@article{19773,
  keywords = {Arboviruses, Ataxia, Bacterial Infections, Central Nervous System, Deficiency, Diet, Disease, Encephalitis, Enterovirus, Etiology, India, Infection, Lathyrism, leprosy, Leucine, Multiple Sclerosis, Nervous System, Neurology, Paraplegia, Pellagra, Poliomyelitis, Population, Prevalence, Prognosis, Sclerosis, Syndrome, Tuberculosis, Viruses},
  author = {Bharucha E P},
  title = {Neurology in India},
  abstract = {A brief review of the commoner neurological disorders encountered in India is presented. Although large sections of the population subsist on borderline diets, nutritional deficiencies of the nervous system are not commonly seen, except pellagra in Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh, where the diet of maize and millet respectively has a high leucine content. Among the viruses, enterovirus infection is most prevalent, the commonest enterovirus being poliomyelitis. Of the arboviruses, Japanese B encephalitis has been reported from the south and from Calcutta. Tuberculosis of the central nervous system in its various forms and leprosy constitute the major chronic bacterial infections. A study of cerebrovascular disease shows that it has a similar prevalence rate and predisposing factors and prognosis to its counterpart in the West. However, an unusual feature is the frequency with which strokes occur in the young due to nonembolic and nonhemorrhagic cerebrovascular disease. Some of these are a result of the aortic arch syndrome which is thought to have an infective, allergic, or degenerative etiology. Paraplegias in India are mainly of compressive origin. Among the system degenerations, the hereditary ataxias and motor neurone disease are not uncommon. Multiple sclerosis including Devic's neuromyelitis optica is distinctly rare but convincing cases have been reported. Fluorosis and lathyrism are two of the preventable causes of paraplegia. (50 references.)},
  year = {1974},
  journal = {Journal of Neurology},
  volume = {208},
  pages = {81 - 93},
  month = {1974///},
  url = {http://www.scopus.com/scopus/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0016261319&partnerID=40&rel=R6.0.0},
  note = {Export Date: 17 April 2007 Source: Scopus},
  language = {eng},
}