Department of Neurology


Location:

Department 1st floor, CT Scan Building
Neurophysiology Laboratory (EMG/EEG) Room No 133, first floor, OPD Building
Outpatient Services OPD 17, first floor, OPD Building
Wards Ward 18 (Male), 7th floor (OPD Building) & Ward 17 (Female) Main Hospital Building. Will be shifted to 7th floor OPD Building


History:

The department of Neurology was set up in 1963 and a full-fledged neuroscience centre was established in 1983. The department made significant strides forward since then in rendering services to patients with neurological disorders. Currently facilities like Long-Term Video EEG and EMG-Nerve Conduction, Evoked potentials are provided. Today it has evolved into a full-fledged neurological centre equipped with latest diagnostic facilities. It is one of the leading academic neurological centers in Mumbai. The Department is involved in patient care, education and research activities.


Current Activities:

OPD Services:
Day OPD Timing
Monday Epilepsy 8.00 am to 11.30 am
Tuesday Neurology (New Cases) 8.00 am to 11.30 am
Thursday Neurology OPD (Follow-Up) 8.00 am to 11.30 am
Friday Neurorehabilitation 8.00 am to 11.00 am

Total outpatient attendance is about 2000 per year.


Social Rehabilitation:
The department has a medical social worker to help out in the social rehabilitation of patients with neurological disorders & epilepsy.

Stroke Registry:
The department has a stroke registry for the stroke data since 1990.

Dementia (Memory Clinic) - Room No. 132 OPD Building:
A NIH funded project dealing with the patients of Dementia, done in collaboration with the Psychiatry and Pathology Department. It is a Joint Indo-US (Mt. Sinai) collaborative project.

Indoor Services:
The unit has 25 beds in the hospital building for men and women. The total indoor admissions are about 500 per annum.

Referral Service:
Patients are referred from within the hospital from Medicine, Paediatrics, Orthopaedics, Neuro surgery. In addition large numbers of patients are referred from other teaching institutes in the city, suburbs and adjoining cities and states. Patients are referred for neurology, epilepsy, stroke, Dementia consultations. Patients are also referred for neurophysiology investigations like EMG Nerve conduction and Video EEG monitoring.


Special Patient Care Facilities:

Electroencephalography (EEG) under way
Electroencephalography (EEG)
under way		    
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    		•  Clinical Neurophysiology:
    The Neurology Department has acquired a 44 channel Nicolet Viasys VEEG machine that has facility to record long term Video EEG. The VEEG recording has improved the diagnosis of Epilepsy. Around 1000 EEG records were done in the year 2008 from January to December. VEEG is extremely useful for diagnosis of Epileptic and Non-epileptic seizures. For epilepsies VEEG is useful in the correct classification of seizures and epilepsy syndrome. The ictal EEG record is essential for localizing the epileptogenic zone. This is an essential part of pre surgical evaluation for Epilepsy Surgery. The Care of epilepsy patients has significantly improved with this facility.

    Equipments:

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    		•  EEG:
    Nicolet One n EEG, multimodality and Video EEG, Viasys. 40 channel with facility for evoked potentials and polysomnography.
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    		•  EMG:
    Nicolet Viking Quest Occular Electro Physiological Testing System with facility of auditory stimulator and visual evoked potentials.



  • You can contact the Department of Neurology at nairneuro@hotmail.com


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