Brain Degeneration and Dementia in Sub-Saharan Africa

The proposed book is based on the workshop "Brain Degenerations and Emerging Mental Health Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa" which was held in Kampala, Uganda, on February 1-3, 2012. The contributors will present snapshots of dementia as well as pediatric and adult brain damage within a specifically African context. Topics addressed include, but are not limited to, HIV/AIDS, malaria, nutritional and vitamin deficiencies, environmental toxicity and Alzheimer's Disease. The proposal has been approved by the editors of the Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology for inclusion in the series.

Stanley Jacobson PhD, is Professor of Anatomy & Cellular Biology and Integrated Physiology and Pathobiology at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, MA. He is the author of over 100 papers on the circuitry within the central nervous system and co-author of a number of neuroscience textbooks. He is also a Fulbright Scholar at Makerere University in Kampala Uganda.

Seggane Musisi, MBChB, FRCP(C) , D. Psych (Toronto) is Professor and former Chief of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine of Makerere University College of Health Sciences in Kampala, Uganda. He has had wide research and clinical experience in Liaison Psychiatry, Psychiatric Intensive Care, HIV-Psychiatry, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as well as the psychiatry of old age. Dr Musisi is the author of the highly popular book “Psychiatric Problems of HIV/AIDS and Their Management in Africa,” and the Editor In Chief of ‘The African Journal of Traumatic Stress.’ He is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including the prestigious Fulbright New Century Scholar award.