane Musisi - Caring for the Elderly with Dementia in Africa