Dr. Amitabha Ghosh
Dr. Amitabha Ghosh
Experience :
36 Years
Education :
MBBS MD MRCP CCST FRCP FRCP
Specialization :
Neurosurgery
Department :
Hospital :
Introduction
Special Interests:
- Memory disorders and other disorders of cognition; Alzheimer's disease;
- Frontemporal dementia;
- Parkinsonism and related disorders;
- Stroke (and its effects on cognition)
Fellowships and Memberships
- Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London
- Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
- Member, World Federation of Neurology - Research Group on Aphasia and Cognitive Disorders
- Member, Asian Society against Dementia
- CME Convener, Association of Neuroscientists of Eastern India
- Member, American Academy of Neurology
- Member, Executive Committee, Alzheimer's and Related Disorders Society of India
- Member, IAN Subsection on Cognitive Neurology
Awards and Achievements
- Best Audit Award in the Northwest of England Ophthamology audit Meeting, UK, 2000.
- Silver Casket in Pathology and Microbiology.
- National Science Talent Search Scholarship, Government of India.
Unique Contribution
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Ghosh A. Endocrine, metabolic, nutritional and toxic disorders leading to dementia ANN Ind Acad Neurol 2010;13:S63-S68
Research:
- Principal Investigator of the country's 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.
- 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.
- My team and I are also studying behavioural and cognitive peculiarities in frontotemporal dementia in Indian patients. Wer have already described variations that differ from those described in the international literature.
Ongoing Research:
- Principal Investigator of the country's 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.
- Co-Principal Investigator for the development of a comprehensive neuropsychological toolbox for Indian patients. This work, commissioned by the Neurology Task Force, ICMR, has been successfully concluded.
- 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 lilterature.