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VOLUME 10, NUMBER 2, JAN – MARCH 2015

PAKISTAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES

 

Contents

PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS AND HUMAN EMOTIONS

Riffat Moazam Zaman

Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Aga Khan University, Karachi. Email: riffat.moazam-zaman@aku.edu

JOURNEY OVER FOUR DECADES TO DISCOVER NEW DEFINITIONS OF STROKE AND TIA FOR 21ST CENTURY: ARE WE READY FOR THE CHANGE?

Muhammad Athar Javed

FRCP, Associate Professor Neurology, King Edward Medical University,Lahore

DETERMINATION OF THE FACTORS LEADING TO NONCOMPLIANCE WITH ANTIEPILEPTIC DRUG

Abdul Haz, Naila Naeem Shahbaz, Jai perkash, Muslim Ali Lakhair

Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi

EFFICACY OF MEMANTINE ON COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS OF PATIENTS WITH MODERATE VASCULAR DEMENTIA

Dr Saima Nazish,Dr Bashir A Soomro,Dr Shafaq Alvi

Dr Saima Nazish,Dr Bashir A Soomro,Dr Shafaq Alvi Neurology section, Department of Medicine. Ziauddin university hospital Karachi.

POST STROKE DEMENTIA AND ITS PUTATIVE RISK FACTORS: A HOSPITAL-BASED STUDY

Iranmanesh F1, Sheykholeslami NZ2, Rahimdel A3, Gadari F4, Vazirinajad, R5, Syedyazdi F5

1Professor of Neurology, Neurology Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran.

2Associate Professor of Infection Disease, Qum University of Medical Sciences, Qum, Iran.

3Assistant Professor of Neurology, Yazd University of Medical Sciences, Yazd Iran.

4Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran.

5Associate professor of Epidemiology, Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences, Rafsanjan, Iran.

6Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences, Rafsanjan, Iran.

RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME IN PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS

Shaista A. Siddiqi1, Javeria Rauf2, Anita Haroon3, Bilal Ahmed2, Saera Suhail Kidwai1 and Lubna Nazir1

1Department of Medicine, Jinnah Medical College Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

2Department of Medicine, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi

3Department of Medicine, Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Centre, Karachi

UNDER RECOGNIZED ENTITY: CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DEMYELINATING POLYNEUROPATHY WITH LUPUS

Ali Zohair Nomani,Haris Majid Rajput, Rao Sohail Yasin Khan, Mansoor Iqbal, Zakir Jan, Uzma Jamil, Mazhar Badshah, Muhammad Irshad

Department of Neurology, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Pakistan

EIGHT-AND-HALF SYNDROME: A RARE NEURO-OPHTHALMIC SYNDROME “POSSIBLE NINE SYNDROME”

Dr. Muslim Ali Lakhiar, Dr. Shaheen Ahmed Mughal

A 2 ½ YEARS OLD BOY WITH SQUINT AND SPEECH LOSS

Shaila Ali, Zia ur Rehman, Tipu Sultan

The Children Hospital & Institute of Child Health, Lahore.

SPECTRUM OF NEUROMUSCULAR INJURIES IN VICTIMS OF BOMB BLASTS

Dureshahwar Kanwar, Ambreen Iqrar, Zaitoon Shivji and Sara Khan

Department of Neurology, The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

AN ODE TO NEUROLOGY

Dr. Marina Wazir,

Postgraduate Trainee General Medicine, Shifa International Hospital, H-8/4, Islamabad.

THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR RESEARCH ON RARE GENETIC NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS

Nadir A Syed (South City,Karachi), Farwa Ali (South City Hospital, Karachi), Khalid Sher (JPMC, Karachi)
Amer Ikram (Doctors Hospital, Lahore), Bashir Soomro (Ziauddin, Karachi), Naila Shahbaz (DUHS, Karachi) Mughis Sheerani (AKU, Karachi), Sarwar Jamil (AKU, Karachi), Ahsan Numan (services Hospital, Lahore) Manzoor Lakhair (LUMS, Jamshoro), Irshad Awan (PIMS, Islamabad), Saleem Barech (BMC, Quetta) Haroon Basheer (Pakistan Parkinson’s Society).

ADVISOR’S:

Ronald Peffer (USA), Zeba Vanek (USA), Jawwad Bajwa (KSA), Mustafa Saad Siddiqui (USA), Daniel Truong (USA)

NATIONAL GUIDELINES FOR DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE IN PAKISTAN

Nadir A Syed (South City,Karachi), Farwa Ali (South City Hospital, Karachi), Khalid Sher (JPMC, Karachi) Amer Ikram (Doctors Hospital, Lahore), Bashir Soomro (Ziauddin, Karachi), Naila Shahbaz (DUHS, Karachi) Mughis Sheerani (AKU, Karachi), Sarwar Jamil (AKU, Karachi), Ahsan Numan (services Hospital, Lahore) Manzoor Lakhair (LUMS, Jamshoro), Irshad Awan (PIMS, Islamabad), Saleem Barech (BMC, Quetta) Haroon Basheer (Pakistan Parkinson’s Society).

ADVISOR’S:

Ronald Peffer (USA), Zeba Vanek (USA), Jawwad Bajwa (KSA), Mustafa Saad Siddiqui (USA), Daniel Truong (USA)

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