Brain Degeneration and Dementia in Sub-Saharan Africa

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

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.