Brain Degeneration and Dementia in Sub-Saharan Africa

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.

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