Nodding syndrome: 2015 International Conference Report and Gulu Accord
Nodding syndrome is a pediatric epileptic encephalopathy of apparent environmental origin that was first described in Tanzania, with recent epidemics in South Sudan and Uganda. Following a brief description of the medical geography, setting and case definition of this progressive brain disorder, we...
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| author | P.S. Spencer D.L. Kitara S.K. Gazda A.S. Winkler |
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| description | Nodding syndrome is a pediatric epileptic encephalopathy of apparent environmental origin that was first described in Tanzania, with recent epidemics in South Sudan and Uganda. Following a brief description of the medical geography, setting and case definition of this progressive brain disorder, we report recent advances relating to etiology, diagnosis and treatment described in papers given at the 2nd International Conference on Nodding Syndrome held in July 2015 in Gulu, Uganda. The target audience for this report includes: anthropologists, entomologists, epileptologists, health care workers, helminthologists, medical researchers, neuroepidemiologists, neurologists, neuroscientists, neuropathologists, nurses, nutritional scientists, primary health care physicians, psychiatrists, public health practitioners, toxicologists, and virologists. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-58b3749e8c464747b70fe7c744a5fdf92022-12-22T02:45:31ZengElseviereNeurologicalSci2405-65022016-06-013C808310.1016/j.ensci.2015.11.001Nodding syndrome: 2015 International Conference Report and Gulu AccordP.S. Spencer0D.L. Kitara1S.K. Gazda2A.S. Winkler3Department of Neurology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97201, USADepartment of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Gulu University, Gulu, UgandaNeurology Institute of San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78231, USADepartment of Neurology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, 81675 Munich, GermanyNodding syndrome is a pediatric epileptic encephalopathy of apparent environmental origin that was first described in Tanzania, with recent epidemics in South Sudan and Uganda. Following a brief description of the medical geography, setting and case definition of this progressive brain disorder, we report recent advances relating to etiology, diagnosis and treatment described in papers given at the 2nd International Conference on Nodding Syndrome held in July 2015 in Gulu, Uganda. The target audience for this report includes: anthropologists, entomologists, epileptologists, health care workers, helminthologists, medical researchers, neuroepidemiologists, neurologists, neuroscientists, neuropathologists, nurses, nutritional scientists, primary health care physicians, psychiatrists, public health practitioners, toxicologists, and virologists.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405650215000167Nodding syndromeEpilepsyTropical neurology |
| spellingShingle | P.S. Spencer D.L. Kitara S.K. Gazda A.S. Winkler Nodding syndrome: 2015 International Conference Report and Gulu Accord eNeurologicalSci Nodding syndrome Epilepsy Tropical neurology |
| title | Nodding syndrome: 2015 International Conference Report and Gulu Accord |
| title_full | Nodding syndrome: 2015 International Conference Report and Gulu Accord |
| title_fullStr | Nodding syndrome: 2015 International Conference Report and Gulu Accord |
| title_full_unstemmed | Nodding syndrome: 2015 International Conference Report and Gulu Accord |
| title_short | Nodding syndrome: 2015 International Conference Report and Gulu Accord |
| title_sort | nodding syndrome 2015 international conference report and gulu accord |
| topic | Nodding syndrome Epilepsy Tropical neurology |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405650215000167 |
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