Blog - Dr. Swayam Prakash

30-07-2024

Multiple Sclerosis: A Smouldering Disease

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neurological condition that affects approximately 2.8 million people worldwide. MS is a complex disease that affects the central nervous system, which includes the brain, spinal cord, and optic nerves.

25-07-2024

Multiple Sclerosis (MS)

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is not an uncommon disease of the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord). Today, 2.8 million people around the world have MS.

24-07-2024

Myasthenia Gravis

Myasthenia gravis is an acquired organ specific autoimmune disorder of neuromuscular transmission resulting from antibodies directed against the Acetylcholine receptor (AChR), Muscle specific tyrosine kinase (MuSK) and Lipoprotein related protein 4 (LRP4)

23-07-2024

Dementia or Neurocognitive Disorders

The term Dementia is derived from Latin stock, meaning without mind. According to DSM fourth edition, text revision, dementia refers to multiple cognitive deficits that involves memory impairment, and one or more of the following

30-05-2024

World MS Day - 2024

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an immune mediated disorder where the immune system mistakenly attacks the myelin sheath, the protective covering of nerve fibres in the central nervous system.

01-07-2021

Diary of a small town Neurologist

COVID-19 is perhaps the greatest disaster of all time, reported as a cluster of forty odd cases from Wuhan, China in December 2019 which culminated into a pandemic by March 2020, as declared by the WHO.

11-04-2021

World Parkinson's Day

World Parkinson’s Day is celebrated each year on April 11 in the honour of James Parkinson, a great neurologist, researcher and activist, who was born on this date in the year 1755.

28-02-2021

Rare Disease

There is no precise definition of RARE DISEASE. WHO defines a disease to be rare if it affects 1 or less per 1000 population. However, European definition for rare disease is, when it affects less than 1 in 2000 people.