Dr Amitabha Ghosh
Neurologist
Neurology
About
Dr. Amitabha Ghosh is one of the best neurologists in Kolkata with around three decades of experience. He specialises in epilepsy, vascular brain diseases, electroencephalogram, Parkinsons Disease, and Vagus Nerve Stimulation. His other areas of interest are frontotemporal dementia, memory disorders and other disorders of cognition like Alzheimers Disease, and stroke.
This highly qualified doctor has received several prestigious awards such as the Best Audit Award in the Northwest of England Ophthalmology Audit Meeting, United Kingdom (2000), National Science Talent Search Scholarship from the Government of India and Silver Casket in Pathology and Microbiology.
Dr. Amitabha is an examiner for MRCP (UK) Part 2 Clinical Examination(Paces) and peer reviewer for several international journals on neurology. He is also a Task force member of the Cognitive Science Research Initiative (CSRI) in the Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi.
Awards
- - Best Audit Award in the Northwest of England Ophthamology Audit Meeting, UK (2000)
- - National Science Talent Search Scholarship from the Government of India
- - Silver Casket in Pathology and Microbiology
Treatments / Specialities
- - Epilepsy Treatment
- - Treatment of Vascular Brain Diseases
- - Electroencephalogram
- - Parkinsons Disease Treatment
- - Vagus Nerve Stimulation
- - Treatment of Frontemporal Dementia
- - Alzheimers Disease Treatment
- - Stroke Treatmen
Membership
- - World Federation of Neurology - Research Group on Aphasia and Cognitive Disorders
- - Asian Society against Dementia
- - Association of Neuroscientists of Eastern India
- - American Academy of Neurology
- - Alzheimers and Related Disorders Society of India
- - AN Subsection on Cognitive Neurology
Paper Published
- Research: 1. Principal Investigator of the countrys first multi-centric study on the molecular characterization of frontotemporal lobar degeneration and related disorders. This study, with a research grant from the Indian Council for Medical Research(ICMR), has been successfully concluded.
- 2. Co-Principal Investigaror for the development of a comprehensive neuropsychological tool box for Indian patients. This work, commissioned by the Neurology Task Force, ICMR , Has been successfully concluded.
- 3. My team and I are also studying behavioural and cognitive peculiarities in frontotemporal dementia in Indian patients. We have already described variations that differ from those described in the international literature.
- Publications: 1. Mukherjee O, Das G, Sen S, Dutt A, Alladi S, Ghosh A,C9orf72 mutations may be rare in frontotemporal lobar degeneration patients in India. Amyotrophh Lateral Scler Frontotemporal Degener 2015 Jan-Feb; 17(1-2):151-3. Epub 2015 Oct 14 PubMed PMID: 26465714. doi:10.3109/21678421.2015.1074706
- 2. Fukuhara R, Ghosh A, Fuh JL, Dominguez JC, Ong A, Dutt A, Liu YC, Tanaka H, Ikeda M.Family history of frontotemporal lobar degeneration in Asia - an international multi-center research. Int Psychogeriatrics 2014; 23:1-5
- 3. Ghosh A, Dutt A, Bhargava P, Rao PS, Using the revised diagnostic criteria for frontotemporal dementia in India: evidence of an advanced and florid disease. Plos ONE 2013; 8(4): e60999. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0060999
- 4. Ghosh A, Dutt A, Bhargava P, Snowden J, Environmental dependecy behaviour in frontotemporal dementia:have we been underrating them? J Neurol 2013; 260:861-868; doi:10.1007/s00415-012-6722-0
- 5. Das G, Sadhukhan T, Sadhukhan D, Biswas A, Pal S,Ghosh A, Das SK, Ray K, Ray J, Genetic study on frontotemporal lobar degeneration cases of India. Parkinnsonism Relat Disord 2013; 19(4):487-489. doi; 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2012.11.015
- 6. Ghosh A. Endocrine, metabolic, nutritional and toxic disorders leading to dementia ANN Ind Acad Neurol 2010;13:S63-S68
